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Rail transport worker role
A switchman (North America) also known as pointsman (British Isles) or yardman (Commonwealth) is a rail transport worker whose original job was to operate
Switchman
The Switchman (Original title: El Guardagujas) is an existentialist short story by Mexican writer Juan José Arreola. The short story was originally published
The_Switchman
Canadian actor and narrator (1928–2018)
to Scottish parents Mary and James Rain. His father was a rail yard switchman and his mother was a nurse. His parents emigrated to Canada from Glasgow
Douglas_Rain
Criminals Social Worker Television film 1996 The Sentinel The Switchman Episode: "The Switchman" Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years Frances Phillips 2 episodes
List of Molly Parker performances
List_of_Molly_Parker_performances
Thought experiment in ethics
variation, the railway's switchman controlled the switch, and the lone individual to be sacrificed (or not) was the switchman's child. The German philosopher
Trolley_problem
American intercity passenger rail operator
Illinois Central Gulf freight train due to misaligned switches changed by a switchman shortly before the train passed them. 2 38 1987 Maryland train collision
Amtrak
American actor (1894–1974)
Vergie Winters Roscoe – a gossiper uncredited Murder in the Private Car Switchman uncredited Whom the Gods Destroy Clifford uncredited Death on the Diamond
Walter_Brennan
American baseball player (1878-1937)
remained his legal name; the card listed his occupation as a railroad switchman, aged 40, married, and living in his hometown of Toledo, Ohio. "Draft
Nig_Fuller
1905 film
daughter of a railway switchman and lover of a locomotive engineer defeats outlaws trying to derail a train. The daughter of a switchman, after having wished
The_Train_Wreckers
American mass murderer (1941–1991)
before she was married, and her husband Gene worked nights as a railroad switchman. Speck told them an unbelievable story about having to leave Monmouth
Richard_Speck
Canadian filmmaker (1926–2012)
Party - documentary short 1953 - director Paul Tomkowinkz: Street-Railway Switchman - documentary short 1953 - co-writer with Stanley Jackson, co-editor and
Roman_Kroitor
changes from the book, including the omission of the drunkard (tippler), switchman and merchant characters; the removal of a great deal of the narration
The_Little_Prince_(play)
Jamaican-Canadian actor (born 1969)
Lt. Lockhart 4 episodes 1996 The Sentinel Captain Mathis Episode: "The Switchman" Viper Carpenter Episode: "Winner Take All" Highlander: The Series Derek
Roger_Cross
Eyewitness to President Kennedy assassination (1925–1966)
convalescent home. On the day of the JFK assassination, Bowers was a railroad switchman working in the Union Terminal Company's two-story interlocking tower.
Lee_Bowers
NKVD director under Joseph Stalin (1895–1940)
in a military band, and after being demobilized, he worked as railroad switchman and forest warden. On further questioning, he acknowledged his father
Nikolai_Yezhov
Originating Register, with reed relay reader by which a switchman can see what phone number is stored
Number Five Crossbar Switching System
Number_Five_Crossbar_Switching_System
1943 novella by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
heart, not the eyes. The prince then met two people from Earth: A railway switchman who described how passengers constantly rushed from one place to another
The_Little_Prince
24, 2006. Jeffrey Burns – general contractor Bill Chambers – railroad switchman Robert C. Newman II – psychologist and farmer Arnold Schwarzenegger –
2006 California gubernatorial election
2006_California_gubernatorial_election
American billionaire and businessman
he worked several jobs, including as an ice cream salesman, a railroad switchman, a roustabout in an oil field, and as a caddie. He attended Santa Barbara
Charles_R._Schwab
American marine (1890–1951)
Fredericksburgh, Ontario, after the Revolution. Diamond worked as a railroad switchman before enlisting in the Marine Corps following the American entry into
Lou_Diamond
office in California has changed partisan control. Bill Chambers, railroad switchman Douglas Hughes, retired business owner Ken Miller, former broadcast manager
2010 California gubernatorial election
2010_California_gubernatorial_election
Metra train station in Harvey, Illinois, United States
Commercial Avenue, and 156th Street. On the evening of October 12, 1979, a switchman incorrectly aligned a switch in front of an oncoming Amtrak train, leading
Harvey_station_(Illinois)
American politician
State Assembly. Mace was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He eventually became a switchman and switch foreman on the Great Northern Railway and settled in Superior
James_S._Mace
Switchman? Russian Railways Restructuring After Ten Years," working paper, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 2011. Blame the Switchman?
Rail_transport_in_Russia
American politician
later worked for the Pullman Company and Erie Railroad as a mechanic and switchman. He was president of the Buffalo local for the Switchmen's Union of North
James_M._Mead
2009 studio album by Jason Molina and Will Johnson
Jack Delano for the Office of War Information: Indiana Harbor Belt RR, switchman demonstrating signal with a "fusee" - used at twilight and dawn - when
Molina_and_Johnson
American socialist
John H. Gibbons (April 15, 1869 – May 16, 1949) was an American railroad switchman and politician who served one term as mayor of Lackawanna, New York. He
John_H._Gibbons_(mayor)
Type of automatic telephone exchange
routine selector test frame. When testing was to be done manually by a switchman, he or she used a Tea Wagon, which was wheeled to the apparatus to be
Panel_switch
Mexican national hero (1881–1907)
Company, but due to his age, he was made a water boy. He was promoted to switchman, then to brakeman and eventually to fireman. García was the railroad brakeman
Jesús_García
Railway incident in Sweden
absolving the injured woman of all responsibility. The report states that a switchman had secured the "dead man's switch" in its depressed position with a foreign
2013_Saltsjöbanan_train_crash
American railroad executive
11, 1944) is a fourth generation railroader who began his career as a switchman/brakeman in 1963 for the Missouri Pacific Railroad in his hometown of
Mike_Haverty
1960 railway accident in Czechoslovakia
office, but returned after a while to set the track for train 653. The switchman went away to operate switch number 4 to set up for the future departure
Stéblová_train_disaster
Forklift operator, Generator, Pump or Compressor plant operator, Signalman, Switchman, Conveyor operator, Fireman, Skiploader operator, Helicopter radioman
List_of_construction_trades
American pastor (1934–2023)
His father had served in the military as a young man and worked as a switchman for the Southern Pacific Railroad. Hayford's mother, Dolores, was a Bible
Jack_W._Hayford
Railway network spanning Russia
Trans-Siberian Railway—the distance from Moscow to Vladivostok. Bashkir switchman near the town Ust' Katav on the Yuryuzan River between Ufa and Chelyabinsk
Trans-Siberian_Railway
Soviet sea captain (1908–1999)
born at the Okeanskaya Station near Vladivostok in a family of a railway switchman. In 1925 she entered the navigation department of the Vladivostok Marine
Anna_Shchetinina
Ukrainian bureaucrat and politician (1946–2004)
Archived from the original on 14 May 2024. Retrieved 9 July 2025. "New switchman of Transportation Ministry". ForUm. 11 May 2002. Archived from the original
Heorhiy_Kirpa
Research and scientific development company
new ESS also came with its own diagnostic software that needed only a switchman and several frame technicians to maintain. About 1970, the coax-22 cable
Bell_Labs
1979 crash with two fatalities
as a switchman by the ICG on November 26, 1952, and was promoted to engine foreman on June 13, 1953, then to yardmaster around 1967. Switchman Gregory
Harvey, Illinois, train collision
Harvey,_Illinois,_train_collision
of Representatives Hjalmar Petersen, Former governor James Dougherty, Switchman Joseph A. Ryan Harry H. Peterson, Former Minnesota Attorney General and
1950 Minnesota gubernatorial election
1950_Minnesota_gubernatorial_election
Canadian athlete (1958–1981)
1958, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, to Rolland and Betty Fox. Rolland was a switchman for the Canadian National Railway. Fox spent his childhood in the Transcona
Terry_Fox
American baseball player (1932–2009)
Cardinals' 1967 World Series Championship team. He was nicknamed "The Switchman" for his ability to "turn out the lights" on opposing batters. Born on
Hal_Woodeshick
2013 novel by Yu Hua
honest and reserved man born on a moving train. He was adopted by a young switchman and raised with love. At the age of 41, Yang died in a gas explosion in
The_Seventh_Day_(novel)
Major railway and metro station in Japan
Hara Takashi was stabbed to death by an 18-year-old right-wing railway switchman in front of the south wing as he arrived to board a train for Kyoto. The
Tokyo_Station
American labor union leader, politician and attorney (1849–1924)
deaf in one ear. At the age of 13 he began work for the railroad as a switchman with the Delaware and Hudson Railway, before becoming a car examiner,
Terence_V._Powderly
1913 film
Harry Carey. Henry B. Walthall as The Switchman Claire McDowell as The Switchman's Wife Marion Emmons as The Switchman's Son Lionel Barrymore as First Counterfeiter
The_Switch_Tower
engine, which was stationary on the side track. Lawrence Mahoney, the switchman, said the track switch had been opened five minutes before the passenger
Canadian_National_242
1956 film by Francis D. Lyon
as Alex, a Confederate soldier singing on troop train W.S. Bearden as Switchman Harvey Hester as Jess McIntyre Chuck Roberson as Confederate Prison Captain
The_Great_Locomotive_Chase
Train collision in 2018 in Turkey
that he "ordered the switchman to put the high-speed train on track H1 as the locomotive was on track H2". He added that "the switchman did not confirm his
Marşandiz_train_collision
Model of diesel-electric locomotive
diesels or other road switchers), making it difficult for the brakeman or switchman to move from one point on the locomotive to another during switching operations
EMD_BL2
American labor strike
April 8 a striker named John Gibbons was fatally shot by a "non-union switchman and private watchman" in St. Louis. The exercise of state police power
Great Southwest railroad strike of 1886
Great_Southwest_railroad_strike_of_1886
Dutch train collision in 1874
necessary escape tools. Additionally, questions arose about whether a switchman should be the sole individual responsible for such a crucial task, given
1874_Warmond_train_accident
Canadian television actor
seaQuest DSV Matthew "Daggers" 1996 The Sentinel Master Sergeant "The Switchman" 1996 The Outer Limits Bartender "Inconstant Moon" 1996 Poltergeist: The
William_deVry
Intermodal hub in Washington, D.C.
out of the platforms, he discovered that he only had engine brakes. A switchman on the approach to the station noticed the runaway train and telephoned
Washington_Union_Station
Locomotive powered by a diesel engine
locomotives continue to have two-person crews: an engineer and a conductor/switchman) and the operating environment is much more attractive, being quieter
Diesel_locomotive
American actor (1908–1955)
Country Girl (1954) as Paul Unger The Great Locomotive Chase (1956) as A Switchman (posthumous release; final film role) "Robert Kent". Complete Index To
Robert_Kent_(actor)
American jazz, swing, and bluegrass Fiddler (1928–2005)
Space Center in Florida as a plumber, in a Georgia paper mill, and as switchman for Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. He even sold insurance and once operated
Vassar_Clements
American photographer and manager (1945–2014)
24, 1945, in or near Louisville, Kentucky, to Ova Childers, a railroad switchman, and Harriet Black, who later went by Kathlyn Black Stone. He had two
Leee_Black_Childers
Fail-safe power braking system with compressed air as the operating medium
car that was immediately ahead of the cut will have been closed by the switchman to maintain brake pipe pressure. Typically, testing is limited to observing
Railway_air_brake
American film and television actor
McConnell Story (1955) - Janitor (uncredited) I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955) - Switchman (uncredited) Storm Center (1956) - Bill the Elevator Operator (uncredited)
George_Selk
American actor (1878–1936)
film 1913 Death's Marathon The Husband Short 1913 The Switch Tower The Switchman Short 1913 The Mothering Heart Club Patron Short, Uncredited 1913 The
Henry_B._Walthall
1977 train collision in GDR
way of checking the position of the northern exit switches. Instead, a switchman was on duty, who was informed of the required route setting by the train
Lebus_train_collision
Italian-American Tenpin Bowler (1891–1984)
settled in Brooklyn. As a teenager, he worked as a pin boy, delivery boy, switchman, and in a soap factory. He first bowled at the Fraternity Hall alleys
Andy_Varipapa
American mother of Marilyn Monroe (1902–1984)
her house. She married a second time to Lyle Arthur Graves, a railway switchman supervisor at Pacific Electric, on March 7, 1912. They lived in Los Angeles
Gladys_Pearl_Baker
sees by some old newspapers in the attic is the switchman who died. He shows his father, using the switchman figure from the train set to demonstrate, which
List of The Haunting Hour: The Series episodes
List_of_The_Haunting_Hour:_The_Series_episodes
1871 fatal train collision
estimated at 7–8 miles per hour (11–13 km/h). Dan Carroll, the station's switchman, noticed sparks coming from the tracks underneath one of the tank cars
New_Hamburg_rail_disaster
American political activist (died 1928)
Ireland and he lost his right leg when he was 13. He had substituted for a switchman who was off on a post-payday drunk, at a coal mine in Braidwood, Illinois
George_E._Brennan
Prime Minister of Japan from 1918 to 1921
to death by Nakaoka Kon'ichi [ja], a right-wing nationalist railroad switchman, at Tokyo Station while catching a train to Kyoto for a party conference
Hara_Takashi
Czech serial killer
served only 4 years and 9 months. After serving her sentence, she became a switchman at České dráhy, but continued engaging in prostitution, later drugging
Jaroslava_Fabiánová
1971 film directed by Robert Butler
Wendell Iris Adrian as Mavis Larry D. Mann as Bartender Jack Raine as Switchman Booth Colman as Governor Murray Edward Faulkner as Hillary Bill Zuckert
Scandalous_John
American pioneer railroad (1864–1870)
train arrived at Simpson's first and had a confused exchange with the switchman. Assuming that the local had already passed, the transcontinental train
San Francisco and Alameda Railroad
San_Francisco_and_Alameda_Railroad
1973 Soviet film
Sergey Dreyden as architect Natalya Gundareva as Klava Lyudmila Ivanova as switchman Valentin Nikulin as a visitor to the bath Raisa Ryazanova as weaver Умер
Looking_for_a_Person
American football player (1921–2003)
knee. After the injury, he left school and went to work as a railroad switchman in Georgia. After his knee healed, Paschal got a tryout with the New York
Bill_Paschal
Mexican writer, academic, and actor (1918–2001)
de plata, and in 1962, Confabulario total. In 1962, he published "The Switchman" (El Guardagujas). In 1959 he was the founding director of the Casa del
Juan_José_Arreola
Iranian writer, poet, film director and screenwriter
(1997–98) Mantegh-ot-Tayr (The Conference of the Birds) (1999) Soozanbaan (Switchman) (1968) Dir. Manouchehr Tayyab Soo-ye Shahr-e Khamoush (Onto Silent City)
Mohammad_Reza_Aslani
mate: Phil Ratté, perennial candidate Jon Hillson, St. Paul railroad switchman (Socialist Workers) Running mate: Leah Finger John Marty, state senator
1994 Minnesota gubernatorial election
1994_Minnesota_gubernatorial_election
American politician (1892–1954)
member of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, and then worked as a railroad switchman to put himself through dental school at Saint Louis University. After
Lester_C._Hunt
American chemical researcher (1906–1995)
Waco, Texas, to Viola (Herring) and Largus Elonzo ("Lonnie") Jeanes, a switchman and later a yardmaster for the Cotton Belt Route of the St. Louis Southwestern
Allene_Jeanes
2023 train collision in Greece, killing 57 people
had been restored. Just before the train entered Larissa station, the switchman returned the train to its correct, northbound track. The train disembarked
Tempi_train_crash
while, and then reverses again to continue in the original direction Switchman A railroad worker responsible for assembling trains and switching railroad
Glossary of rail transport terms
Glossary_of_rail_transport_terms
Folk legend of Port Tampa, Florida
Peterson, known locally as "Ole Pete", was said to be either a roustabout, switchman or longshoreman employed by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in Port Tampa
Ole_Pete
December 25, 1874 in Cleveland, Ohio. Around 1905 he was a railroad switchman in Cleveland, Ohio when he was hit by a train and lost both arms. He attended
David_Moylan
policy of Mexico 1994–2000, Mexico, El Colegio de México-ITESM, 2002. "The Switchman. Fragments of the 'Introduction of the publisher' to the critical edition
Francisco_Gil_Villegas
American businessperson, public servant, inventor and politician
Indianapolis, Indiana, where he worked in the railroad industry. He was a switchman and a dispatcher. Circa 1907, he worked as a motorman on the Martinsville-Indianapolis
Alvan_V._Burch
Title Directed by Written by Original release date Prod. code 1 1 "The Switchman" Danny Bilson Paul DeMeo & Danny Bilson March 20, 1996 (1996-03-20) 001
List_of_The_Sentinel_episodes
1949, in Saskatoon. He graduated from Martin Collegiate and worked as a switchman for the Canadian National Railways before following his brother, Mal Isaac
Dale_Isaac
Russian chemist and photographer (1863–1944)
Pinchas Karlinskiy, supervisor of a floodgate at Chernigov, 1910 Bashkir switchman near Ust-Katav, 1910 Woman in traditional dress standing on rug in front
Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky
Takashi, Prime Minister of Japan Nakaoka Kon'ichi, a right-wing railroad switchman 26 August 1931 Osachi Hamaguchi, Prime Minister of Japan Tomeo Sagoya
List of assassinations in Asia
List_of_assassinations_in_Asia
Canadian filmmaker (1918–2011)
documentary short, David Bennett 1953 - producer Paul Tomkowicz: Street-railway Switchman - documentary short, Roman Kroitor 1953 - editor, co-producer with Roman
Tom_Daly_(filmmaker)
American novelist (1919–2012)
apprentice, assistant to the assistant editor" of a union newspaper, railroad switchman and columnist for The Daily Worker. Saxton published his first novel,
Alexander_Saxton
tumultuous labor struggles of 1877. In June of that year James Cullerton, a switchman for the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway, sent word to the various
Switchmen's Mutual Aid Association
Switchmen's_Mutual_Aid_Association
Georgian politician
2013 UNM presidential nomination. After working as an electrician and a switchman in Tbilisi for years, Malashkhia enrolled into the Tbilisi State Medical
Shota_Malashkhia
Person controlling the movement of trains
as such, but is also known under other names, including Leverman and Switchman. At some locations, a Station master or Porter performs signalling duties
Rail_signaller
JA Gordon (machinist), S Myton (conductor on Asher line), L Sterret (switchman) Type and origin Power type Steam Specifications Configuration: • Whyte
Rock_Island_1891_Old_Beck
1934 film by Harry Beaumont
as Conductor in Holton Walter Brennan as Switchman Raymond Brown as Bertillion Man James P. Burtis as Switchman Jack Cheatham as Foreman Ray Corrigan as
Murder_in_the_Private_Car
American actor
(1934) - Frazier The Westerner (1934) - Sheriff Mills of the Gods (1934) - Switchman Love Me Forever (1935) - Henchman / Head Carpenter (uncredited) Sutter's
Albert_J._Smith_(actor)
American locomotive engineer (1821–1899)
should run off before or after receiving a signal to go forward from a switchman or any other person. The engineer, under this rule, was expected to see
Benjamin_Hafner
Listen, Live. They also have a few[quantify] trucks used to move the switchman around, and move maintenance crews around, and they have maintenance of
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Manitoba
Burlington_Northern_Santa_Fe_Manitoba
American railroad heroine and teacher
there were apparently men interested in Shelley, supposedly including the switchman in the yard at Moingona, she never married and lived most of her life
Kate_Shelley
Village in New York, United States
Yard Master of the Rail Road in 1900s, Member of Lodge 56 and Master Switchman then later Grand Master of Lodge 115 in Jersey City, New Jersey of the
Piermont,_New_York
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