Quotes About Railroad

the party endorsed the "speedy construction" of the transcontinental railroad and a "liberal and just" policy of immigration given that "foreign immigration…has added so much to the wealth, development of resources and increase of power to the nation.

An eyelid is twitching. From the open mouth gushes silence. The cities of Europe mount each other at railroad stations. A pleasant odor of soap tells the jungle dweller of the approaching foe. Wherever you set your sole or toe, the world map develops blank spots, grows balder.

And then they were at the end of the line, the silver tracks, abandoned for eighteen years, ran on into rolling country. In 1910 people took the trolley out to Chessman's Park with vast picnic hampers. The track, never ripped up, still lay rusting among the hills.

Some town cynics dismissed it as a move designed to get him clemency in his sentencing. Still, Bob had his supporters, mostly the town businessmen, who seemed to honor each other. Because of their mutual admiration they felt they could do no wrong, and neither could their offspring. In this group, the feeling was strong that Bob Hansen was in jail because of Chief Wiseman's railroad. Things

That hatred of the railroad was Winder's only original notion, and when he got mad that always came in some way. Everything else was what he'd heard somebody, or most everybody, say, only he always got angry enough to make it sound like a conviction.

If there had been no gold discovery, Oregon would probably have been ready for admission as a state before California was. The first transcontinental railroad might have been built to Oregon. But if California's first transcontinental railroad had been built later, it might have been in the hands of a somewhat less rapacious group of men, and it might have obtained less of a stranglehold on the state's economy and politics.

Elkhorn, and Missouri Valley Railroad reaching the fort and then

During that year by the railroad embankment, at the time of my father's complete disaster, distance meant for us not only some faraway lyrical splendor but also the exceedingly utilitarian idea of running away, the deliverance from fear and hunger.

Much fuss has been made over the idea of the frontier, as though it were a line advancing east to west, but the West was settled piece meal, and Indians fled in many directions to escape the tightening noose of the railroad lines and towns.

I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.

My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.

The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer.

I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late.

Arthur P. Russell, who was vice president of the New Haven Railroad, and Charles Hiller Innes, commonly accredited as the Republican boss of Boston, and of course called "Charlie," were fairly close to the Northampton senator, and, according to the tradition of the day,{98} in a pinch Innes could deliver Coolidge's vote. Innes testified in 1919 that he received forty thousand dollars in three years from the New Haven Railroad.

My old friends in the House{91} were gone. The Western Massachusetts Club, that had its headquarters in the Adams House where most of us lived that came from beyond the Connecticut, was inactive. The committees I had, except the chairmanship of agriculture, did not interest me greatly, and to crown my discontent the Democratic governor sent in a veto which the senate sustained, to a bill authorizing the New Haven Railroad to construct a trolley system in western Massachusetts.

The railroad network of the German Empire made the Kaiser's realm the most advanced military power in the world, and Britain's precarious naval supremacy began to seem less relevant than it had been.

Chinese contract laborers built the North American railroad system, and Indian "coolies" built the South African mines.

A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.

Wall Street billionaires are predicting that Roosevelt-style railroad rate regulation will sooner or later bring about financial catastrophe. [ca. 1906]

When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period.

The railroad, when it came, would meet high expectations. It came quickly enough, but before the necessary technologies converged into a successful system, variety flourished. Passengers were first carried on 25 March 1807 on the Oystermouth Tramroad on the Gower Peninsula in Swansea, northwest of Cardiff in Wales. The cars were horse-drawn, and the operator paid tolls to the company that owned the road.

where he talked with railroad staff about their methods of scheduling arrivals and departures until Edison finally was ready to return to San Francisco on the 5:42 p.m. train.

I approach my holy, haunted railroad stations, underground networks, airports, trying to leave. I don't know what I'm leaving or where I'm going. I don't seem to mind, I'm in the state of traveling. Suspended. That's always been my state.

For me, I've always been fascinated by tales of the Chinese railroad and the workers and the conditions of the workers who built the railroad.