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tracklayer

NOUN
  1. a workman who lays and repairs railroad tracks

How To Use tracklayer In A Sentence

  • Completed and crossed by the tracklayers in November 1866, it was twenty-three hundred feet long.
  • Relief tracklayers were standing by but the first crew was so proud of their work that a rest was not requested.
  • At Ogallala, Nebraska, milepost 342, on May 27, 1867, they swooped down on the tracklayers while Dodge and government inspectors were present.
  • About an hour later, a construction train arrived to unload cheerful gangs of tracklayers and graders, and then pulled away again.
  • The tracklayers moved forward at a furious pace, often laying down two to three miles of new rail a day, sometimes more.
  • Then the tracklayers came in, grabbing rails out of horse-drawn carts.
  • All the tracklayers were Caucasians and the Chinese simply looked on and cheered their favorite crew.
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