trainman
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Kreichbaum, 24, was working as a trainman for the Cumberland Valley Railroad when he was drafted.
From Washington Times • Nov. 17, 2018
That galaxy-spanning canvas springs directly from Green Lantern comics, which started in 1940 after a cartoonist named Martin Nodell saw a New York City subway trainman wave a green lantern as an all-clear signal.
From New York Times • Jun. 11, 2011
How did these employees — a mechanical engineer and a trainman — know their company was on the block?
From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2010
When he learned that the cover subject was not his kind of conductor, the trainman went on his disappointed way through the train.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In his extremity he thought he would try giving it to the trainman just before he reached his stop.
From The Daughter of the Storage And Other Things in Prose and Verse by Howells, William Dean