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How to use brakeman in a sentence

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The brakeman would still have been on the engine for a safety lookout as well as his train-related duties.
No room for brakeman was needed since he rode in a compartment atop the tender.
A comfortably cushioned seat is also provided for the head-end brakeman in the rear of the fireman's seat.
The 32-year-old Chicago, Ill. native was also the brakeman on this year's two-man bobsled team in which he paired with driver Todd Hays.
The fireman and brakeman were blown out of the cab, and both died a few days later.
A Reserve environmental engineer officer, he is the brakeman for the top-ranked four-man sled team in the world.
Her position in the two-man team is piloting the bobsleigh, in the front, while her sister acts as the brakeman.
No one boarded the train while we 4 passengers, the conductor, engineer, and brakeman held a 10-minute conversation on the platform.
Windows all across will justify a middle seat for the brakeman, but there's a sandbox there too for the flues.
In the 1970's the two-way radio made a big difference in making up trains and the brakeman were no longer giving signals with lanterns and lighted fuzees.
A brakeman scrambled over the fallen boulders to alert an incoming train, the Spokane Flyer, of the slide, saving lives in the process.
Howard was the son of a railroad brakeman who died early, and he was obliged to work to help support the family.
The names, not necessarily respectively, of the brakeman, fireman, and engineer of a certain train were Smith, Jones, and Robinson.
Against a strong field of contenders, the Appenzeller raced ahead to win the European Championship title with his brakeman Thomas Lampartner.
Even when he was very young, he mingled among railroad workers, since his father worked as a brakeman.
Bill s engineer was Pat Evans, and he would like to locate the conductor and brakeman whose names he cannot recall.
The conductor and brakeman in the caboose were forgotten about!
Smith, a veteran of one Europa Cup and world cup season is the brakeman in the team and is confident he can put the brakes on Britain's rivals this season.
Will Valerie Fleming, a former sprinter and javelin thrower and current brakeman for bobsled driver Shauna Rohbock, get her Olympic medal on the track at Cesana Pariol?
She made the team as a brakeman, a person who helps push the sled and then, on the way down the hill, helps balance it to keep it from hitting the walls.
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In spite of his bewilderment, however, his years of training as a brakeman were not forgotten.
The job of front-end brakeman on a mountain division is no great stake for a man ordinarily, but it was one for me, just then.
A brakeman was just uncoupling the express car when Curly dived underneath and nestled close to the trucks.
For ten minutes brakeman Joe lies insensible and motionless, just as he fell.
You know as well as I do that the brakeman takes on five boxes of lunch at covin.
By and by the brakeman shouted to the signalman in the gray silence of the morning.
As he began to104 get his things together, the brakeman came in.
At this moment entered a brakeman with a can of condensed milk.
He felt satisfied that they had, in some way, disposed of brakeman Joe.
The brakeman sat down opposite Albert, encouraged by his smile.
The locomotive whistled, and the brakeman ran back to the caboose.
Panic-stricken that I had managed to commit another boo-boo by ending up in a train going in the opposite direction, I looked at the brakeman.
Men who had never seen a lady brakeman and who didn't feel threatened by one could calmly consider the issues.
Millions of horrified TV viewers saw driver Jackson and brakeman Dan Money's smash at the Whistler Sliding Centre in Vancouver, Canada, in the early hours of yesterday.
Maybe he came in on a freight, but the brakeman hadn't seen him.
A gruelling selection process in 2009 saw brakeman Nwume earn his place in a four-man Great Britain bobsleigh team for this month's Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
And she had one lower octave of Pipes, like a Brakeman on the Erie.
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