Sentences with phrase «railroad brakeman»
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.
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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.
«One of my hopes for the book,» she notes, «is that it helps explain this recent history that I don't think is really reflected in very many history books — what life was like for people who did those jobs, whether it was working as a brakeman on the railroad and getting paid less than a white man doing the same job, or only being allowed to do the janitorial job even though you went to college.»
From 1960 to 1964, he was a freight brakeman and conductor for the Pennsylvania Railroad in New Jersey.
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.