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

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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.

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

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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 necessary, but in the language of Koheleth, there is a time to apply the brake and there is a time to abstain from applying the brake.

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