yardmaster

But what limit is set to a switchman's courage I have never known, because I've never known one to balk at a yardmaster's order.

He was a yardmaster at the time of leaving the company's employ.

You wonder why they keep an expert yardmaster and half a dozen switching crews at Waverley.

Here is the yardmaster at a great interior railroad centre—we call it Somerset for the sake of convenience.

If not, he refuses to accept it from the yardmaster until it has been resealed, and makes a note of the occurrence.