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locomotive engineer

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Word History and Origins

Origin of locomotive engineer1

First recorded in 1885–90

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Example Sentences

“When things like this happen, the train can’t get loaded and we’re wasting hours of service,” said Thomas Moses, 49, a veteran locomotive engineer.

In the innermost, Atock, our locomotive engineer, and I chummed together.

The brakeman and the locomotive engineer and the mechanical engineer and the sailor all have the same spirit.

The yeggman, a strongly built slow talking man, looked like a skilled mechanic of a locomotive engineer.

Russ thought that he might become a "candy butcher" when he grew up, although at first he had decided to be a locomotive engineer.

He went out and as he walked down the track met the locomotive engineer, who stopped.

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