a flagman is an employee of the railroad who is assigned to protect contractors or anyone performing work on a railroad right of way. A flagman is also...

Flagman may refer to: Flagman (rail), an employee of the railroad who is assigned to protect anyone performing work on a railroad right of way Flagman...

crossings equipped with wigwags. The last wigwag on a main rail line, a Magnetic Flagman upper-quadrant at a rural crossing in Delhi, Colorado on the...

west of Spartanburg, South Carolina, strikes rear of stopped freight. Flagman jumps from electric ex-Pennsylvania Railroad combine no. 350 before impact...

protection required by the railroad's rules. The train's crew had not used a flagman before, and while it was a prescribed practice, it had fallen out of use...

and directly supervises the train crew, which can include a brakeman, flagman, ticket collector, assistant conductor, and on board service personnel...

the engineer to stop immediately. Torpedoes are generally placed by the flagman when protecting a train ahead. Torpedoes are about 2" × 2", red in color...

specific to single-track railways. The earliest rail cars were hauled by horses or mules. A mounted flagman on a horse preceded some early trains. Hand and...

of Jones's experience would have ignored a flagman and fusees (flares) and torpedoes exploded on the rail to alert him to danger. Contrary to what the...

obsolete because the workers they were used to communicate with (such as flagman) are now obsolete. In Norway these signals are used: These are some of...

types of early level crossings varied by location, but often, they had a flagman in a nearby booth who would, on the approach of a train, wave a red flag...

dispatching Engine driver Fettler: Railway Maintenance Worker Fireman Flagman Freight Conductor Ganger Geoff Geotechnical Engineer Length runner Locomotive...

Second 1 approaching – he ordered the fireman to get the train moving. The flagman lit a fusee and ran back down the track to warn the oncoming train, but...

creek below before bursting into flames, killing 39 of the 49 aboard. The flagman, J.J. Quinlan, acted heroically, running all the way to town and alerting...

to a hotbox on the locomotive's tender; the collision occurs before a flagman had time to protect the rear of the train. August 14 – Kyōbashi Station...

husband William Fitch Tanner and grievously injured John Miller, a railroad flagman, when they refused to give up trying to free her. September 4 – France...

had parted. A passenger offered to protect the northbound track but the flagman said that the crew in the front of the train would do so; the brakeman...

Centralized traffic control Dark territory – Section of railway without signals Flagman – A person who controls the passage of a train by a level crossing Track...

(43 m) from the train when he saw the flagman there and attempted to alert him, but did not know if the flagman saw his signal before the local came around...

authorities of each city or conurbation; disused passenger buildings, flagman posts, and signal boxes, sold to private individuals. According to Danielle...

fireman John Hodge (sometimes known as Dodge in other documents), and flagman James Robert Moody. Also aboard were various mail clerks including J.L...

reason why the turn is not allowed, such as "train" in the case of a rail or light rail crossing. [citation needed] A third type is known as a "doghouse"...

the shotgun and walked towards the locker room door. He shot 42-year-old flagman Robert Lee Blake, from Southgate, on the spot, before proceeding to also...

the stop indication of automatic signal 2581, and the warnings of the flagman of the circus train, and to be governed by them." The report was also critical...

new model, combining sight, motion and sound was dubbed the "Magnetic Flagman" and produced by the Magnetic Signal Company. First developed in concept...

first to caution, the next to danger. In addition as it was foggy the flagman placed two torpedoes on the line to protect the rear of the train. Passenger...

0 mpg‑imp). Each Dracar had a crew of three: motorman, flagman, and conductor. Doodlebug (rail car) "Drake Gasoline-Electric Railway Automotrice in Oklahoma"...

Then the uninjured crewmen remembered the Norwich Steamboat Train. A flagman was sent out, but was too late to get the speeding express to stop. At...

engineer to, for example, send out and then later recall the brakeman/flagman riding in the caboose.) Those rules marked with an asterisk (✱) must be...

for the accident. He had passed through two warning signals and passed a flagman from Train 214 prior to the accident. If he was unable to see these signals...