Word: brakemen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name of the stores was. and still is, "Nedick's"-taken from the first syllables of the names of their original founders. Under the new company, business prospered. Fame came to Nedick's Orangeade. Bankers, brokers, bakers, brakemen, drank freely of it on hot summer days...
...surprised was Engineer Bush by this dismal accident that he drove half a mile before he remembered to stop his locomotive. He reversed his speed then and travelled back to the scene of the sneezing. All the passengers on the train as well as brakemen and conductors helped him look for his synthetic molars. The search had been relinquished as futile, Engineer Bush was back in his cab, and moving forward again when a great shout went up behind him. A local searching party had found his teeth. Amid cheers from the passengers and cries of "Shut your face!" Engineer...
Values of the experiment: (i) Train crews need not signal one another with lanterns, flags or whistle toots; brakemen need not dogtrot over moving car tops to deliver messages to engineers; (2) Train dispatchers can give orders without stopping trains; (3) The voice supplements automatic train signals...
...Patrick hurrying out of his house, into his flivver and into the night, was a telegram asking him to meet a train at the railroad station. Not many trains stop at Marceline, Mo., least of all the ponderous flier that groaned to a halt this night, dropping off brakemen with lanterns and a worried conductor...
Conductor. But it is John Joseph Kennedy who is to the New York Central what the commanders of flagships are to steamer lines. Of his apprenticeship as waterboy and brakeman he bears no mark. In the days of pin coupling, brakemen were seldom "set up" as conductors before they had managed to lose a finger or two. Conductor Kennedy's hands and memories are as smooth as a college professor's. The shield-shape perforation which he carefully makes in your ticket, in your presence', is done with the punch he used on his first passenger trip...