His early working life involved him following his father into working on the railways, then joining the Royal Navy, before becoming a fireman.

He was discharged as a fireman first class and returned to a life of drifting, working in Miami as a machinist in the mid-1950s, as a hotel maintenance man in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Jamaica during the 1960s, and as a helicopter mechanic in South Vietnam from 1969-1970.

He worked in his early working years as a fireman on the LMS.

John Reilly is a fireman who is still working only because he has lied about his age, and now faces his last voyage.

Conductor Harold Morrill, who had started working for the railroad as fireman in 1884, was promoted to superintendent ; but he continued to act as conductor through 1938.

A fireman working on a German DRB Class 52 | Class 52 steam locomotive.

In 1917, he was working as a fireman for the West Australian Railways when he saw an advertisement by the Australian army for experienced railwaymen to serve in France, and he enlisted on Saint Patrick's Day.

Later, he was a fisherman on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, ran a charter yacht, and served as a fireman on eleven trips to Cuba aboard a steamer.

Lewey claimed to have written the song the day after the accident, in which his cousin Albion Clapp was one of the two fireman killed aboard the ill-fated train.

It tells of how Jones and his fireman Sim Webb raced their locomotive to make up for lost time, but discovered another train ahead of them on the line, and how Jones remained on board to try to stop the train as Webb jumped to safety.

In December 1871 he left the railroad yards for work on the railways as a locomotive fireman for the same company.

The accident resulted in five deaths ( three passengers, the train guard, and the locomotive fireman ) and nine serious injuries.

The Conductor and Engineer, who is in charge of the locomotive ( s ) and any additional members of the " Engine Crew " ( fireman, pilot engineer ) share responsibility for the safe and efficient operation of the train and for the proper application of the railways ' rules and procedures.

Ivor the Engine was Smallfilms ' first production, and drew inspiration from Postgate's World War II encounter with Welshman Denzyl Ellis, a former railway locomotive fireman with the Royal Scot train, who described how steam engines came to life when you spent time steaming them up in the morning.

A commission of inquiry after the accident determined that the locomotive crew were aware of the danger at some point before the accident, as the driver had shut off the steam regulator valve and applied the emergency brakes, and the fireman had sanded the track for 700 metres.

The locomotive driver ( US: engineer ) worked on one side of the locomotive, and the fireman on the other ; the fireboxes separated them.

Blackfaced Charley Bryant and Dick Broadwell held the engineer and fireman in the locomotive.

It was founded on June 20, 1893, by railway workers gathered in Chicago, Illinois, and under the leadership of Eugene V. Debs ( locomotive fireman and later Socialist Presidential candidate ), the ARU, unlike the trade unions, incorporated a policy of unionizing all railway workers, regardless of craft or service.

Selected to crew the locomotive on its record attempt were driver Joseph Duddington ( a man renowned within the LNER for taking calculated risks ) and fireman Thomas Bray.

This prevented any immediate attempt to rescue the occupants of the first four carriages, who all died, together with the guard in the front guard ’ s van and the locomotive fireman.

The job of a locomotive fireman was physically demanding — strenuous, filthy, and dangerous.

These men had recently been forced to pass on the news of the fatal accident in a wreck of fellow fireman George Page to his grieving widow the previous month and decided to establish a mutual benefit society for those employed in the locomotive firemens ' trade.

First, a locomotive fireman leaving his family to go to work ; then, a train with its crew industriously fulfilling their assigned task.

In July 1880 a young locomotive fireman turned city clerk from Terre Haute, Indiana named Eugene V. Debs was elected as Grand Secretary and Treasurer of the B of LF.

Keyes commandeered a locomotive, bribed the engineer and fireman and set off.

The tender included a corridor connection and tunnel through the water tank giving access to the locomotive cab from the train to permit replacement of the driver and fireman without stopping the train.

The engineer is charged with operation of the locomotive, the fireman is responsible for maintaining the fire as well as the water level in the boiler and the conductor is responsible for the operation and safety of each station and train.

A crew consists of three individuals: the engineer ( charged with operation of the locomotive ), the fireman ( charged with operation of the boiler to provide the steam for the locomotive ), and the conductor ( charged with management and safe operation of the train and its passengers ).

The driver and fireman died in the locomotive, so the reason for the excessive speed was never established.

Starting his railroading career as a fireman on the Southern Pacific Railroad, he became a locomotive engineer on both passenger and freight trains.

She went on to remark that she had encountered pagans in jobs that ranged from " fireman to Ph. D. chemist " but that the one thing that she thought made them into an " elite " was as avid readers, something that she found to be very common within the pagan community despite the fact that avid readers constituted less than 20 % of the general population of the United States at the time.

Based on Postgate's wartime encounter with Welshman Denzyl Ellis, who used to be the fireman on the Royal Scot, it was remade in colour for the BBC in the 1970s.

The team played on a strictly amateur basis for 1895 at least, with a team featuring a number of works employees including Thomas Freeman ( ships fireman ), Walter Parks ( clerk ), Tom Mundy, Walter Tranter and James Lindsay ( all boilermakers ), William Chapman, George Sage, and William Chamberlain and apprentice riveter Charlie Dove.

* Orio Palmer, fireman who died while rescuing World Trade Center occupants on 9 / 11

Field Marshal Walter Model, known as " the Führer's fireman " for his reputation for stabilising dangerous situations, was appointed both OB West and commander of Army Group B on 16 August, but even he could not do justice to both jobs.

Jones went to work for the Mobile & Ohio RR and performed well and was promoted to brakeman on the Columbus, Kentucky, to Jackson, Tennessee, route, and then to fireman on the Jackson, Tennessee, to Mobile, Alabama, route.

His regular fireman on No. 638 was his close friend, John Wesley McKinnie, with whom he worked exclusively from about 1897 until he went to the passenger run out of Memphis with his next and last fireman, Sim Webb in 1900.

Jones ' African-American fireman, Simeon T. Webb ( born May 12, 1874 ), died in Memphis on July 13, 1957 at the age of 83.

During World War II Green served as a fireman in the Auxiliary Fire Service and these wartime experiences are echoed in his novel Caught ; they were also a strong influence on his subsequent novel, Back.

Even if the fireman held the lever down and increased the force on the rear valve, there was a corresponding reduction of force on the forward valve.

( A " fireman " situation is men on base in a tied or close game, hence a reliever ending such a threat is " putting out the fire.

" Weebl also made friends with a fireman while on holiday ( on close examination, the " fireman " in the photo in which he introduces him to Bob seems to resemble a penis ).