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YARD ENGINEER

Specialty Definition: YARD ENGINEER

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Occupations

Drives switching locomotive within yard of railroad, industrial plant, quarry, construction project, or similar location to switch railroad cars for loading, unloading, and makeup or breakup of trains: Reads switching orders received from CONDUCTOR, YARD (r.r. trans.). Observes traffic signals in yard or in cab and operates locomotive in accordance with railroad rules and regulations. Observes arm or lantern signals from YARD COUPLER (r.r. trans.) or SWITCH TENDER (r.r. trans.) and moves controls to drive locomotive backwards or forwards to switch and couple cars. May assist in cleaning and lubricating engine. May talk to CONDUCTOR, YARD (r.r. trans.) or other yard workers via radio-telephone to give or receive switching information. May be designated according to type of locomotive driven as Locomotive Engineer, Gasoline (any industry). May operate switching diesel engine and be designated Engineer, Remote Control, Diesel (r.r. trans.). When employed by establishment other than railroad to operate switching locomotive at industrial plant, quarry, construction project, or similar location, may be designated Industrial-Locomotive Operator (any industry). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: YARD ENGINEER

Specialty definitions using "YARD ENGINEER": CAR-RETARDER OPERATOR, CONDUCTOR, YARDengine supervisorhead switcherLOAD-OUT SUPERVISOR, LOCOMOTIVE OPERATOR HELPERrailroad-car retarder operator, retarder operatorSWITCH TENDERyard supervisor. (references)

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Anagrams: YARD ENGINEER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-g-i-n-n-r-r-y"

-3 letters: endearing, engrained, grenadier, grenadine, redenying, reearning, rendering, rereading.

-4 letters: deringer, endanger, engender, engineer, enginery, gardener, garnered, greedier, greenery, greenier, grindery, readying, redrying, redyeing, reearned, regained, regainer, regeared, reindeer, renegade, yearning.

-5 letters: adenine, aginner, angered, angrier, darning, deanery, deaning, denying, deraign, derange, dernier, drainer, draying, dreeing, eagerer, earning, earring, energid, engined, engrain, enraged, gnarred.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: YARD ENGINEER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

59 41 52 44      45 4E 47 49 4E 45 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01011001 01000001 01010010 01000100 00100000 01000101 01001110 01000111 01001001 01001110 01000101 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#89 &#65 &#82 &#68 &#32 &#69 &#78 &#71 &#73 &#78 &#69 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0059 0041 0052 0044      0045 004E 0047 0049 004E 0045 0045 0052

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5935523823948414348393952

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