| When I began racing, we still used a flagman as a starter, and there was another guy at the finish line who tried to judge who won. |
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| At the second race, the starter didn't show up, and Sweeney's career as a flagman was launched. |
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| There are no rules and the only official is the flagman hired to wave the cars off at the start. |
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| He often made many visits to schools and hospitals in Indiana and Wisconsin, explaining the role of a flagman. |
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| Less than 5 minutes before we departed, I heard the conductor calling to the flagman who was still in the baggage car. |
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| The flagman who by the way did an outstanding job didn't know who won the race. |
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| The advance flagman, who stands 100 yards down the course, claimed he had waved his flag but the jockeys said they had not seen him. |
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| The flagman hits the dirt to protect the train's rear, while the conductor walks ahead to check the operations around the bend. |
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| Aa flagman on a track crew was electrocuted as a result of falling on the third rail in Manhattan. |
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| At the western end the flagman cuts off his caboose and stands at the hand-brake, easing down the speed. |
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| Talk story about Silent Sam, a robot flagman used on roadrepair work and recently used on Triborough Bridge. |
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| The absence of a flagman at the crossing permitted the tractor-trailer to approach the crossing without stopping. |
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| He was called in for an investigation with respect to an alleged failure of his duties as a flagman. |
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| Here the flagman pulls the caboose's coupling pin and brakes its speed with a measured twirl of the brake wheel as the cars ahead roll into the inspection track. |
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| The flagman, supplied with metal pins or wooden stakes, marked the spot determined by the deputy surveyor and toward which the axmen and chainmen aimed. |
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| Had a flagman been positioned on the ground, he and his intended signals may have been more visible. |
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| Section 411 of the Quebec Highway Traffic Code requires the driver of a vehicle to stop five metres in advance of a public crossing protected by a flagman who is signalling the approach of a vehicle on the rails. |
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| Contestants will be given their cattle penning number when the line flagman drops the flag as the nose of the first horse crosses the starting line. |
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| The line flagman will raise the flag to signal when arena is ready. |
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| Or if you're a coward, there's Silent Sam, an automated early-warning safety robot flagman. |
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| When a movement is observed approaching, the flagman must display a stop signal using a red flag by day or a lighted red fusee by night or when day signals cannot be plainly seen. |
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| The Bulgarian tourist industry must be a flagman of local winemaking, according to Bulgarian President, Rosen Plevneliev. |
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| As a young man, he held a number of jobs with the railroad, including those of baggage master, flagman, and brakeman, crisscrossing the Southwest but especially working the line between New Orleans and Meridian, Mississippi. |
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| His father was a flagman on a railroad bridge over the Tennessee River. |
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| A flagman will be required at the intersection of these access roads and Booth Street in order to increase the safety for both trucks and vehicles. |
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| Stop signals must be given by the flagman from a point where they can be plainly seen from an approaching train or transfer from not less than 300 yards. |
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| A trainman's responsibility also includes leaving the train and going ahead or behind it to serve as a flagman should the train become disabled in order to warn or stop oncoming trains. |
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