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Example sentences for "enginemen"

Lexicographically close words:
engineer; engineered; engineering; engineers; engineman; enginery; engines; engins; engirdling; engirt
  1. But, as demonstrated in the table from the Eighteenth Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor (1903), a smaller percentage of the income of enginemen and conductors is spent on food than of those employes receiving lower pay.

  2. Some of the conductors and enginemen went so far as to resign rather than run on telegraphic orders against the time of another train.

  3. I've just had two enginemen on the carpet for running over an old ranchman's pet cow.

  4. The two enginemen who ran over the ranchman's pet cow had no such difficulty, I assure you.

  5. The firemen shall attend at all times when required by the head enginemen or superintendent, as well as upon the days of general inspection.

  6. The necessary operations to be adopted shall be under his absolute control, and he will issue his instructions to the head enginemen and firemen.

  7. The head enginemen and firemen shall reside as near the engine-house as possible.

  8. The head enginemen shall have the carts and barrels attached to their several districts always in readiness, in good order, and the barrels filled with water, which shall accompany the engines to the fire.

  9. It made busy work for the section gangs, who had their hands more than full with landslides, undermined culverts, and overflowing ditches, and it caused enginemen to strain their eyes along the lines of wet track, with an unusual carefulness.

  10. The enginemen of the special had not understood their signal, and had thrown out a fusee to warn them of his presence immediately in front of them.

  11. Enginemen will place their orders in the clip before them until executed.

  12. It must be respected by conductors and enginemen of trains thereby directed to be held as if addressed to them.

  13. The expense for enginemen for similar reasons was 55 to 60 per cent.

  14. As block is not clear enginemen must be prepared to stop within their vision.

  15. Enginemen must use every precaution to prevent damage by fire from their engines.

  16. And when you enginemen see a signal against you, think of the wrecks you have known of since you entered the service, and STOP; take no chances.

  17. Turntables must be locked with a switch-lock by enginemen and others immediately after use, except when in charge of employees.

  18. Why should not all enginemen shut it off?

  19. When trains meet by special order or time-table regulations, conductors and enginemen must inform each other by word of mouth what trains they are.

  20. Enginemen must keep the headlights of their engines in good order, and when running after dark, or when storms, fogs or other causes render it necessary, they must be lighted.

  21. Train and enginemen should report defects discovered by them on Form 995 and attach card to truss rod of car or locomotive tank.

  22. In this connection I want to suggest to the enginemen that when you discover a cause for the sending out of a flagman give him a chance to go back before you get stopped, so that he can cover the required distance quicker.

  23. The superintendent of motive power did not have to complain that his enginemen were not kept in line.

  24. Enginemen are transportation men, and the time that master mechanics put in assigning crews, keeping an age book, and otherwise duplicating the superintendent's work might a great deal better be given to the back shop.

  25. A superintendent should know enough about an engine to handle the enginemen just as he does the trainmen.

  26. A number of roads have tried the experiment of putting the enginemen and the roundhousemen solely under the superintendent, and of confining the master mechanic to his proper function of running the shops.

  27. Watt was equally wroth with the enginemen at Bedworth.

  28. He wrote to Boulton, “Joseph has pursued his old practice of drinking in the neighbourhood in a scandalous manner, until the very enginemen turned him into ridicule.

  29. The bulletin was, I presume, rather severe, and the enginemen and conductors were not taking it very well.

  30. For months you have neglected your office, and have worked and schemed and conspired to get trainmen and enginemen to quit work and go to war.

  31. In 1906 the enginemen were incorporated into the order, and thenceforth the membership grew rapidly.

  32. None of our enginemen is at this end of the line, and your man Williams, who brought you up from Denver, doesn't know the way.

  33. But I hope to live a while longer; and while I live I shall doubtless have to ride with the enginemen now and then.

  34. Directed to account for fuel and oil consumed, the enginemen good-naturedly forged reports and the storekeepers blandly O.

  35. Dawson, when he should come down, was to pick up a few of the loyal enginemen and guard the roundhouse.

  36. Goodloe reports it from Little Butte; says both enginemen are in the mix-up, but he doesn't know whether they are killed or not.

  37. On the Committee Minutes for January 28th there is a resolution as follows:-- That a deputation of three agents attend a meeting of cokemen, mechanics and enginemen as to the amalgamation of all those Associations.

  38. The Council likewise resolved to ask the cokemen, mechanics, and enginemen to join them in their demand for the fifteen per cent.

  39. The Federation Board met on the same day, when it was found that the enginemen refused to give in their notices; but the Board decided that the other three sections should tender theirs, and the owners should be informed of the same.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "enginemen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.