: a member of a train crew supervised by a conductor
Examples of trainman in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebTruckers and trainmen spend more time away from home, delivery schedules are disrupted at factories and their products’ ultimate destinations.—Andrea Adkins-Hutchins, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2024 Old photos, calendars and portraits of depots and trainmen hang.—Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 31 Aug. 2019 Above, trainman Gilbert Goegel removes a sign from the observation car.—baltimoresun.com, 30 Apr. 2018 Jim has just been discharged from his job as a trainman on the BRT.—Maureen Corrigan, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2017
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