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On the railroads, a flagman is an employee of the railroad who is assigned to protect contractors or anyone performing work on a railroad right of way. A flagman is also assigned to protect a train that has stopped on a section of track.[1] When a train approaches a location a flagman is posted, the train crew will have to get permission from the flagman to pass the area.
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Before the advent of automated level crossing gates, and still where automatic gates are not installed, flagmen were also assigned to protect the crossings.[2] The flagman would stop road traffic from crossing the tracks as trains used the crossing.[3][4]
- ^ Collingwood, G.E. (March 1922). "Train Rules and Kindred Subjects". The Railroad Trainman. XXXIX (3). Mount Morris, IL: Kable Brothers Company: 146 – via Google Books.
- ^ U.S. Department of Commerce; Bureau of the Census (1930). Classified Index of Occupations; Fifteenth Census of the United States. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office. p. 160 – via Google Books.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Vaughan, Coleman C., ed. (1917). Laws Relating to Railroads. Lansing, Michigan: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., State Printers. pp. 46, 101 – via Google Books.
...every company... operating a railroad within this state, shall construct and maintain a gate or gates, or bridge, or maintain a flagman to signal trains at every highway or street crossing...
- ^ Peabody, J.A. (November 1922). "Highway Crossing Protection in Theory and Practice". Railway Signal Engineer. 15 (11): 422–426 – via Google Books.