yard-master

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noun A man employed under the manager of a railway to superintend a terminal yard, whose duty it is to see to the proper switching and distribution of cars coming into the yard, and to the proper making up of trains to be sent out of the yard.

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I climbed to a yard-master's tower above the Spillway and the yard-master, taking up his powerful field-glasses, swept the horizon, or rather the dam, and discovered the engine for me as a mariner discovers an island at sea.

Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Harry Alverson Franck 1921
He was so seriously crushed that he could not stand, and had to be laid out on the canvas tarpaulin which the yard-master had spread on the brick-strewn ground while the doctors of the ambulance worked over him.

The Mighty Burke 1911
A purple-faced truckman shouldered his way to the yard-master, and shook his fist under his nose.

The Day's Work - Volume 1 Rudyard Kipling 1900
Another man, with a piece of crumpled paper in his hand, said that the yard-master said that he was to say that if the other man said anything, he (the other man) was to shut his head.

The Day's Work - Volume 1 Rudyard Kipling 1900
The yard-master, with mild blue eyes, looked out over the howling truckmen at the waters in the moonlight beyond, and hummed:

The Day's Work - Volume 1 Rudyard Kipling 1900
The yard-master never looked up from his bundle of freight receipts.

The Day's Work - Volume 1 Rudyard Kipling 1900
As soon as we get to running, I'll be yard-master, and manage the selling and shipping.

A Daughter of the Land Gene Stratton-Porter 1893