Sentences with word «brakeman»

She acted as brakeman for driver Mica McNeil as they won silver in the women's bobsleigh, Team GB's first - ever medal at the event.

And it wasn't just the trains themselves that became legends - so did the drivers, firemen, engineers and brakemen who ran them, often immortalised in songs like Casey Jones and John Henry.

For five years, between 1960 and 1965, the artist worked freight brakeman and conductor in New Jersey and focused all of his free time on writing poetry.

He was honoring a commitment made before he had retired from the law to become a full - time writer: representing the family of a railroad brakeman killed when he was pinned between two cars.

His works and materials — granite blocks and other cut or natural stone, bricks, raw wooden timbers, steel plates, and repeating geometric shapes of various other metals — reflect the quarries, shipyards, and islands of his birthplace and his years spent as a freight - train brakeman.

From 1960 to 1964, he was a freight brakeman and conductor for the Pennsylvania Railroad in New Jersey.

A lot of times when I survive the run, I think: Thank God, and then the next thing I think is: Did I beat up my brakeman?

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains You never change your socks And the little streams of alcohol Come trickling down the rocks The brakemen have to tip their hats And the railway bulls are blind There's a lake of stew And of whiskey too You can paddle all around it In a big canoe In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

As Mesler jumps in, so does 29 - year - old Curt Tomasevicz, the brakeman.

Monti, who with his partner and brakeman, Renzo Alvera, has four times won the two - man world championships, said before race of the two extra teammates who rode sandwiched between him and Alvera: «All I ask of them is that they sit still.

Beginning his career in 1966 as a brakeman for the Western Maryland Railroad, he has devoted most of his professional life to helping young people learn by doing — connecting education to the opportunities, challenges, and many different rewards to be found through work.

There's always a need for car hosts, brakemen, conductors, depot staff, shop personnel, track maintainers and more!

On occasion, brakemen and other rails slip him a little money, which he accepts as part of his «salary.»

I had a few scary moments, as we slowed descended the steep mountain, especially when there was a steep drop on one side of the carriage, and I felt myself clutching my hands tightly; but there was no need to fear, because fortunately the brakeman who operated our train was very experienced at his job and we arrived back at the bottom station with no problems!

The brakeman gave a running and informative commentary as we climbed the mountain, telling us the history of the railway and pointing out interesting sights.

From 1960 to 1964, he worked as a freight brakeman and conductor for the Pennsylvania Railroad in New Jersey, later claiming that the repetition of shapes in train carriages and railway lines had a significant impact on his art.

Receive train orders and explain orders to brakemen / women, locomotive engineer and other crew members.