It may not prove that the trainman is overpaid as much as it proves that the station agent is underpaid.
The trainman gets a hundred dollars a month already--and under the Adamson law he is promised more.
The transition of the rough-looking, rough-speaking, rough-thinking brakeman into the courteous trainman comes first to my mind.
Take the brakeman--they call him trainmannowadays in the passenger service.
A trainman might have forty-five demerits against him, be on the narrow edge of discharge, and in eleven months, after turning the new leaf, have as clean a sheet as the best man on the division.
Ugly trainman on the main line wouldn't close the rear doors.
Now he is called a trainmanand is attired in a natty uniform.
When the trainman could think of no further indignities he took his orders, to meet Number One at Sackley, the second station east of Goose River.
The instant I saw Dave I let go and he watched the crestfallen trainman pull himself together.
The trainman with a swear shoved-to the door, and Bullhead, the patient, turned over his letter of resignation quick in the dark, felt for a match and relighted his lamp.
There's many a struggling trainman that will look quick and grateful when any fellow far or near speaks a word about Martin Duffy.
The trainman who had put him off down the line collared the lad the minute his feet touched the platform of the caboose.
The trainman roared, which once more aroused the ire of the roustabouts who were trying to sleep.
The trainman did not appear to mind the giddy swaying of the stock car.
Of course it was only by reason of trainman Hanlon's doubtful clew that the village figured at all in the sensational affair.
That trainman said two men with a kid got out at Catskill.
While the engineer, firemen, and some of the brakemen worked over the disabled engine, another trainman walked back to the nearest telegraph office to summon a relief engine.
The trainmanlooked about helplessly, for he had not been on the road long.
The trainman seized the box, swung it to the door, and tipped it forward.
Presently, as Jack was wondering what the trainman was waiting for, from the distant engine came the two long and two short toots for a crossing, and the man started to his feet.
Bill Dancing caught a passing trainman by the arm.
Though he asked the questions fast, he expected no answer to any of them from the confused trainman and waited for none.
It was sickening to hear, for it meant, Bucks surmised, that another trainman was being murdered.
The trainman left the car and attended to his duties.
Then you'll git out the next time it stops, young Missie," the trainman announced harshly.
The trainman climbed up on a box and sat whittling a stick and watching Olive out of a pair of shrewd Irish blue eyes.
Once or twice a dirty-faced trainman stuck his head in the open door of the freight car, but he saw nothing of the frightened girl huddled between the boxes.
Time after time I have piled into a train at night, after buying a ticket to my destination; have journeyed to my destination, have gone through the depot and to my hotel without ever seeing a trainman to take the ticket.
The trainman lowered his lantern and cast its radiance in a wider circle on the platform.
The trainman that I interviewed was a freight-train conductor who had been in the employ of the company over twenty-five years.
By way of illustration, I will give a resume of conversations that I had respectively with a detective, a tramp, and a trainman that I encountered on the property.
Gradually I would work away from the switchman or trainman specialist to the all-'round man in whom I could concentrate authority as the head of an important sub-unit of organization.
Perhaps because I had the honor of braking on a way freight I have never outgrown the idea of the practical trainman that a local freight is a traveling switch engine and a peddler of L.
Strangers are informed of their destination by a trainman shortly after the train has pulled away from the preceding station.
The trainman had got no further than the rear of the train, when the lamp gave a final flicker.
A trainman stood at the side, his manners suggesting something had gone wrong.
The small gold badge Bob displayed worked magic with the trainman and he summoned his brakeman.
The trainman would welcome the end of the division and his run.
A Pullman porter was just behind and in the background another trainman could be seen.
Bob was alone in the observation lounge without even a trainman in the car.
Bob, shaking the rain off his coat, nodded absent-mindedly and the trainman went forward while Bob returned to the Pullman.
The trainman went ahead and tapped on the door of the baggage car.
The trainman hurried outside and Bob banged the door after him.
A red lantern was being swung at the junction platform and the minute the Limited drew to a halt beside the cinder platform Bob and the trainman started running forward.
For a little while, I'm afraid," replied the trainman diplomatically.
It was not long until the trainman called "Exeter!
As she waited for a trainman to help her on, she caught bits of the conversation between two men who stood on the rear platform of the smoker.
Then a trainman entered the car with the unpleasant news that they would be delayed yet longer.
