switchman

noun

switch·man ˈswich-mən

: one who attends a switch (as in a railroad yard)

Examples of switchman in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Tokyo Station still has a plaque marking the spot where then-Prime Minister Takashi Hara was fatally stabbed on Nov. 4, 1921, by a railway switchman who objected to the government’s policies. —

WSJ, 8 July 2022 The switchman he was initially accused of killing actually survived, Boyles said. —

Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2020 Five years later, John Brown was accused of severely injuring a switchman on an Illinois Central Railroad train. —

Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2020 Weeks, a clerk at phone company Southern Bell, applied for an open job as a switchman. —

Bryce Covert, Cosmopolitan, 9 Aug. 2017 Coach Williams’s longtime man Friday, Wayne Walden, a former academic counselor, played switchman, steering basketball players to these classes. —

Michael Powell, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2017

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