| 11. | A young switchman arrives and the old man has to move . . . to nowhere.
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| 12. | One summer during college I worked as a switchman for the Santa Fe Railroad in Los Angeles.
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| 13. | One of the switchmen jumped on a bicycle and unsuccessfully attempted to catch up with the train.
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| 14. | The transcontinental train arrived at Simpson's first and had a confused exchange with the switchman.
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| 15. | The switchman then tells a story of certain train rides when the trains arrived at impossible locations.
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| 16. | In 1892 the unit was called to active duty during the Switchman's Strike in Buffalo.
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| 17. | At this period, railway unions such as the Switchmen's Union avoided strikes wherever possible.
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| 18. | He relocated to Tucson, Arizona, and was employed as a switchman by the Southern Pacific Railroad.
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| 19. | But the defeat of the Buffalo switchmen's union proved to be a powerful lesson in labor unity.
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| 20. | Railway employee who is in control of pulling railcars from a classification yard using locomotive engines and railway switchmen.
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