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- noun Plural form of
yardmaster .
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Examples
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Also doing better: railroad conductors and yardmasters.
Manufacturing, Logistics See Job Gains Joe Light 2011
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Traffic in and out of the Cut was directed from towers at either entrance by yardmasters who kept in telephone contact with the various dumps and with a half-dozen small towers strung out along the line of excavation.
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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The yardmasters, who took their orders from the chief dispatcher at Empire, directed the passage of each loaded train to a particular dumping ground and ordered the right of way for the train when it hit the main line of the Panama Railroad.
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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Traffic in and out of the Cut was directed from towers at either entrance by yardmasters who kept in telephone contact with the various dumps and with a half-dozen small towers strung out along the line of excavation.
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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The yardmasters, who took their orders from the chief dispatcher at Empire, directed the passage of each loaded train to a particular dumping ground and ordered the right of way for the train when it hit the main line of the Panama Railroad.
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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Also doing better: railroad conductors and yardmasters.
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