- the
United States where brakemen carry out a
variety of
functions both on the
track and
within trains. In Germany, the
brakemen occupied brakeman's cabins...
- The
Brakemen's Brotherhood was an
early American railroad brotherhood established in 1873. The
group was a
secret society organizing railroad brakemen into...
-
employees founded in 1883.
Originally called the
Brotherhood of
Railroad Brakemen, its
purpose was to
negotiate contracts with
railroad management and to...
- age 18 as a shop labourer, be
promoted to
skilled mechanic at age 24,
brakemen at 25,
freight conductor at 27, and p****enger
conductor at age 57. White-collar...
- the
Conductors Union founded in 1868.
Later it
extended membership to
brakemen. In 1969 the ORC
merged with
three other unions to form the
United Transportation...
-
Meridian next
hosted minor league baseball in 1996, when the "Meridian
Brakemen"
began a two-season
tenure as
members of the
independent Big
South League...
- to be
augmented by
brakemen applying the
wagon brakes individually.[citation needed] In the
early years of the railway,
brakemen just had an open seat...
-
braking systems in the late 19th century,
American railroads emplo****
brakemen to move
about the tops of cars,
setting hand
brakes on the engineer's signal...
-
exists for a
number of such "ghost lights", and it's not
likely "headless
brakemen"
could be such a
common occurrence. The
light has been
proposed to be the...
-
locomotive cut the car in half,
killing my
father instantly. When two
brakemen jumped from the
halted train, they saw a
woman standing –
dazed but erect...
