signalman

“I was choked up,” said Matthew Di Gioia, 25, who works as an Amtrak signalman.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

Tarr followed with “The Man From London,” which he and Krasznahorkai adapted from a novel by Georges Simenon, about a seaside railway signalman who confronts a moral quandary involving a murder mystery.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026

Jacobs was 17 when he joined the Navy in November 1944, after D-Day, and became a Navy signalman.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2024

The first lady was one of those kids; she’s the daughter of a Navy signalman.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 26, 2023

They watch the signalman; he stands with one arm aloft, and they lower away until that arm falls suddenly by his side.

From The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure by Gordon Stables

The workers include locomotive engineers, machinists, electricians and signalmen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026

The Association of American Railroads trade group said in a statement that the new dispatcher and signalmen rules aren’t likely to make a significant improvement in safety because the railroads already train their employees.

From Seattle Times ● May 20, 2024

And signalmen who maintain signals and warnings at rail crossings have bigger territories to cover, making it harder to keep up with preventative maintenance.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 1, 2023

While the signalmen responsible for the crash at Quintinshill were both jailed, they served just over a year in prison and were reemployed in the railways after their release.

From BBC ● May 23, 2015

No submarines attacked us and we were kept busy on board practicing our code and all the other skills we needed as signalmen.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac