Say, I'm an old railroader, I am, and I know the ropes.

The irate old railroader kicked over the wooden cuspidor in disgust.

As any old railroader can testify, trainhands are forever finding in box-cars every genus and species of stray.

Johnny sat in the cab with them, filling the air with smoke, stories, and old railroader jokes that only the brakeman hadn't heard before.