Yard Master

I climbed to a yard-master's tower above the Spillway and the yard-master, taking up his powerful field-glasses, swept the horizon, or rather the dam, and discovered the engine for me as a mariner discovers an island at sea. ❋ Harry Alverson Franck (1921)

He was so seriously crushed that he could not stand, and had to be laid out on the canvas tarpaulin which the yard-master had spread on the brick-strewn ground while the doctors of the ambulance worked over him. ❋ Unknown (1911)

A purple-faced truckman shouldered his way to the yard-master, and shook his fist under his nose. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

Another man, with a piece of crumpled paper in his hand, said that the yard-master said that he was to say that if the other man said anything, he (the other man) was to shut his head. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

The yard-master, with mild blue eyes, looked out over the howling truckmen at the waters in the moonlight beyond, and hummed: ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

The yard-master never looked up from his bundle of freight receipts. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

As soon as we get to running, I'll be yard-master, and manage the selling and shipping. ❋ Gene Stratton-Porter (1893)