Train Hand

As the baggage car drew near the waiting truck a train-hand in blue, looking out of the car, called to some one within. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The sailor and the train-hand, the longshoreman and the teamster, transport them to the industrial centres. ❋ Henry Kalloch Rowe (N/A)

"It is very wonderful to feel that we are all brothers, and that so little a thing as bringing it home to a train-hand could move him so profoundly," finished Mr. Gosport, cheered by the success of his anecdote. ❋ Margaret Widdemer (1931)

The train-hand who had gone on to division headquarters returned with the snow-plough early in the afternoon, but what was more to the purpose he brought a whole cooked turkey with him, so the children had turkey, a ❋ Cyrus Townsend Brady (1890)

At every station there was somebody who remembered my riding in there when the Little Missouri round-up went down to the Indian reservation and then worked north across the Cannon Ball and up Knife and Green Rivers; or who had been an interested and possibly malevolent spectator when I had ridden east with other representatives of the cowmen to hold a solemn council with the leading grangers on the vexed subject of mavericks; or who had been hired as a train-hand when I had been taking a load of cattle to Chicago, and who remembered well how he and I at the stoppages had run frantically down the line of the cars and with our poles jabbed the unfortunate cattle who had lain down until they again stood up, and thereby gave themselves a chance for their lives; and who remembered how when the train started we had to clamber hurriedly aboard and make our way back to the caboose along the tops of the cattle cars. ❋ Hermann Hagedorn (1923)

"A burly white train-hand came in, and said, in a threatening way: ❋ Various (N/A)