yardmaster
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of yardmaster
Example Sentences
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“Funky, twisty,” is how Camp Small yardmaster Shaun Preston describes them.
From Washington Post • Jan. 25, 2022
Hudson’s grandfather was a yardmaster for the Milwaukee Road and his uncles were also “railroad guys,” he said.
From Washington Times • May 14, 2017
Say a crew's worked eight hours on a packinghouse job and the yardmaster says to make up another train afterwards and it only takes two hours.
From Time Magazine Archive
His father was a yardmaster for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad; his mother was a saleswoman and later a social worker.
From Washington Post
Leckhard, acting as division engineer, telegraph superintendent, material forwarder and yardmaster, found it difficult at limes to bring order out of chaos in the forwarding yard.
From Empire Builders by Hambidge, Jay
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