Railroads

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. A New York river (6)
  2. 5. A railroad employee responsible for a train's ___ (8)
  3. 7. A vehicle used to push snow from roads (8)
  4. 10. Contact by fitting together (12)
  5. 12. A sports implement with a long handle and a head like a hammer (6)
  6. 13. Luxurious passenger car (7)
  7. 14. Crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment (7)
  8. 15. A car on a freight train for use of the train crew (7)

Down

  1. 1. A passageway through or under something, usually underground (6)
  2. 2. Funnel-shaped receptacle (6)
  3. 3. A large reservoir for ___ (10)
  4. 4. A low flat-bottomed freight car with fixed sides but no roof (7)
  5. 6. To send a signal by waving a flag or a light according to a certain code (6)
  6. 8. The sound made by something moving rapidly or by steam coming out of a small aperture (7)
  7. 9. A hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck (4)
  8. 11. Harvester that heads and threshes and cleans grain while moving across the field (7)