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During a bitter labor strike in 1963, Florida East Coast Railway hired Mr. Calley as a switchman and then promoted him to conductor.
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Adam Bernstein, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
But emergencies have long been the switchmen of lasting social change.
—Matthew Desmond, The New York Review of Books, 28 Dec. 2023
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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Adam Bernstein, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
But emergencies have long been the switchmen of lasting social change.
—Matthew Desmond, The New York Review of Books, 28 Dec. 2023
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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“Switchman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/switchman. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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switchman
noun
switch·man
-mən 
: one who attends a railroad switch
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