| If cars are left off or taken off at a particular point, then he performs the duties of a switchman. |
| One such spot is the peaceful town of Myrtlemede, where the switchman Reg Blanton had worked for twenty years. |
| Only the station-master and a switchman with a lantern swinging in his hand were in sight. |
| At home they knew a switchman who lived in a little shanty just like this. |
| One time a picture was being taken of a band of train wreckers who were supposed to tie the switchman to the track. |
| One switchman handles both locomotives, that is he takes one out while the other is loading and so on. |
