Translation for "switchman" to spanish
Switchman
noun
Translation examples
A switchman on the railroad.
Un guardagujas en el ferrocarril.
In ten years he became owner of the railway Which had entered of switchman.
En diez años llegó a ser propietario de la compañía de ferrocarriles en la que había entrado de guardagujas.
Switchman or flagman or something.
Como guardagujas, señalero o algo así.
I'll be a switchman!
Yo seré ¡guardagujas!
I come home, thank God, to lie down, to rest... and they send in a switchman hit by the train, and -
Regresé a casa para descansar y enviaron un guardagujas.
From the railroad they brought in a switchman.
Me traían al guardagujas de la estación...
'Can't imagine what happened to that switchman.
No sé qué puede haberle pasado a ese guardagujas.
I wanted to ask him what happened to Cleveland, but before I could speak he said, 'I'm looking for my switchman.'
Quise preguntarle cuánto faltaba para Cleveland, pero antes de que pudiera hablar me dijo: —Busco a mi guardagujas.
He's a railroad man, Mike, a switchman, been with the railroad ever since he finished high school, same as his father and grandfather before him.
Es ferroviario. Mike es guardagujas y lleva trabajando en el ferrocarril desde que terminó en el instituto, lo mismo que su padre y su abuelo antes que él.
A boy named Jaspers had been waving his arm like a railroad switchman, but just then Mrs. Ramsey raised her soft southern voice from the back of the room.
Un chico que se llamaba Jaspers había estado agitando el brazo como un guardagujas del ferrocarril, pero justo entonces la señora Ramsey alzó su suave voz de acento sureño desde el fondo de la sala.
The death of his mother—hit by a train as she fled a paranoid switchman— would transform him into a lethal mixture of rage and grief, that is, the exact image of his average reader.
La muerte de la madre -arrollada por un tren mientras huía perseguida por un guardagujas paranoico- lo convertiría en una mezcla letal de rabia y dolor, es decir, en el perfecto retrato del lector medio.
A meal which is going to culminate in a sexual orgy has a way of traveling direct to the parts which need nourishment, as if directed by the little switchman who regulates the traffic throughout the autonomic system.
Una comida que va a culminar en una orgía sexual llega con toda rapidez a las partes que necesitan alimento, como si la dirigiera el pequeño guardagujas que regula el tráfico por todo el sistema autónomo.
The beloved street wheels softly around, like a turn-table operated by an unseen switchman, and as we reach the corner it joins neatly and inexorably with the intersecting streets which form the pattern of our childhood precincts.
La amada calle gira suavemente, como una plataforma giratoria manejada por un guardagujas invisible, y, cuando llegamos a la esquina, se junta clara e inexorablemente con las calles transversales que forman el trazado de nuestro barrio infantil.
he answered numbly Dave Mitchum departed for Fairmount, announcing to every yardman, switchman and wiper in sight, as he boarded the track motor car that he was going in search of a Diesel for the Comet.
Dave Mitchum partió hacia Fairmount, anunciando a cada empleado, a cada guardagujas y a cada obrero que hallaba en su camino hacia el vehículo automóvil dispuesto sobre la vía, que se iba en busca de una «Diesel» para el «Comet».
A friendly switchman told me I'd better not try to get on it as there was a yard bull at the crossing with a big flashlight who would see if anybody was riding away on it and would phone ahead of Watsonville to have them thrown off.
Un guardagujas amigo me dijo que era mejor que no subiera al tren porque en el cruce había un vigilante siniestro con una enorme linterna que miraba si había alguien subido a los vagones y si lo encontraba telefoneaba a Watsonville para que lo echaran.
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