Sentence examples for trainman from inspiring English sources
noun
A person who works on a railway / railroad.
"I am an American citizen," he told the trainman.
Bad luck for a trainman, even on the B.R.T. His trouble was that he liked to refuse time.
A trainman walking by muttered something about "all we need now is a juke box".
One day she got lost on a train and a kind trainman helped her find her way.
In about a minute, a heavy, white-haired old woman surged into our eyelever...conductor & trainman escorted her to a seat.
How did these employees - a mechanical engineer and a trainman - know their company was on the block?
John Kroll, a slim man with short strawberry-blond hair and a clipped mustache, and Metro-North's chief rail-traffic controller, was one of the trainmen on hand to explain the somewhat baffling exhibit.
Two men in overalls, evidently trainmen of some kind, were trudging through the Penn Station arcade.
As the last note died away, a… Two men in overalls, evidently trainmen of some kind, were trudging through the Penn Station arcade.
The trainmen and conductors wanted to work five days a week, instead of six, at no reduction in wages, and the company said that any five-day week would have to be accompanied by a pay cut.
"Timid travelers may ask questions with no fear of being rebuffed by hurrying trainmen, or imposed upon by hotel runners, chauffeurs or others in blue uniforms," a promotional brochure boasted.
