I did think the old fool would hear the brakeman call the station, though.
Half an hour later, the brakeman shouted the name of the station where they must stop.
To avoid the switch shanty garrulousness of an old brakeman I now give up this preferred run and turn in at the office my lantern and keys.
On some runs where the conductor is busy with numerous train orders you may find it better to make the head brakeman a collector, but never let him be a specialist independent of the conductor.
The latter probably had to work for years as a freight brakeman and a freight conductor to get where he is, and if he loses out may be too old to begin all over again.
It permits any passenger conductor to be made superintendent, but forbids selecting an extra brakemanor the call boy.
Suppose that fifty or sixty years ago when a brakeman expected to be promoted to a conductor they had said: "Fine, my boy.
In his presence, and that of the agent, the way freight brakeman drops and spoils a box.
The train and engine services have been so badly over-specialized, as I shall show you some other time, that our choice is restricted to men whom the trainmaster happened to hire as extra brakeman years ago.
A brakeman had also jumped down, and the train fastened on to the waiting car, under his manipulation, with a final cluck and jolt.
Well, I don't know about that, but I'm going to look up a place a brakeman gave me a pointer on.
The station passed, the brakeman did not return, perhaps because he found some other listener, perhaps because he was afraid of boring this pleasant young fellow.
The brakeman swung his lantern, the train drew off into the blinding whirl, and its lights were soon lost in the clouds of snow.
The station-hand was there, and a couple of grocery clerks, and a brakeman sat at Stacey's right hand.
The brakeman sat down opposite, encouraged by Albert's smile.
For that," said the brakeman with a grin, "I'd let you ride on the tin roof!
A brakeman jerked the door open behind him and said, "Hey!
The third night out he tried sleeping flat in the aisle of the car on the floor until the brakeman ordered him up, and then two men proposed to fight the officious brakeman if he did not leave the man alone.
He then engaged with the Erie Railroad as brakeman and later had charge of a construction and switch engine for some time.
Ray was so fussy about the punctilious observance of orders that almost any brakeman would take a chance once in a while, from natural perversity.
Suppose that you had married your brakeman and lived with him year after year, caring for him even less than you do for your doctor, or for Harsanyi.
His former brakeman had asked to be transferred because, he said, "Kennedy was as fussy about his car as an old maid about her bird-cage.
Next the boy turned his attention to the supper dishes, and had them very nearly washed and wiped when Brakeman Joe returned, greatly to that stalwart fellow's surprise and delight; for Joe hated to wash dishes.
The next moment the car door was pushed open, and Conductor Tobin, followed byBrakeman Joe, entered it.
The tramps must have learned of its valuable contents in some way, and been attempting to rob it when Brakeman Joe discovered them.
At that moment the young brakeman presented a sorry picture, blackened beyond recognition by his dearest friends, scorched, and with clothing hanging in charred shreds.
It was not until the engineman left his cab, and discovered the senseless form of Brakeman Joe lying across the rails, less than a hundred feet away, that he knew why he had been signalled.
Two of the tramps had mysteriously disappeared; he himself had sent a third staggering backward down the bank into a clump of bushes, and he could hear Brakeman Joe chasing the fourth down the track.
Me too," said Brakeman Joe, who believed in following the lead of his superior officer.
In one of the wounded men Rod Blake was especially interested, for the young brakeman had fought on with a stubborn determination to save him after the others had declared it to be impossible.
Brakeman Joe went out over the tops of the cars to call in the other two brakeman of the train, and keep watch for them, while they went into the caboose and ate their supper.
Conductor Bronson andBrakeman Robie are members of Harvey Division No.
Brakeman Charles Gunning, who has been with us since we left Ft.
Bacon andBrakeman Charles Gunning go with us from Fort Worth to El Paso, a distance of 616 miles.
As we start again I step on board, and entering the smoker encounter Brakeman Cook.
Captain Hale is still with us, his brakemanbeing A.
The brown-eyed girl swept the faces of her fellow travelers at one glance, nodded to the interested brakeman with a surprised and pleased smile, and then, just as the train began to move, hurried to the railing.
There was constantly something on one side or the other which attracted her attention, and she darted right and left much to the amusement of the brakeman who sat within the car and watched her.
There proved to be less to see than he had expected; and having climbed aboard the pilot-car and examined the engine, Alex ascended the tower from which a brakeman controlled the movements of the train.
Immediately the brakeman slid the car door back a few inches, flashed his lantern four times, muffled it, and ran the door open its full width.
She was dreaming again, and before she could realize it, the brakeman called, "White River Junction!
And so she continued to speak cold comfort to herself for the next four hours until the brakeman called "Barton's River!
Sinclair stopped at the derrick, and the freight conductor went on to where his brakeman had enlisted two of Sinclair's giants to help get out the tramp.
But he wants water," protested a brakemanwho was walking behind, carrying his arm in a sling.
Next stop, off you go," announced thebrakeman sternly.
Bidding the boy to hang to the brake wheel, the brakeman began climbing down the end ladder, so as to catch Teddy in case he were to fall.
The light was in the hands of a brakeman who was working his way over the train toward the caboose.
The brakeman laughed long and loud, but Teddy was more interested in the man's easy poise on the swaying car than in what he said.
The brakeman put down his lantern and seated himself on the side of the flat car.
I put up forty-four years as a brakeman and five years on ditching trains before I went to braking.
Bob of a brakeman who was running toward the rear end of the train with a red flag.
The brakeman will go as fast as he can, but it will take some time to get the wrecking crew here with a new engine, and then it will take some time to get all the cars back on the track.
I've got to send a brakeman on foot eight miles to wire the news of this accident.
It was the only place the thing could be set, and the brakeman himself put it there," he declared.
He told the brakeman in the caboose to go up and put the man off at the next stop.
On one of the famous scenic routes of the west there is a brakeman who has lost the forefinger of his right hand.
When thebrakeman approached the tramp, the latter waved a big revolver and told him to keep away.
Then she ventured to ask the brakeman how he had lost his finger: "Cut off in making a coupling between cars, I suppose?
A conductor and a brakeman on a Montana railroad differ as to the proper pronunciation of the name Eurelia.
And then from the brakemanat the other end of the car: "You really are!
So as I was sliding down the mountainside the brakeman came in, and I asked him when the train would reach my station.
The brakeman surveyed the tempestuous little man from head to foot.
After the train had made another stop and gone on, the brakeman came into the caboose and said to the conductor: "Well, is he off?
A brakeman who didn't know him by sight sat complacently on the top of the car.
Another time, some years afterward, we sat down together in places near the end of a car, and a brakeman came in looking for his official note-book.
A brakeman who was showing me a pocketful of nuggets and specimens, laughed me to scorn when I bemoaned the scarred and tortured look of the hills in sight.
Just then a brakeman said to me, "We are now entering the Royal Gorge.
The brakeman threw open the vestibule door on the right side and almost before the train came to a stop Bob and the conductor were running forward.
The conductor and brakeman followed him through the car and out into the vestibule where the steady clacking of the trucks beneath the Pullmans filled the air.
There was no porter in those days; the brakeman made up the beds.
As these were washed only at irregular intervals, it was a lucky passenger who found clean linen for his bed, and if he did not make up the bed himself, it was the brakeman who provided this domestic service.
The brakeman got there first and took hold of one foot, when the conductor got hold of the brakeman's coat tail and pulled.
Spitting on his hands he called a brakeman with a transom hook out of the sleeper, to fish with, they rolled up their trousers and waded in, after telling a porter to bring a blanket to put the pieces in.
The brakeman went down there the next day and was fishing in the same hole.
As her head came out of the mud, she squirted water out of her mouth, kicked the brakeman in the ear and said, "Lave go of me, I am a dacent woman!
