Each one of these long, loaded goods waggons becomes a very serviceable brake-van, and for ascending and descending steep inclines all that is necessary is to take on a few additional brakesmen to manage the brakes of as many suitable waggons.
It was the interest of the brakesmen to economise the working as much as possible, and George no sooner entered upon the contract than he proceeded to devise ways and means of making it “pay.
The brakesmen found the oil and tallow; they divided the work amongst them, and were paid so much per score for their labour.
It was the interest of the brakesmen to economize the working as much as possible, and George no sooner entered upon the contract than he proceeded to devise ways and means of making the contract "pay.
The brakesmen found the oil and tallow; they divided the work among them, and were paid so much per score for their labor.
Of course these brakesmen could rush forward and either pull a tramp out or push him off, but they could not do so without getting him caught in the wheels.
After doing this the two brakesmen run with the train, throwing stones with all their might, and the tramp can hear their savage yells and the stones strike against the car.
Half the tramps in America will not ride a train if they cannot get the comfort of an empty car--not even on a road where the brakesmen are good and indifferent as to the number of tramps they carry.
It would be wise for the tramp to do so, for the train would then be going slow; but if he does not, these brakesmen will force him after, at the point of a revolver, to jump off a train now going fast.
In fact the brakesmen on this road used to look with indifference on tramps, as though they were part of the common freight.
These brakesmen arm themselves with stones, and one of them no sooner sees a tramp under the car than he shouts to his fellow.
But sometimes, unfortunately for the tramp, the brakesmen see a train out; which means that they will stand one on each side of the train, at the head of the engine, and inspect each side of the train as it passes them.
Tramps never ride in this way, except when the brakesmenare very bad and would strike them off the bumpers, and there is not one unsealed, empty car on the train.
Some of these brakesmen were so used to tramps that they would confess a fear to run a train that had none, much the same as sailors look for rats on board a ship.
The only danger there was in not having the same number of brakesmen to the same number of cars as you do when you run the single train?
His argument was in this shape: Brakesmen would not go out for a day or so, and they could not make a living at the wages they paid; that too many of them were employed.
The appointed brakesmen threw themselves flat on the top of the cars.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brakesmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
