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HEAD SWITCHER

Specialty Definition: HEAD SWITCHER

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Occupations

Supervises and coordinates activities of switch-engine crew engaged in switching railroad cars within yard of railroad, industrial plant, or similar location to facilitate loading and unloading of cars or making up and breaking up of trains: Notifies YARD ENGINEER (r.r. trans.) of switching orders and, whereby, which cars are to be moved to specified locations of yard, using radio, telephone, verbal, or hand signals. Gives instructions to SWITCH TENDER (r.r. trans.) to throw track switches and to YARD COUPLER (r.r. trans.) to couple and uncouple cars. May keep records, number, origin, destination, and cargo of cars switched. May coordinate activities of switching crew from locomotive cab, caboose, or control tower. May assist workers to couple and uncouple cars, throw track switches, or other activities involved in switching railroad cars, as necessary. May supervise workers engaged in maintenance and repair of diesel locomotives and be designated Locomotive-Engine Supervisor (any industry). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: HEAD SWITCHER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-h-h-i-r-s-t-w"

-2 letters: hatcheries, thearchies, whiteheads.

-3 letters: cashiered, cherished, detachers, dishwater, rhachides, richweeds, swithered, tracheids, watershed, waterside, whitehead.

-4 letters: acridest, aetheric, chariest, cheaters, chedites, cheetahs, chestier, chewiest, deciares, desertic, detacher, detaches, dewaters, diethers, discreet, discrete, dishware, ditchers, etherish, hardiest, hatchers, headiest, headrest, hearties, heathers, heathier, hectares, heretics, herewith, hetaeric, hitchers, rachides, rawhides, readiest, recheats, rehashed, rewashed.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: HEAD SWITCHER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 45 41 44      53 57 49 54 43 48 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01000101 01000001 01000100 00100000 01010011 01010111 01001001 01010100 01000011 01001000 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#69 &#65 &#68 &#32 &#83 &#87 &#73 &#84 &#67 &#72 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0045 0041 0044      0053 0057 0049 0054 0043 0048 0045 0052

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4239353825357435437423952

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