Quotes About Trains

I sleep good and I miss a lot of trains; That one way track to no man's love I'll never ride again

The trains in any country contain the essential paraphernalia of the culture: Thai trains have the shower jar with the glazed dragon on its side, Ceylonese ones the car reserved for Buddhist monks Indian ones a vegetarian kitchen and six classes Iranian ones prayer mats, Malaysian ones a noodle stall, Vietnamese ones bulletproof glass on the locomotive, and on every carriage of a Russian train there is a samovar.

Why are trains so popular at Christmas? People get on to meet their country over the holidays.

Trains had a nostalgic magnetism that was undeniable, even for the many Americans who'd never even been on one.

He was new to London in those days, and he had not liked it. He had not cared for the intensity of the traffic, or the underground trains that were full of a human smell and of people who lit up tipped cigarettes and pushed with their elbows.

I see that both the living and the dead commute, riding their familiar trains. I am not, as you will have gathered, a person who needs false excitement, or simulated innovation. I am willing, though, to tear up the timetable and take some new routes; and I know I shall find, at some unlikely terminus, a hand that is meant to rest in mine.

My first paycheck came from HobbyTown USA in Las Vegas. They had like planes and trains and RC cars, things like that.

The peasants watched the trains with curiosity, listening intently to the strange humming sound of the human throng, neither groan, cry, nor song. The train went by, and as it pulled away one could still see against the dark background of the forest disembodied human arms waving tirelessly from the windows.

Agonía. Soledad del hombre en el sueño lleno de ascensores y trenes donde tú vas a velocidades inasibles. Soledad de los edificios, de las esquinas, de las playas, donde tú no aparecerás ya nunca.

Thomas Lull knows he is un-American: he hates cars but loves trains, Indian trains, big trains like a nation on the move. He is content with the contradiction that they are at once hierarchical and democratic, a temporary community brought together for a time; vital while it lasts, burning away like early mist when the terminus is reached.

Now he slept soundly through the nights, and often he dreamed of trains, and often of one particular train: He was on it; he could smell the coal smoke; a world went by. And then he was standing in that world as the sound of the train died away. A frail familiarity in these scenes hinted to him that they came from his childhood. Sometimes he woke to hear the sound of the Spokane International fading up the valley and realized he'd been hearing the locomotive as he dreamed.

We're killing lots of dinosaurs though. The trains are helping." "The TRAINS are—" "Only one derailed so far," Urruah said cheerfully.

Math anxiety: an intense lifelong fear of two trains approaching each other at speeds of 60 and 80 MPH.

Les levers de soleil sont un accompagnement des longs voyages en chemin de fer, comme les œufs durs, les journaux illustrés, les jeux de cartes, les rivières où des barques s'évertuent sans avancer.

If leadership is seeing the potential for a transcontinental railroad and lining up the resources to build it, management is getting the trains to run on time.

Rail attendants dismiss excited train hobbyists as "foamers" (foaming at the mouth as they board their choo-choos).

Platform 21 was where Jews disappeared on trains heading north.

To maximize the effectiveness of any excavator, it had to be serviced efficiently by spoil removal trains. Thus, for Stevens, the railway, the Panama Railroad, was the key to success on the Isthmus, something never fully appreciated by the French.

The end result may be trains that run on time (although I doubt it), but the cost is to our Constitution and the individual liberty it protects.

The great trains howling from track to track all night. The taut and telegraphic murmur of ten thousand city wires, drawn most cruelly against a city sky. The rush of city waters, beneath the city streets. The passionate passing of the night's last El.

Five full trains to load. Thirty-nine cars each. And as he watched his cart, his crates, his own personal points of light loaded into the first car, on the first train, he let himself exhale. And then mute, held up by equal parts grief and wonder, he stood witness through all the hours it took the collection to arrive. Nineteen thousand, five hundred fifty-seven crates. One at a time. All night long.