switchman

• “Hello, Mrs. Black!" called the switchman in a jolly voice to his wife, who just then came to the side door to look out.”

  Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South

• “Milk, Bruno!" called the switchman again, and he opened the door and out ran the dog.”

  Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South

• “I left Holy Name High at the age of 14.1 worked nights on the railroad as a switchman.”

  May « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground

• “Well, they're men of all classes," the switchman replied.”

  The Huffington Post: Greg Mitchell: Dispatches From Incredible 1934 Campaign: Irving Thalberg's Final 'Attack Ad' Sparks Riots

• “First to appear on camera was a Mr. Healey, who identified himself as a switchman at the Southern Pacific yard at Colton.”

  The Huffington Post: Greg Mitchell: Dispatches From Incredible 1934 Campaign: Irving Thalberg's Final 'Attack Ad' Sparks Riots

• “It was not uncommon for a switchman to lose track of where all the trains in his charge were going, an alarming development that would send him lunging for his emergency whistle to let off a long blast.”

  Simon & Schuster: Colossus

• “April Hurmuses, a Vancouver writer, was hired on the docks in 1984 as a switchman.”

  01 « August « 2009 « Stephen Rees’s blog

• “By targeting drugs at that step, physicians would be able to stop a cell from heading down the path toward cancer just as a switchman stops a train from going down the wrong track.”

  Newsweek: The Cancer Killer

• “Hubert Humphrey employed "a formal slovenliness of syntax which enabled him to shunt phrases back and forth like a switchman who locates a freight car by moving everything in the yard.”

  How to Cover an Election

• “He sued the railroad, claiming the switchman was negligent.”

  Simon & Schuster: A History of American Law

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