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railroad engineer

DEFINITIONS OF: railroad engineer

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n the operator of a railway locomotive

Synonyms:
engine driver, engineer, locomotive engineer
Examples:
John Luther Jones
United States railroad engineer who died trying to stop his train from crashing into another train; a friend wrote a famous ballad describing the incident (1864-1900)
Type of:
manipulator, operator
an agent that operates some apparatus or machine
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