The baggage car had developed a hot box, and, jumping out, Griswold saw lanterns flashing ahead where thetrainmen labored with the sick wheel.
Griswold felt sure that the train would not leave without the brakeman, and he was further reassured by the lanterns of the trainmen beside the baggage car.
As the startled passengers and trainmen followed the direction of his look, they saw what had occasioned the wild commotion, and, for a moment, their hearts stood still.
The engineer and fireman sprang from their cab, conductor and trainmen came running up, and the passengers swarmed from the cars.
Passengers and trainmen came pouring from the cars, and there was a Babel of excited questionings.
Joe and Bob and Ed will stay by the train and keep shooting off their guns, to cow the passengers and trainmen while we get in our work.
There's no harm in him, though some of the trainmen put him off when they find him stealing a ride.
Maybe some of the trainmen will come along and let us out.
The conductors and trainmen on the Eastern roads were next to move "in concert" for increased wages.
It was an excellent opportunity for eloquence of the explosive sort, and when the dust had settled the track and trainmen were evidently expecting the well-deserved tongue-lashing.
In the men's room, whither he went to order his cup of coffee, there was a mixed throng of travellers, with a sprinkling of trainmen and town idlers, among the latter a number of the lately discharged railroad employees.
There were two of us who wanted your job, and the other one needed it badly enough to wreck trains and to kill people, and to lead a lot of pig-headed trainmen and mechanics into a riot to cover his tracks.
Only McCloskey's protest and his own anxiety for the safety of the Nadia's company, kept Lidgerwood from leading the little relief column of loyal trainmen and head-quarters clerks in person.
Andy Bradford has been giving me an idea of how the trainmen stand, and he says there is a good deal of strike talk.
The grievance committee intimated pretty broadly that they could swing the trainmen into line if they had to make a fight.
Lidgerwood dropped the master-mechanic as he had dropped the offending trainmen who had put Train 71 in the ditch at Gloria where, according to McCloskey, there should be no ditch.
After the accident, the trainmen were so busy that Miss Laura could get no one to release me.
He must have gotten off the train when it was going full speed, for he hadn't been seen at any of the stations, and the trainmen were astonished to find the doors locked and the car empty, when they got to Hoytville.
I want you to call your trainmen in as fast as you can get at them.
I said I thought a volunteer crew of trainmen could be procured which would do the work.
The Brotherhood of Trainmen contains men who have been promoted to conductors causing a friction between these two orders.
Engineers, conductors, firemen and trainmen would not take out trains which Pullman cars were attached to.
In order to remedy this, he promulgated a plan of federation whereby all the different organizations, engineers, firemen, conductors, trainmen and switchmen would stand as a unit in case of a grievance.
Wilkinson of the trainmen was sending out his orders and ultimatums, thick and fast and his men were now fast returning to their old positions.
Conductor, give the trainmen the rifles from the baggage car and let them act under Mr. Foster.
Pawnee Junction: This telegram your authority to take charge of train on which you are, and demand obedience of all officials and trainmen on road.
Unless the start should be too long delayed, or the trainmen should discover the unhasped door, he was measurably safe.
The trainmen had tried to make their coupling, the drawheads had failed to engage, and the rear half of the train was surging down upon the point of hazard.
He hoped that the trainmen had seen the automobile, and that they would not attempt to make the coupling until after the gray car had crossed behind the caboose.
The coach used had a partition run through it, and, as soon as the busy trainmendiscovered ladies on board, they unceremoniously drove the more bibulous passengers, protesting, into the forward compartment.
One of the roads in Cleveland requires an examination of its firemen and trainmen six months after employment, as to vision, color-sense, and hearing.
Train orders are rather vague, though; and I've noticed the trainmen don't get along very well with the passengers.
All the trainmen in uniform; conductor's punch and lanterns silver-plated; train-boys fenced up by themselves and not allowed to offer anything but music.
Eager hands received and guided the rescuers, leading them into the diner, while the trainmen worked the stiff levers, broke loose the coupling, and swung their lanterns in frantic signals to the engineer, far ahead.
Not a doubt was entertained among either passengers or trainmen as to the origin of the fire.
He said we'd better wait till the trainmen came along and then report the matter to them, as the sheepmen would want damages off the railroad or somebody and we'd better not hunt them up too quick as it might jeopardize their case.
We had put out a signal flag on our snow hut so the trainmen would know where to find us when they came along with the stock.
Trainmen have been finding out that the less food in their stomachs they take into bed with them and on to their trains, the better it is for them in every way.
These books and the copies that have been used by trainmen should be sent to headquarters for inspection.
This also renders the work of the Dispatchers uniform, and enables them to perform it with facility, especially if not greatly experienced; and the trainmen become accustomed to the forms, and comprehend them at sight.
There will be fewer occasions for trainmen to reconcile conflicting regulations and fewer cases of "doubt," in which to "take the safe course and run no risks.
The risk of a time order and of all running on time, arises largely from the possibility of trainmen not having the correct time.
It will be then the rule and the habit of trainmen to observe all these signals and to stop when they are not placed, on their approach, in the position permitting them to proceed.
This will bring the trainmen at once to the office on arrival if the opposing train is not seen.
The only reason of apparent moment that could be assigned for leaving the orders in the book is that the trainmen may sign all the copies.
It is not easy to give up methods of practice in which one has been trained for those which are new; and it may seem difficult, perhaps unsafe, to undertake to re-educate operators and trainmen in so critical a matter.
It is of great importance that the rights of a second or other following section be clearly understood, both by trainmen and those engaged in the issue of telegraphic orders.
Some have simply had them authenticated by repeating back as above, with perhaps the proviso that the trainmen compare their copies with that of the operator, and in some cases sign for them.
The first is reasonably certain when the trainmen are required to go to the office and sign for the order; the second is determined by the transmission of the signatures.
Around it were the footprints, and also the deep indentations of a crowbar, which had evidently been used by the trainmen in prying the boulder off the steel highway.
The trainmen drank two cups of coffee each and greedily devoured a dozen pancakes, which Alex hastened to make.
Alex as the trainmen left, swinging lanterns to light the way.
Now this is merely a caboose story, told on winter nights when trainmen get stalled in the snow that drifts down from the Sioux country.
Our trainmen worked like Americans; there were no cowards on our rolls.
When the railway trainmen held their division fair at McCloud there was a lantern to be voted to the most popular conductor--a gold-plated lantern with a green curtain in the globe.
The trainmen were permitted to retain one wagon and team, with just enough supplies to last them to army headquarters.
Many of the trainmen were asleep under the wagons while waiting dinner, and Will was watching the maneuvers of the cook in his mess.
The Indians charged again, with the usual accompaniment of whoops, yells, and flying arrows; but the trainmen had reached the creek, and from behind its natural breastwork maintained a rifle fire that drove the foe back out of range.
Then the troops and trainmen parted company, the former to undertake a bootless quest for the red marauders, the latter to return to Leavenworth, their occupation gone.
The information that two other trains had been destroyed added to their discouragement, for that meant that they, in common with the other trainmen and the soldiers at the fort, must subsist on short rations for the winter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trainmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
