Definition of "railroad engineer" []

• The operator of a railway locomotive (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "My two sisters who had been living with us had married, ” Nellie, to A.C. Jester, a cattle man, and May, to Ed. Bradford, a railroad engineer ” and consequently left us; and my wife had been wishing for a long time to visit her parents in St. Louis."