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n. - A railroad employer who is in charge of a railway yard.

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  • In this connection also I mention the names of Jim Donohue, traveling engineer; W.H. Smith, trainmaster, and P. Randoff Morris and
  • One passenger train south was tied up just beyond the wreck, and in about an hour and a half the wrecker appeared in charge of the trainmaster.
  • Men to run the trains were hard to get, and Tom Porter, trainmaster, was putting in every man he could pick up without reference to age or color.
  • Speech left me entirely then, and I am afraid I would have been most beautifully thumped, had not Sanders, the trainmaster, come over and stopped him.
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