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  • n  a railroad employer who is in charge of a railway yard

  • As a civil engineer, Don Russell helped boss the double-tracking of Southern's line across the mile-high Sierra Nevadas, worked up through roadmaster, trainmaster and assistant .
  • Son of a railroadman and educated at the University of Illinois, Aydelott highballed up through the ranks from laborer to gang foreman and track inspector, became trainmaster in .
  • The trainmaster's whistle shrilled, the train chuffed away.

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