Here is a riddle I need help fig it out with and explanation thanx!?

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there is the brakeman, fireman, and enineer their names are Smith, Jones, and robinson. these are the train employees. there are also three passengers on the train with the same names but they are MR. smith, Mr. jones and Mr. robinson

Mr robinson lives in detroit

brakeman lives half way between chicago and detrot

mr. jones earns exacty $40, 000/year

smith beats the fireman at billards

brakeman next door neighbors, one of the pasengers earns exactly 3 times as much as the breakman

the passenger that lives in chicago has the same name as the brakeman

what is the name of the engineer?

hint Mr. Robinson lives in Detroit, while the breakman lives in neither detroit or chicago

mr jones makes $40,000 which can not be 3 times anyones salary
 
i looked at this for about half an hour & i figured out the breakman is smith.
reasoning:
the brakeman can not be mr. jones becuase it says nobody can triple mr. jones salary of $40,000, and it also says the brakeman's neighbor makes triple the salary of the breakman. then, the brakeman can not be mr. ronbinson becuase he lives in detroit, and the passenger that lives in CHICAGO has the same name as the breakman...not the one that lives in detroit.
i can't figure out the rest though. there's nothing else to go on. it says smith beats the fireman at billiards....it would make more sense if it said ronbinson beats the fireman or jones beats the fireman...i don't have enough information to figure out the rest. anyways...
 
the engineer is smith

the brakeman cannot be robinson because he does not live in chicago and therefore wont have his name
this leaves jones and smith the brake mans neighbor earns a salary which is a multiple of 3 so his neighbor is not jones
this means his neighbor is smith and because the brakeman has the same name as the passenger from chicago where neither rob(detroit) or smith(neighbor so between detroit an chicago) the brakeman's name is jones.
the fireman cannot be smith because he can't beat himself at billiards and cant be jones because the brakeman is jones so he must be robinson
this only leaves smith for the engineer to be.
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