At the same time George Hanson, oldest railroad switchman here, announced he would retire today, winding up 41 years of service for the Pere Marquette at the north yard here. He is to receive a ...

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An investigation is under way into an accident in which a 67-year-old railway switchman was crushed to death Tuesday after becoming trapped between two railroad cars in Bedford Park. Eugene Janik ...

One day last fall, Railroad Switchman Lyman Mintkenbaugh of Castro Valley, Calif., got a call from his brother James, 46, an Arlington, Va., real estate salesman who had recently come West and ...

Following a Feb. 9, 2022, accident involving a BNSF Railway switchman who was struck and killed by a train during a switching movement in the railroad’s Denver, Colo., Globeville Yard, the Class I has ...

A divided Missouri appellate panel has upheld a $12 million jury verdict in favor of a Kansas City Southern Railway switchman who was run over by a train in Illinois. The verdict now stands as one ...

William D. Stockwell, a retired captain in the Buffalo Police Department and a railroad switchman for 40 years, died Sunday (June 23, 2002) in his home after a 16-month illness. He was 71.

In winter the rail-switches on streetcar tracks in Winnipeg froze and jammed with freezing mud and snow. Keeping them clean, whatever the weather, was the job of the switchman.