#railroad

This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure. ↗

— Cory Booker

#ancestors #bridges #building #dam #growth

It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad. ↗

— David R. Brower

#like #long #long island #over #program

Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease. ↗

— Karel Capek

#destroy #else #everything #exterminate #factories

Now, people have said that somebody told them that they saw somebody on the railroad bank or saw somebody going over the bank, but no one has ever been able to show any cartridges, any rifle, any pistol, no one has ever found anything other than the evidence about Oswald. ↗

— John Sherman Cooper

#about #any #anything #bank #been

I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come back, but I realize the diesels are more efficient. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#come #efficient #engines #i #like

One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#bankrupt #both #government #office #only

The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay. ↗

— George Stephenson

#laid #many #parts #pay #rage

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

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