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- noun Plural form of
brakeman .
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Examples
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It was built in 1888 to house the engineers, conductors and brakemen from the new transcontinental railroad that had just reached territorial Arizona, and was both the first-built and the last-standing two-story adobe building in Tucson.
July 2007 2007
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It was built in 1888 to house the engineers, conductors and brakemen from the new transcontinental railroad that had just reached territorial Arizona, and was both the first-built and the last-standing two-story adobe building in Tucson.
My First Dead Body 2007
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The brakemen are his assistants, and stay with him to the end of the division; the engineer and fireman, with their engine, are cut off at the end of their division also.
Stories of Inventors The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers Russell Doubleday 1910
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Because railroads resisted installing air-brakes because it was cheaper to replace brakemen than buy brakes.
Hal Donahue: "Capitalists" Didn't Build America; We Did Hal Donahue 2010
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And we'd watch the brakemen and the trainmen do it.
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And we'd watch the brakemen and the trainmen do it.
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And we'd watch the brakemen and the trainmen do it.
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The three brakemen needed about eight hundred feet to stop a train going ten miles per hour, Worthen said.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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And we'd watch the brakemen and the trainmen do it.
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And we'd watch the brakemen and the trainmen do it.
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