Some of thebrakemen had cleared away the snow by now and there was an open passage to the outside world.
Mr. Carter came back with one of the brakemen just then, bearing a can of milk.
The fear-stricken men made a rush for the locomotive, at the same time giving the alarm to the sleeping brakemen in the caboose, but with no avail.
One look the fear-stricken men gave the awful sight, and then they made a rush for the locomotive, at the same time giving the alarm to the sleeping brakemen in the caboose with loud cries, but with no avail.
As they looked, they saw the two brakemen rush out of the caboose, but they had not time to gather the slightest idea of the cause of their doom before they, the car and signal tower were tossed high in the air, to disappear forever.
The fireman and flagman were on the engine, and two brakemen were asleep in the caboose.
It won't do any good," said one of the brakemen who had just come up.
I found one of the brakemen quite a friendly fellow, and willing to talk.
Freight conductors and brakemen must be on hand not less than thirty minutes before the leaving time of their trains.
If brakes are unsafe, or ladders out of order, brakemenwill report them to the conductor at once.
Passenger brakemen will place themselves at the steps of coaches at stations, and will assist passengers in entering or leaving the cars.
I'll send some of my assistants along with you, and a bunch of our brakemen and switchmen.
Muttering that all his brakemen seemed to consider him "easy," Ray went down to his car alone.
Ray found that his brakemenwere likely to have what he termed "a taste for the nude in art," and Giddy was no exception.
The one complaint Ray's brakemen had to make of him was that he was too fussy about his caboose.
I came upon two brakemen struggling in a vain endeavor to close a tight car door.
The last time I was put off; the brakemen told me if I got back on the train again they would shoot me.
I never knew when the train started, but about forty miles down the road the brakemen found me, and shining their lanterns within a foot of my face, woke me up.
From this point throughout the West the brakemen are white men.
On lines where brakemen demand money of them, ten cents is usually sufficient to settle for a journey of a hundred miles, and twenty cents often secures a night's ride.
In the far West the brakemen have no scruples about throwing tramps off freight-trains.
So, this member of the ancient and honorable order of attorneys for the brotherhood told the brakemen where to head in.
The superintendent took the brakemen out of service.
For the sake of that and for the sake of still greater safety--following the railroad rule to use each possible safety measure, one upon the other--the brakemen are still compelled to keep to the top of the cars.
Collins, the conductor, and his brakemen had reported at the yard-office, and were assigned to Third-118.
Into one of these baggage cars the majority of the party climbed, shutting the doors at either end after them, while the two men who were to serve as brakemen stationed themselves upon the roof.
The baggage cars were closed, and might easily be filled with powder and shot; the men in the engine, and the two brakemenon the top of one car had a perfectly natural appearance.
The fire seemed to have been built where it was to show the engineer the pile of sleepers, and the brakemen scattered it, when the barrier was removed.
Some of the brakemenran ahead, and under the conductor's direction they removed the obstructions from the rails.
While you are learning that even a brakeman's unpaid board bill may be satisfactorily explained, the brakemen are learning that even a superintendent can find the time to be fair and just.
If it is desirable for the brakemen and the fireman to be informed, we should furnish a copy to each man in the crew.
The conductor who burns off journals will assure us of his distinguished concern and of his constant injunctions to his brakemen to watch for hot boxes.
In shoving long cuts of cars without using air, get your brakemen and switchmen to feel a pride in setting a hand brake on the end car to take the slack and save the jerk on the drawbars.
It rather contemplates having available firemen in wipers, and willing brakemen in clerks.
Then Mr. Hill walked over to caboose number 18, in which, as he expected, he found Conductor Tobin and his two brakemen fast asleep, with bits of mosquito netting spread over their faces to keep off the flies.
Formerly it was necessary to have as many brakemen on a passenger train as there were cars, while now it is rare to find more than two on each train.
At first he thought it curious that the other brakemen should run along the tops of the cars, and wondered why they were always in such a hurry.
There Conductor Tobin and the two brakemen listened with intense interest to all he had to tell them of his recent experiences.
He is one of our brakemen and ran off with a locomotive.
Blazing with indignation at the injustice and meanness of Snyder's absurd charge against his favorite brakeman, Conductor Tobin answered promptly: "I know him to be one of the best brakemen on the road, although he is the youngest.
The brakemen refused to join the engine-men, though sympathizing with them, but the switchmen were easily persuaded.
A case in point was a couple of brakemen on local who, after unloading a half-dozen reapers and a threshing machine at Mendota, had gone into a saloon with the shipper and killed their thirst.
The conductors, brakemen and baggagemen were not in the fight, and when directed by the officials to take the engines and try to run them or fire them, they found it hard to refuse to obey the order.
The conductor is Henry Buckley and thebrakemen are H.
Shanehan; Conductor Williams and his brakemen will continue on to Los Angeles with us, 130 miles further.
William Perkins is conducting the train; the brakemen are J.
Guerin has charge of the train, and the brakemen are Tom Kelley and F.
Bockus is conducting the train, whose brakemen are G.
Captain Gilbert and his brakemen are lively, interesting company, and entertain us during the evening with anecdotes and stories of Western life.
Conductor Duey and Brakemen Carlisle and Shoemaker go with us to Colorado Springs.
Conductor William Gilbert has charge of the train and his brakemen are T.
Philliber and Fireman Charley Wilcox are in the cab, “Billy” Newman and his brakemen remain with us.
Bob successively personated an organ-grinder, a pug dog, and Hamlet, amid thunders of applause from the brakemen and engineers!
Conductor, engineers and brakemen being consulted, and inventories taken, it was found that while food was abundant, the stock of wood in the bins would not last till noon.
As the train had only recently been made up and few passengers were expected, there were only one or two brakemen waiting.
There were brakemen who argued that protection came from the tariff; but they never made any converts in Little Russia, where the inhabitants could be induced to vote for president only on the assurance that Shockley was running.
Station agents will use extra care to secure cars on sidings; brakemen must use care to avoid being blown from moving trains.
The conductor and the brakemen climbed sullenly down, and the baggage-man shoved open his door and slammed a trunk out on the platform without a pretence of sympathy.
The authorities took every precaution to prevent the spread of the yellow fever, by arresting the brakemen whom the girl said was the cause of all the trouble.
Since the introduction of the patent air brake on passenger trains, by which brakemen have been dispensed with, a number of patent right men have been studying up some contrivance to do away with conductors.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brakemen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
