Word: brakeman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wykes, C.N.R.'s No. 11, more than an hour late, slid to an unscheduled stop. Bitter cold (-35°) had forced down steam in the engine's boilers; it would take time to get it up again. Because No. 21 was following on the same track, a brakeman set out to light warning flares and set torpedoes. But No. 21, pounding through the early morning fog, was dreadfully close behind. Before the brakeman could light a flare, it had plowed into...
...Worried." Some of his competitors got up at 6 a.m. to get in some practice on the fast cork rings out by the boardwalk. Larry was used to getting up early: his dad is a brakeman on the Norfolk & Western. He didn't know his rivals' names, and he didn't bother to find out: he addressed them by the cities pinned on their sweaters, Chicago, Monongahela, Steubenville. Larry was one of the smallest of the lot, but unlike the older competitors he did not worry about losing; he just thought about how to win. Said...
Local citizens noted the exodus with approval, especially one S. Sigmund Hickenlooper '14, brakeman for the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad, who said he was looking forward to the revival of his favorite outdoor sport...
...father was a circuit-riding preacher in Iowa. Al had little schooling. At 15 he invested $2 in a basket of fruit and candy, boarded an Illinois Central train at Cherokee, and told the conductor that he was the new candy butcher. At 17 he was a brakeman, at 26 a freight conductor and a union member who applied evangelistic fervor to his fellow workers' grievances. He got on the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen's national payroll 43 years ago. He has never been off it (present salary: $17,500). He has bitterly fought his brotherhood...
Driver Bill Linney, his two bobbers and his brakeman, could have run it with their eyes closed. His brakeman's carefully practiced pushoff (25% of a bobsled race) gave Linney's team a valuable one-tenth second. They rounded hairpin Shady Corner at approximately 57 m.p.h., zoomed around Zig Zag's treacherous S curve. (A General Electric eye timer clocked them doing 118 m.p.h. at the finish line.) Linney's final four-heat time-4:25.96-was 1.66 seconds short of the course record he set two weeks ago, but an impressive five seconds ahead...