How To Use Brakeman In A Sentence
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The fireman and brakeman were blown out of the cab, and both died a few days later.
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Jeff even knew all of the railroad yards south of San Francisco where Cassady was a train brakeman.
Trackin' Neal Cassady In San Miguel de Allende
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To brake, the gripman releases the cable and the brakeman brakes.
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Her position in the two-man team is piloting the bobsleigh, in the front, while her sister acts as the brakeman.
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Windows all across (with wipers) will justify a middle seat for the brakeman, but there's a sandbox there too for the flues.
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The brakeman was a good fellow, and one and all encouraged him in the hope that he would pull through.
The Canadian Elocutionist
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We got on our engine and the head brakeman took us over to the stock pens and picked up four cars of sheep and took us back in the yard to No. 7 track and coupled us up to forty-seven more cars of sheep and cattle, and Smyers, trainmaster for the A.,
Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America
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Spitting on his hands he called a brakeman with a transom hook out of the sleeper, to fish with, they rolled up their trousers and waded in, after telling a porter to bring a blanket to put the pieces in.
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Mazzi was the brakeman for the USA world bobsledding team that won the four-man national bobsledding championship at Lake Placid.
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A Reserve environmental engineer officer, he is the brakeman for the top-ranked four-man sled team in the world.
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The conductor and brakeman in the caboose were forgotten about!
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She made the team as a brakeman, a person who helps push the sled and then, on the way down the hill, helps balance it to keep it from hitting the walls.
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Aside from the two conductors and two tail-end brakemen riding in the cabooses there was an engineer and fireman on each of the four steam locomotives and a head-end brakeman on the assist engines.
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The brakeman would still have been on the engine for a safety lookout as well as his train-related duties.
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However, if cars, trucks and buses can slowly but safely maneuver downtown during festivals, Metro's trains ought to be able to get through, even if they have to be preceded by a lantern-waving brakeman on foot.
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Will Valerie Fleming, a former sprinter and javelin thrower and current brakeman for bobsled driver (and former pro soccer player) Shauna Rohbock, get her Olympic medal on the track at Cesana Pariol?
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He was the brakeman for the USA world bobsledding team that won the four-man national bobsledding championship at Lake Placid.
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Guadalajara godfathers authorized a push training track, 70 meters from start to stopping place, a rude barricade, a stack of old auto tires in case the brakeman is caught napping.
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Smith, a veteran of one Europa Cup and world cup season (with a best of 8th place in Cortina in 2003) is the brakeman in the team and is confident he can put the brakes on Britain's rivals this season.
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The 32-year-old Chicago, Ill. native was also the brakeman on this year's two-man bobsled team in which he paired with driver Todd Hays.
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Oh, Joe's got plenty of nerve -- of the right sort!" called a brakeman, and Joe, nodding at him, recognized a railroad acquaintance who had been present at some of the town ball games.
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With an eye toward the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin, Italy, Chelios wants to become a bobsledding brakeman - for Greece.
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All aboard!" called a brakeman, and the Comet Film Company, bag and baggage, started for the train that was to take them to new scenes of activity.
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You will see it on my ticket if you look in your wallet;" but this, of course, the magnate refused to do, and when another hoot of the whistle announced the engineer's impatience he called a brakeman, saying:
Lorimer of the Northwest
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It was the junior brakeman's ‘duties’ to stock up the van with coke for the stove and to wash the floor to the satisfaction of his conductor.
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With an eye toward the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin, Italy, he wants to become a bobsledding brakeman - for Greece.
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“Chicago!” called the brakeman, drawing the word out long.
Sister Carrie
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No one boarded the train while we 4 passengers, the conductor, engineer, and brakeman held a 10-minute conversation on the platform.
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In the 1970's the two-way radio made a big difference in making up trains and the brakeman were no longer giving signals with lanterns and lighted fuzees.
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The conductor and brakeman in the caboose were forgotten about!
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No room for brakeman was needed since he rode in a compartment atop the tender.
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A comfortably cushioned seat is also provided for the head-end brakeman in the rear of the fireman's seat.
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Being a brakeman in the days before the automatic airbrake was pretty dangerous work, but this guy's blues don't seem too bad: after all, he'll be in New Orleans eating dinner and picking up strange women by nightfall.
The 9513
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I cried out, while the conductor and brakeman and station-agent all called and holloed and clamored for Duncan to hurry.
The Prairie Wife
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The business was very dull and the company did not need any engineers and Mr. Kishhammer, the trainmaster, gave me a job as brakeman,
Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America
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Aside from the two conductors and two tail-end brakemen riding in the cabooses there was an engineer and fireman on each of the four steam locomotives and a head-end brakeman on the assist engines.
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But he had a couple of defects -- not large defects, but they seemed large when flung against the background of his profoundly religious character: he drank a good deal, and he could outswear a brakeman.
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