rail workers
Locomotive industry employees
Rail workers are employees of railroad companies—those who operate, maintain, or support train transportation systems.
The term encompasses engineers, conductors, track maintenance crews, and station personnel.
Rail workers appear frequently in discussions of labor history and union organizing: The rail workers threatened to strike over safety conditions.
- yardmasterTrain depot manager
- freight yardRail hub for cargo
- brakemanRail worker controlling deceleration
- cabooseCrew shelter, train's end
- tieEqual score, or neckwear
yard · fireman · steam locomotive · diesel engine · trackmen · gandy dancer · scheduler · conductor · tracklayers · track maintenance · picket · union strike · shunter · porter · dispatcher · train station · signalman · engineer
- workersemployee, employees, laborer, laborers, wage earner
- railroadstrains, train, tracks, track, locomotive
- European Railtrains, tracks, platforms, train stations, locomotives
- Railroad Historyconductors, firemen, brakemen, porters, switchmen
- railroad jobsconductors, engineers, brakemen, firemen, switchmen
- Old Westcowboy, cowboys, cowgirl, sheriff, sheriffs
role in rail system
rail workerscommuters
Daily work travelers
riders · travelers · passengers · customers