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This page is for various Railroad-related character types, until they have enough examples to split off into pages of their own.
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* "Mr. Conductor" from ''[[Shining Time Station]]'', though [[The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything|he never seems to do any actual conducting]].
* ''[[Young Frankenstein]]''. Frederick rides in two trains, one in the U.S. and the other in Transylvania. The conductor is exactly the same guy in both trains, except he's wearing a different uniform. See it on YouTube, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgGGx2Or0Wc starting at 3:45].
* The ''Flying Pussyfoot'' of ''[[Baccano!]]!'' has a full complement of three conductors at the start of the trip. The oldest, Tony, [[Retirony|mentions that this is his last run before he hangs up his cap.]] The middle-aged one {{spoiler|is [[The Mole]] for the Lemures}}, and the youngest, well, that's even more spoilery.
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* Perhaps the most famous [[Real Life]] engineer is John Luther "Casey" Jones, who was immortalized in song for his death in a crash (but having used his final moments to brake the train, preventing any other fatalities.)
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* Another famous railroad engineer is the Mexican Jesús García, the Hero of Nacozari. A train full of explosives was on fire, so he drove it away from the town, saving it from impending doom. Of course, he was vaporized.
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* Inspector Gustave from both the film and book versions of [[Hugo]] is a good fictional example.
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* [[Charles Dickens]] wrote a short ghost story entitled ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130531081243/http://gaslight.mtroyal.ca/mugbysgn.htm The Signal-Man]'' which is about the eponymous signalman, his lonely signal box located in an isolated railway cutting, and the supernatural occurrences that happen nearby.
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* There is a very good description of what the builders did in one of the ''[[Little House on the Prairie]]'' books by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
* Gordon Lightfoot's ''Canadian Railroad Trilogy'' is about building the Trans-Canada Line.
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