switchman

But what limit is set to a switchman's courage I have never known, because I've never known one to balk at a yardmaster's order.

He was a good switchman and more than ordinarily intelligent.

A railroad switchman who faces the company's president after saving a train from destruction might wear just that expression.

The next night he told me to keep the key till the old switchman came back on duty—so he must have had an extra one of his own.

He snatched a lantern from the hand of a bewildered switchman and stumbled again toward the overturned car.