Everybody began to make great things of Dave: some of the boys called him trainmaster and told him to drop his punch and give Tommie a show.
For three months Bucks sat his new saddle without a word or an act to show what he was thinking: then there came from the little room a general order that swept right and left from trainmaster to wrecking boss.
The trainmaster turned, but Kate was over before her brother Sinkers could reach her as he ran in.
You're not going to throw over this trainmaster offer?
When he began passenger braking the trainmaster put him on with Pat Francis.
The trainmaster was about to dispatch one of the troop trains from Asheville, its forty-minute meal period having nearly expired, when an assistant informed him that the officers of the regiment it carried were not aboard.
At that time he was trainmaster of the Southern Railway at Asheville, North Carolina.
Take a purely suppositious case--yet an entirely typical one: Down in the offices of the old Cumberland Valley Railroad at Chambersburg, we will say, there is a boy who is assistant trainmaster or assistant superintendent.
When he was thoroughly discouraged, a raw-boned trainmaster from a far corner of the demoralized division applied for the job of superintendent; he reckoned he could handle the situation.
When necessary, an additional trainmasteris appointed for the previous outside duties of the assistant superintendent.
The trainmaster has a good engine ready for every afternoon, and the milk express goes scurrying into town with passenger rights and on passenger schedules.
The next morning the president of the Pennsylvania summoned the trainmaster of that suburban division to his desk and reported the matter.
The man who is hauling a train on the most remote corner of this railroad is doing its work quite as much as the biggest trainmaster here at the terminal.
The sight of these women so excited our curiosity that the trainmaster called a halt until they passed us.
Their camp was not a great distance from ours, and that night some of the boys wanted to go and pay them a visit, but the trainmaster told them that if they did not want to get left they had better not go.
Tobin, who was selected by Trainmaster Simms to accompany Conductor Bostick as flagman because of his well-known adherence to the rules that govern this important position.
Campbell, trainmaster on the Eastern Division of the Texas and Pacific, will go with us to Fort Worth, the terminus of his division, 253 miles.
The jovial trainmaster of the Central Division, as he bade us goodbye, said: “You people could not travel in better form or fare better if you were a party of millionaires.
Trainmaster Campbell left instructions for the conductor of the following train to carry him to Longview Junction, where he will overtake us.
As guests we have with us leaving Denver Trainmaster J.
Brooke Moore, trainmasterof the Middle Division, was a guest on the train from Harrisburg to Altoona.
Trainmaster Campbell is a member of Alamo Division No.
The first time the trainmaster had to wait an hour or two before he could dictate a letter in the superintendent's office, or could use a stenographer in his own office, he would beef for a separate establishment.
Sometimes it is better to send out the trainmaster and stay in yourself to handle an already congested situation.
If your trainmaster sees fit to make a general recommendation, for example, about a train rule, provided he does so through your office, you should forward it, giving your own views.
You say that the relation of superintendent and trainmaster should be that of elder brother and younger brother.
Under the narrow practice of most roads the trainmaster would have no redress and would be considered disloyal if he attempted to reach the general superintendent.
Sometimes the trainmaster is at the wrong end of the line and you must go yourself.
Every trainmastershould be a traveling engineer and every traveling engineer should be a trainmaster.
The trainmaster rides in the caboose and the traveling engineer--road foreman is the modern term--in the engine, but neither dares presume to know the business of the other.
A permanently located trainmaster requires an official circular to have his jurisdiction extended, and if suddenly ordered away can leave only a clerk to represent the company.
After the war he re-entered railway work, and was trainmaster and later general superintendent.
The train and engine services have been so badly over-specialized, as I shall show you some other time, that our choice is restricted to men whom the trainmaster happened to hire as extra brakeman years ago.
When this got down to the superintendent or the trainmaster the conductor was called in.
If the flagman does not tell the official to go to h----, the trainmaster probably will.
Your chief of staff, the senior assistant general manager, will promulgate instructions, while this traveling representative, like a trainmaster on a division, will see that they are carried out.
Instead of the superintendent or trainmaster writing to a conductor, "Why did you delay No.
The trainmaster says, "This is my department, you have interfered with my man.
The old idea has been to locate a trainmaster with an office at such points.
This desirable condition cannot obtain where the system makes such important officers as the superintendent and the trainmaster unconscious attorneys for the defense, sometimes openly advocating reinstatement of a thief.
A trainmaster or a chief dispatcher is really carrying the responsibility of a superintendent without the title and authority necessary for smooth administration.
Eventually he would probably have a fine passenger run and get as much money perhaps as his division superintendent, probably more than his trainmaster or his road foreman of engines.
The trainmaster came to report that a careful search of Callahan's files had not disclosed any message to Leckhard.
With a slowly smouldering fire to fight, and no water to be had nearer than the tank-cars at La Guayra, the trainmaster had wrought miracles.
The trainmaster was nursing a knee and screwing his face into the reflective scheme of distortion.
The trainmaster nodded, but Dawson seemed not to have heard.
This had come to be the stereotyped query, vocalizing itself every time the trainmaster showed his face in the superintendent's room.
The trainmasternodded and went out, muttering curses to the tilted hat brim.
The trainmaster still insisted that Hallock was the man who was planning the robberies and plotting the downfall of the Lidgerwood management, and he wanted to have the chief clerk systematically shadowed.
The trainmaster jerked his head toward the outer office.
The trainmaster was undeniably homely--and more; his hard-featured face was a study in grotesques.
Without suspecting it, the trainmaster had found the weak joint in the superintendent's armor.
Like all the other offices in the Crow's Nest, that of the trainmaster was bare and uninviting.
Judson's report, made to the trainmaster that evening after the westbound train had left, was short and concise.
It's hard to understand the running orders of the Great Trainmaster sometimes--isn't it?
Burke looked at him unhappily--monkeys had thrown their meeting point out--and there was the trainmaster to talk to when they got back to Big Cloud.
