#railroad

On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this went on for about thirty minutes. ↗

— James Stockdale

#air #another #bombs #december #eighteenth

I have always loved to sit in ferry and railroad stations and watch the people, to walk on crowded streets, just walk along among the people, and see their faces, to be among people on street cars and trains and boats. ↗

— Ella R. Bloor

#always #among #boats #cars #crowded

For 50 years my father worked for the railroad. ↗

— Harold Evans

#railroad #worked #years

Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico. ↗

— Anthony Quinn

#chihuahua #coast #down #finished #into

Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles. ↗

— Paul Samuelson

#become #before #canals #internet #later

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

— O. Winston Link

#big #could #did #i #man

Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business. ↗

— John Moody

#business #consequently #difficulties #fair #falling

Every great day has a story and a song! ↗

— Faith Reese Martin

#courage #fantasy #friendship #historical-fiction #lost-colony

Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station. ↗

— Ada Louise Huxtable

#more #nothing #obsolete #railroad #station

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. ↗

— Joshua A. Norton

#diameter #directors #hereby #inches #least