railroad workers
Locomotive crew members
Railroad workers are employees who build, maintain, or operate railroads—from engineers and conductors to track laborers and station agents.
The term often appears in historical and labor contexts: Railroad workers went on strike for better conditions.
In American history, railroad workers were central to westward expansion and early union organizing.
- gandy dancerRailroad maintenance laborer
- switchmanRail junction operator
- brakemanRail worker controlling deceleration
- conductorOne who directs musicians
- portersThose who carry baggage
engineer · Casey Jones · scheduler · yardmaster · fireman · steam engine · iron horse · hogger · locomotives · operations manager · flagman · collective bargaining · union dues · dispatcher · freight handlers · unions · labor strike · train stations
- Irish DiasporaIrish immigration, Irish Americans, Irish immigrants, Irish diaspora, emigration
- workersworkers, employee, employees, laborer, laborers
- Celtic DiasporaIrish diaspora, Irish Americans, Celtic heritage, Irish ancestry, Irish immigrants
- Chinese AmericaChinese Exclusion Act, Chinatown, Chinatowns, transcontinental railroad, Chinese laborers
- labor fictionfactory workers, labor strikes, labor movement, working class, labor
- labor historyAFL-CIO, workers, labor movement, CIO, laborers
railroad workerstruckers
Commercial freight drivers
pilots · longshoremen · bus drivers · teamsters · truck drivers
railroad workersrailroad barons
Powerful train industry magnates
railroad tycoons · Cornelius Vanderbilt · board of directors · corporate leadership · robber barons
railroad workersindependent contractors
Self-employed service providers