trackman
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The coaches in Tacoma have charted almost everything with the aid of trackman and rapsodo as well.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 12, 2020
Kenneth started as a trackman, replacing heavy wooden ties.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2016
James Pilkington, 78, of Manhattan, oldtime policeman, Civil War veteran, contractor, boxer, wrestler, trapshooter, sculler, oarsman, bowler, trackman; of pneumonia; in Manhattan.
From Time Magazine Archive
In five previous appearances in a nationwide tour for the benefit of the Finnish Relief Fund, he had looked like an average U. S. trackman.
From Time Magazine Archive
Went from trackman to machinist's helper and boilermaker's helper.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 by Work Projects Administration
While junketing U.S. trackmen were shellacking their Latin neighbors, a band of talented homebodies put on quite a show of their own.
From Time Magazine Archive
So happy was one of the world's greatest trackmen to be free of politics that he lined up his family, down to youngest daughter Denise, 14 months, for a joyous group portrait on the blocks.
From Time Magazine Archive
So to start clean he left Manhattan, went to the Y. M. C. A. College in Springfield, Mass., where he talked to trackmen, wrestlers, footballers.
From Time Magazine Archive
When winter comes, trackmen pull on flannel drawers, pound away on wooden tracks, move inside to practice only when snow covers the boards.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was Big Tony, the Italian who had led the trouble amongst the trackmen at Bixton two years back, and with whom he had had the thrilling encounter at the old brick-yard.
From The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity by Francis Lovell Coombs
