There was no time to get to the tower and try to influence the towerman to cancel system at the behest of a railroad president.
Giving a frightened backward glance as he reached a line of freights, the ex-towerman leaped the space between two cars and disappeared from view.
The young towerman was indeed easy to handle, for the reason that his arms were securely surrounded by the ropes, both above and below the elbows.
There was a lull in active duty for the veteran towerman as the noon whistles blew.
He did, however, look very sneeringly and significantly at the young towerman with a kind of triumphant vindictiveness, Ralph fancied.
The old towerman disappeared down the trap ladder.
Jack Knight, head towerman of the Great Northern Railroad, at Stanley Junction.
Big Denny, looking bigger than ever as he rose to the full magnitude of his final declaration--"as switch towerman for the Great Northern Railway at sixty dollars a month!
The telegram read: "Ralph Fairbanks will report Monday morning at the roundhouse, Stanley Junction, for duty as a regularly appointed switch towerman on the Great Northern Railroad.
He also asked the towerman to telegraph ahead to Dover for a substitute engineer.
The towerman had just been relieved from duty, and met Ralph with eager welcome as he was approaching the place.
With two cars, piled roof-high with heavy trunks, the thoughtfulness of the towerman in sending the special upon track Twenty-one will be appreciated by the baggage handlers.
The point of convergence is known to the towerman and all the other workers as the "throat" of the yard.
But the towerman at Middleport said that he could not move the siding-switch there; it was packed in with ice and snow.
It is roughly figured that it is not desirable to assign more than twenty of these heavy levers to a single towermanand that meant eighteen men, working at a shift.
He did the next best thing and told the towerman in the cabin--almost half a mile away--to keep as good a watch as possible of the cross-over.
It's as easy for him as unbroken rail off in the country," said the chief towerman to me, as he waved salutation at the engineer passing below him.
Eight times that towerman tried there in the midst of the storm to open that switch and eight times he reported failure.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "towerman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
