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Re: Nicknames for switchcrew members
Author: trainjunkie
Date: 06-22-2011 - 11:13

Back in the day there were "switch tenders", whose only job was to line switches.

Here in L.A. on the UP back when I worked there the "pin puller" was only called that if you worked the hump job. The rest of the yard jobs had a "point man", a "field man", and a "foreman".

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