#rail

I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler's oil refineries, his tank factories, his aircraft factories, his railway yards. Those were our prime targets. ↗

— George McGovern

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I think for most of us, our biggest frailties are sexual. ↗

— George Michael

#frailties #i #i think #most #our

The Engineer Corps is charged with all construction, including light railways and roads. ↗

— Kelly Miller

#construction #corps #engineer #including #light

Early on in my career, I'd go into the makeup trailer, and they'd spend an hour doing my makeup, and I would hate it. I'd go into the bathroom, wash it off and start over again, which took an enormous amount of time. So I just started doing it myself. ↗

— Donna Mills

#amount #bathroom #career #doing #early

Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history. ↗

— John Moody

#great #great men #greatest #history #leaders

The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship. ↗

— John Moody

#originally #railroad #ship #steam

In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car. ↗

— John Moody

#appearance #boat #canal #car #made

Many of the railroad evils were inherent in the situation; they were explained by the fact that both managers and public were dealing with a new agency whose laws they did not completely understand. ↗

— John Moody

#both #completely #dealing #did #evils

The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads. ↗

— John Moody

#brought #close #close relationship #connection #construction

The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California. ↗

— John Moody

#consolidation #construction #dates #days #discovery