Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business.
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.
With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history.
It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.
The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress.
It's hard to make something as large as a government change. It's a little bit like building the transcontinental railroad.
Jack Walsh: We are getting off here, Mr. Railroad Man!
Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were.
A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it.
I don't think of myself as a movie star. I'm a movie worker. I come from a railroad family. I come from the corn.
While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points.
Railroads are the primary economic beneficiaries. It's a difficult project for the public sector.
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.
They still don't want to admit to the world that this isn't the best and the fairest and most equal justice system. And that they are guilty of railroading people into jail. They don't want to, or never will, admit these things.
The communications industry has been tremendously successful, but we need to build the railroads and the oil wells and the gold mines of space.
Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.
My favorite bands were Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull, Uriah Heep, Grand Funk Railroad. If you listen to some of my early music, you can hear it.
If a railroad is bent, the train shall turn over; if a man’s character is bent, he shall turn over just like that train.
I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!
I came from a poor family. My father was from Glasgow, Scotland; my mother's brothers were brakemen on the railroad. We didn't have anything but mush for breakfast.
