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Re: Nicknames for switchcrew members
Author: John West
Date: 06-21-2011 - 20:15

Been a long time but I seem to remember yard jobs having a foreman, pin puller, and field man. In my experience I attach the term "swing man" to a third brakeman in trainmen's territory, where you had a conductor, head man, flagman, and occasionally a swing man. But I agree with the comment that this could and probably did vary by railroad....my experience was primarily with the SP Coast Division.

JBWX

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  Re: Nicknames for switchcrew members Marty Bernard 06-21-2011 - 19:57
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  Re: Nicknames for switchcrew members Jerry Kinney 06-21-2011 - 21:05
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