They climbed onto wrong freight cars, their food giving out, always alert for railroad detectives their countrymen had warned them against.

Might talk to the railroad detectives, too.

"That ain't the whole story," remarked the railroad detective.

A railroad detective recognized Jackley and the chase was on.

I got in a fight with a railroad detective.

At Ronkonkoma, they received a call from a railroad detective who was at their home in Riverhead.

When a white deputy sheriff and a railroad detective, arrived at the church, a fight broke out between them and the guards.

In the ensuing gunfire, the railroad detective was killed and the deputy sheriff was wounded.

Leaders of the strikes of 1877 were blacklisted, tracked by railroad detectives, and hounded from their jobs for years.

His father was a railroad detective who probably beat blacks.