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In general, the members of Luna's union tend to be men with less seniority than the members of the older, more exclusive Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Named the Conductors' Brotherhood at its founding in 1868, the union added Brakemen to its handle only a decade ago.

From Time Magazine Archive

Brakemen used to be train-top daredevils who leaped from car to car, setting hand brakes at each stop.

From Time Magazine Archive

Biggest by far of the operating unions, it was founded as the Brotherhood of Railroad Brakemen in 1883 by eight railroaders meeting in an Albany & Susquehanna caboose at Oneonta, N.Y.

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Brakemen are prosaic men enough, no doubt, in the ordinary sense, but they love a railroad as Shakespeare loved a sonnet.

From The Voice of the Machines An Introduction to the Twentieth Century by Lee, Gerald Stanley