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Railroad ties and street paving blocks are ordinarily protected by oil rather than paint.
The Mexican was now afoot and coursing the railroad yard like a baffled hound.
I was now led a little way down the railroad, to see the Confederates.
Long trains of cars have been derailed and carried great distances from the railroads.
Where such discrimination obtains, every shipper is in the power of the railroad corporation.
Schultz tells me that my investments in the Chinese railroads are going badly, too.
The day of the steamboat had passed, because that of the railroad had come.
Was James Rowan the aggressor when he was railroaded out of town and beaten?
Railroad ticket, sleepers, meals and extra fare on the Limited cost twenty-five each way.
All loyal inhabitants were required actively to assist in repairing railroads, telegraph lines, etc.
Railroad officials had said to him that the strikers were not making the trouble.
He was opposed to the government ownership of railroads and also thought arbitration impracticable.
He spoke of the reports of the movements of the railroad's engineers and surveyors.
You see, I once or twice gave the carpenters a hand at stiffening the railroad trestles.
And men, over enterprises so extremely new and so untried as railroads, most diffident.
Every bushel of wheat, corn, or other grain, shipped over a railroad, pays part.
Three years ago I attempted the fabrication of alternative railroad centralization and decentralization schemes.
The Junction was the terminus of one railroad and the junction of two others.
Those railroad men had never tried to clear a track of roosting turkeys before.
The railroad agent stamps across such a bill of lading, "Shipper's load and count."
It was time for the railroad, and the railroad must now perforce come swiftly.
The railroad is straighter than the turnpike, as that is straighter than the trail.
The general subject of railroad combination was necessarily relegated to another set of covers.
It was far off the line of the railroad, and not near the trolley.
My proviso affords precisely the same remedy that it afforded on the Railroad Bills.
The writer has seen beautiful specimens picked up from the ballasting of the railroad.
The railroad ram was to take position on railroad wharf to fire at the Harriet Lane.
The river above us to the burnt railroad-bridge is crowded with steamboats and schooners.
The schoolmaster has come in with the railroad and improvement is the prevailing order.
Locomotives and shops use almost a fourth of all the coal the railroads haul.
America took the lead in railroad construction, though the locomotive is claimed as an English contrivance.
"How can a man meet with adventures in these days of railroads and steamboats?"
It is no less essential that the great trunk railroads should be effectually co-ordinated.
The railroads radiating north, east, south and west, give it an enormous tributary territory.
She took several sunny rooms near the railroad station, almost opposite "The witty Autocrat."
When it did move it was checked by the French managers of the railroad.
Treat railroad men with the same consideration that you evince towards other business companions.
Every country has its own peculiarity in railroads as well as in everything else.
Because of these qualities railroads soon surpassed in importance every other agency of internal transportation.
Some men, too, who are heartily jeered by the crowd at the railroad station. St.
The railroad tracks were on an embankment, and in the street below trees were growing.
To the one who remains several days in a place, railroad traveling is less objectionable.
I became acquainted with some persons who assisted slaves to escape by the underground railroad.
Bobby bade the squire and Annie adieu again, resumed his journey towards the railroad station.
"Transacting a real estate or railroad deal with your father, I believe, or something of that sort."
He emerged under a railroad trestle and moved into the stream of traffic once more.
An era of railroad speculation was then inaugurated, which ended with the crisis of 1873.
I took it for one of those cabins used by the watchmen along the railroad.
I can see them now, in the curtained room, huddling over an old railroad timetable.
I pack in three-bushel barrels and send to market as soon as ready by railroad.
I just went like one man for our cook wagon down by the railroad corrals.
Despairingly, she saw that she would miss the railroad station by many yards.
Look at your map and see that military value of this first great transcontinental railroad.
A wooden bridge or trestle had been built across the marsh for a railroad track.
Cienfuegos is its seaport and is connected with it by a railroad twenty-five miles long.
Its poor holding power on spikes limits its employment as railroad ties and in shipbuilding.
The poet is a dreamer; but so is the architect, and the projector of railroads.
Hereafter people who come to Fourth and Townsend streets must have railroad business to transact.
Railroad trains have also been brought to a standstill by the herds crossing the tracks.
It is crushed and used for railroad ballast, road building material, and as concrete aggregate.
Train buffs are similarly interested because that was a time of great interest in railroading.
To Gopher Prairie the tracks were eternal verities, and boards of railroad directors an omnipotence.
What I lost in railroad mileage, I gained in foot travel, beautiful mountain scenery, and good atmosphere.
Thanks to the methods of American railroading, democracy is at its zenith on the cars.
The railroad bridge is out of order and will not open square with the bulkhead.
First, there is the almost entire freedom in matters of capitalization which railroads have enjoyed.
The poet is a dreamer; but so is the architect and the projector of railroads.
They were roving guards of the railroad and of the truck road over the mountains.
The railroad, winding around the curves, was literally hewn from the solid rock.
Near the railroad tracks we came upon a group that was both laughable and pathetic.
Seventeen pairs of eyes made out Sammy Addington scurrying like a colt toward the railroad.
Here in 1850 some shanties and stores were built by the pioneers of the railroad.
It would give them control of our network of railroads and thus paralyze our efforts.
The railroad became clogged with freight, a tidal wave of men broke over the town.
People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks.
People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks.
In connection with the railroad and steamboat, it has already achieved one important national result.
If railroads had been selling at forty dollars a pair I couldn't have bought a headlight!
The government is appealing to the courts to protect the shippers against the railroads.
The halls of legislation were thronged with railroad lobbyists, who button-holed nearly every member.
"Shipping" cattle means loading them into railroad cars and despatching them to their destination.
Gregory's box, which Middleton brought from the railroad, contained a jar of delicious pickle.
Tell her about the railroad accidents and 'washouts' and the latest thing in lynching.
In the meantime Jack sauntered up to the keeper of the stand at the railroad station.
It owned a line of iron steamships that carried the ore to the Pittsburgh railroad connections.
The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship.
A great sunken city, a million stifling, starved existences, hurried through, railroaded through life.
They are used on railroads and steamboats, where accurate time is required, and give good satisfaction.
Here three transcontinental railroads pass, two down the River and one to Puget Sound.
Never before had it shown so pathetically its lack of real vision in the railroad question.
I always have considered it one of the great neglected opportunities of the average American railroad.
Waiting for a belated train, alone, in a country railroad station, is not half so wearisome.
He brought a small printing-press, a toy telegraph line and a miniature locomotive and railroad track.
Gee whiz, the water was the only thing about that railroad that was running.
Railroad, steamboat, ferry and omnibus companies are common examples of public carriers of passengers.
"Clever fellers, them railroad men," said the chief engineer; "but what's your machine for?"
Rail freight service to many communities has declined as railroads abandon unproductive branch lines.
It is the terminus of the Government railroad to Fairbanks and a port of some importance.
Previous to this issue, these mules were assembled in a large corral near the railroad station.
This company built a railroad through the property and platted the town of Sunset.