trainmaster
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of trainmaster
Example Sentences
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He was a switchman, yardmaster, trainmaster, division superintendent, general manager and assistant to the president.
From Time Magazine Archive
From conductor he started up the long grind of a rail-road operating man's career: trainmaster, assistant superintendent, superintendent.
From Time Magazine Archive
After a World War I stint as a Navy radio operator, he worked up through U.P.'s ranks as a telegrapher, train dispatcher, trainmaster, assistant superintendent.
From Time Magazine Archive
His father, a trainmaster in Columbus, was an accomplished amateur golfer, as was Weiskopf's mother.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From The Night Operator by Packard, Frank L. (Frank Lucius)
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