Quotes About Railroad

I was like, 'Oh, let's do a show about the Underground Railroad.' I never come up with great titles, and I thought, 'Underground' is a fantastic title. I got really excited.

The Underground Railroad was a spy network for the North and that story has never been told.

Give me a moment I am preparing to drawback to screamLouder than a train overhead below a railroad bridge

The most villainous move any person can make is tying a woman to the railroad tracks.

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The black city and the white city: overlapping, ignorant of each other, separate and connected by tracks.

A few people insisted that the Cape-to-Cairo Railroad was in Europe. For college students, they have surprising trouble with geography.

The farm is one field to the east of the railroad track that used to connect New Orleans with Chicago. The track runs beside Highway 45, an old U.S. route that unites Chicago with Mobile, Alabama.

It's as if the railroad were looming on the horizon, and the most visionary thing the futurists of the day can think of to say about it is that these iron horses will have a disastrous effect on the hardworking manufacturers of oat-bags for horses.

A rival editor in Philadelphia said that the spreading railroad network carried "New York everywhere" in terms of the city's predominant influence.

earthen berm that ran next to the nearest set of tracks.

That's why scripting is important—you've got to think about the specific behavior that you'd want to see in a tough moment, whether the tough moment takes place in a Brazilian railroad system or late at night in your own snack-loaded pantry.

Thanks to energetic lobbying by the vested interests of southern congressmen, legislation for the building of a transcontinental railroad was repeatedly blocked in Congress during the 1850s.

A little muzhik was working on the railroad, mumbling in his beard. And the candle by which she had read the book that was filled with fears, with deceptions, with anguish, and with evil, flared up with greater brightness than she had ever known, revealing to her all that before was in darkness, then flickered, grew faint, and went out forever.

One worker housed in Camp No. 10 on Key Vaca was overheard to say, "Building this railroad has become a regular marathon." The remark struck a chord in his fellow workers, who dubbed their camp "Marathon," the name by which the nearby town, the second-largest in the Keys, is known today.

Now, therefore, the Directors of the company are hereby ordered to see that precautions are taken to make travel on said railroad perfectly safe by using a screw with at least twenty-four inches diameter.

I'm always thinking, 'my career is over, I have to move back to Omaha, and work on the railroad, with the rest of my family. So no, I'm never thinking I've 'arrived.' I think that's a good way to be.

The railroad, for instance, was "an unnatural impetus to society," one journalist concluded, that would "destroy all the relations that exist between man and man, overthrow all mercantile regulation, and create, at the peril of life, all sorts of confusion and distress.

In the North, however, the wartime absence from Congress of southern representatives had the benefit of eliminating the opposition that had prevented federal aid to expand the railroad westward.

On July 1, 1862, Lincoln signed the Pacific Railway Act, authorizing a government program to enable the Union Pacific Railroad to build west from the Missouri River and the Central Pacific Railroad to build east from Sacramento to create the first transcontinental railroad.

very difficult to cross, and there are still problems with the Indians from time to time. There are the renegade bands to contend with." Adrian nodded and fixed her with an intense gaze. "There are troubles, to be sure, but the railroad is going to change your world, Miss Gallatin.

I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

I hate your city. It has standardized all the beauty out of life. It is one big railroad station -- with all the people taking tickets for the best cemeteries.