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railroader U.S.|ˈreɪlrəʊdə(r)|
[f. prec. n. or vb. + -er.]
One who is employed in the management or the working of a railroad.
1856Iroquois Republican (Middleport, Illinois) 8 May 3/2 A scuffle between young Walker, a railroader, and Cochran, a rail ripper. 1881Lewisburg Chron. No. 1938 Experienced railroaders..soon placed them again upon the rails. 1895Outing (U.S.) XXVI. 369/2 We had a most vigilant brakeman on the train,..I called the attention of this railroader. 1907Daily Chron. 20 Sept. 3/2 Here are particulars of some of the new novels which Messrs. Cassell will publish in October:-..‘Caleb Conover, Railroader’, by Mr. A. P. Terhune. 1973Sunday Bull. (Philadelphia) 14 Oct. (Parade Suppl.) 20 (Advt.), The Old West..shows you the people who met its most extraordinary challenges, people who became The Forty-Niners, The Trailblazers, The Railroaders. 1977Modern Railways Dec. 461/1 On the one hand he rages that the railroad's proposal to pay by the hour instead of by the mile would lower the American railroader to the social and economic level of his Soviet counterpart. |