Meanings of railroad shop in English

He was a mechanic, having worked for years in the railroad shops.

Some of these men have trades and are capable of working in railroad shops.

When I was able to work, I worked in the railroad shops-boilermaker's helper.

After I married my present husband in 1879, he worked in the Missouri Pacific railroad shops.

Out of one of his study windows he could see the tall chimney of the railroad shops.

He was a mechanic in the railroad shops, near Newberry, when the first call for volunteers was made.

He's been working in the railroad shops what times he wasn't pullin' off something crooked in the p'litical line.

It is not surprising, therefore, that he left school at an early age to engage in actual work in railroad shops.

There was Alexander Powers, superintendent of the great railroad shops in Raymond, a typical railroad man, one who had been born into the business.

In his best days he had been a master mechanic of the railroad shops; at sixty he was foreman of one of the steel mills.

That led to my knowing a little about mechanical engineering, and when I felt the "quad" for good I went into the Alton Railroad shops.