Diamondback
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In railroading, it was said that being yardmaster in Pocatello was the railroad equivalent of Hell. Given that it was the toughest job in rail, the term "Pocatello Yardmaster" was regularly used as a derisive reference to "Boomers"--guys who tended to move around between railroad employers, since a great many of them claimed to have held that job. (I suspect it was a way to tell new colleagues something like "whatever you got, I seen worse, so don't mess around with me here.")