Also with hyphen. [f. TRAIN sb.1 (or v.1) + MAN sb.1]
† 1. A man belonging to a train band. Obs.
1654. H. L’Estrange, Chas. I. (1655), 106. The Lord Mayor … and the Sheriffs with a band of Train men, came down and made Proclamation.
2. A railway servant employed on a train. U.S.
1867. H. H. Locklin, in Rutland Daily Herald, 19 Dec., 2/3. I rode back and forward on the train frequently, but had nothing to do with running the train as conductor or other trainman.
1881. Chicago Times, 30 April. All train men … now in employment on the road.
1897. Kipling, Captains Courageous, 205. Old stories of the railroad that every trainman knows.
