Use "railroad" in a sentence

1. Railroads were built right through the mountains over trails that the original natives had used for centuries

2. As new transportation developed the railroads lost their importance and went back to nature’s domination

3. Thus, when it was suggested to him that the government should take over the railroads, he responded indignantly that those suggesting such action had no idea how inefficient and undependable federal workers were

4. Sherman’s army did destroy railroads

5. ily in railroads and cattle

6. Texas to railroads in Texas, Oklahoma, and

7. In addition to the Hearings on Orders to Show Cause against both the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe Railroads, which were televised on all three local network outlets, a novelty in 1973, I received not so anonymous typed notes on my desk from colleagues, most likely Dick Sallquist, telling me in great detail the defalcations of the Democrat “civil servant” who supervised the Ambulance Division, one Frank Bowman

8. He was counting on big contributions from all the utilities, including railroads and over-the-road trucking companies, which I regulated, to finance his run for governor

9. Hence, my “attacks” upon the two major railroads pissed him off at me greatly such that he asked his rival, my boss, to fire me

10. When the truth about the wreck at Rillitto came out, with the help of a lawyer downtown who regularly sued BOTH railroads for injuries to workers under Railway Safety Act, my goose was cooked

11. Austria, like Prussia, was modernizing with new roads, bridges, canals, and railroads

12. Railroads could use the business

13. Attorney John Ashcroft"s directive (8 October 2001) which urged law enforcement agencies across the nation to go on high alert, and warned utilities (electrical, water and nuclear power plants), railroads, trucking firms and gas and oil companies to expand their capacities to prevent or respond to terrorist attacks (Seper, The Washington Times, p

14. The Twin Ports grew in population and transportation infrastructure: highways, boats and ships, railroads and docks

15. Government Subsidies and Railroads I discussed in the last section the comparison of entrepreneurial with government-subsidized business actions in the development of powered shipping

16. Four railroads received charters and subsidies to build crosscountry lines

17. Hill predicted that the ICC and the Sherman Act would ruin American railroads and threaten cheap trade throughout the nation

18. It is hard not to view him as the real hero in the development of the American transcontinental railroads

19. There were lofty goals for Rwanda: make it a commercial and trade hub of the central and eastern part of Africa; build networks on the Internet, airways, railroads and highways; promote gender equality; improve education; have more private investment; do all this in honest, transparent and impartial ways

20. The South Improvement Company was a joint venture of Standard Oil and three railroads that was created for the purpose of eliminating oil competitors through anti-competitive rates of shipping

21. He voted for the Force Bill, which gave voting rights to African Americans, and the Interstate Commerce Act, for regulation of the railroads

22. Politicians could travel with free passes from the railroads, but Bob paid his own way

23. Building the railroads wasn’t any easier and involved many dangers as well

24. The railroads spread across from East to West,

25. were still located just up the road, and used the railroads that

26. I can already hear the hissing of railroads

27. “I would suggest to you that you follow the railroads

28. Long Island Railroad"s Thirty-fourth Street Penn Station with

29. The earth will roll up like a blanket with all that bad white man's stuff, the fences and railroads and mines and telegraph poles; and underneath will be our old-young Indian earth with all our relatives come to life again

30. That left with the first bailout of the railroads in 1970

31. They started with the railroads and continued with airlines,

32. If we stand in any large city and let the eye rest on the innumerable large and magnificent buildings, the railroads, the electric cars, the telephones, the electric lights, and all the other conveniences of modern civilization, we may remember that not one of them was there 100 years ago, and if we could stand on the same spot in a hundred years from now, in all probability we should find that but few of them remained

33. We called on Carton and lost no time in having the men he could spare placed in watching the railroads and steamship lines to prevent if we could any of the gang from getting out of the city that way

34. Railroads were going to be the steel veins that allowed goods and people to flow freely through the heart of South Africa, and Jamie intended to be a part of them

35. What was the point of building an empire, a dynasty, of having diamonds and gold and railroads if you had no one to pass them on to? What a bloody fool I've been! Jamie thought

36. "This is Christofer Burns, recently of the Connecticut and Passumpic railroads

37. freshfish ( from the coast; in usebefore the days of railroads andartificial ice)

38. n't seen since the RailRoads of the late 1880s

39. This is another obscene lie modern history books spout…the virtue of these new industrial railroads serving as cheap mass transportation for the poor

40. The railroads were built by rich Robber Barons to get rich quicker

41. The first railroads were used for transporting of English peasants from the countryside to factories to work as slaves, and transporting raw resources into the factories to make England’s Industrial Robber Barons richer

42. For most of my life I admired and believed in many of the myths of the American West… the myths of the great early European explorers, the myth of the great pioneer, the mountain man, the myth of the great Indian fighter, the myth of the noble savage, the myth of the American cowboy, the myth of the great gunfighter, the myth of the building the great railroads, the myths of the great empire builders of the American and Canadian West, the myths of the opening of the American West, the myths of the great cattle drives, the myths of the great American settlers, the myths of the great American rancher, the myths of the first wagon trains, the first settlers to cross the plains and the Rockies to end up in Oregon or California or god knows where… the myths of the great American Outlaws…

43. The point is… the myths, the archetype heroes: the trapper, the explorer, the rancher, the cowboy, the lumberjack the railroads are all just forms of improved mass slaughter and industrialized mass butchery and mechanized mass destruction of the earth, and the only rationalized justification for all this destruction is the continued increase of overpopulation of the earth by this one species of ape… heroes are all archetypes of evil: each new one more evil than the last one

44. The railroads had already been built, so all they cost of maintenance was minimal and 100’s ot times cheaper to repair than roads and highways made from concrete and asphalt

45. The already existing railroads could have been used and been much more effective

46. What were all the railroads and factories etc, etc used FOR?

47. Giant swaths of sylvite were dotted along centuries old trading routes, but when the railroads opened up America they started carrying vast quantities of cheap salt produced in giant pans on the two coasts from salt water

48. I see the tracks of the railroads of the earth,

49. In the cars of railroads, in steamboats, in the public assembly,

50. Shapes of the two-threaded tracks of railroads,

51. the railroads, with many a thrifty farm, with machinery,

52. The men and the work of the men on ferries, railroads, coasters,

53. Is it indignation at the loss of so many lives which is at work here? Well, the American railroads kill very many people during one single year, I dare say

54. Then why don't these dignitaries come down on the presidents of their own railroads, of which one can't say whether they are mere means of transportation or a sort of gambling game for the use of American plutocrats

55. Interstate roadways, railroads, air travel, and electronic communications are all regulated by the federal government

56. Whatever Stylmyn and Praigyr—or Sharleyan, for that matter—wanted, railroads were simply going to have to take second or even third priority for the immediate future

57. It was railroads more than anything else that really drove the development of Old Earth’s steel industry

58. And to be honest, railroads are going to go even farther towards breaking the Proscriptions’ grip than artillery is

59. And whatever reservations he might have about it, those coking ovens and blast furnaces produced byproducts—from the coal gas lighting his manufactory floors and buildings and the Tellesberg waterfront to the creosote which would preserve the wooden sleepers Stylmyn’s railroads would eventually require—that were of almost incalculable value

60. Now the only problem would be fending off Stylmyn’s desire to build still more railroads

61. taken by the inspector of railroads, another by a lawyer from Moscow, a third by Princess Astafieva from the country

62. Born of a railroad, Atlanta grew as its railroads grew

63. so fast? After all, they thought, it had nothing whatever to recommend it—only its railroads and a bunch of mighty pushy people

64. around the junction of the railroads in its center

65. Over the railroads that led down from Virginia to Atlanta and then Atlanta and its railroads had played a big part in making Chickamauga a great victory northward to Tennessee, General Longstreet’s corps had been rushed to the scene of the battle

66. It was the greatest feat of the war, and Atlanta took pride and personal satisfaction in the thought that its railroads had made the victory possible

67. The railroads needed new cars to The generals in the field were crying out for fresh troops, and there were fewer and fewer fresh troops to be had

68. Atlanta, the heart of the Confederacy, was still beating full and strong, the railroads that were its arteries throbbing with the never-ending flow of men, munitions and supplies

69. And, in Atlanta, were not only the factories for mills in the South, the shops of the principal railroads and the enormous hospitals

70. And in Atlanta was the junction of the four railroads on which the very life of the Confederacy depended

71. The folks are starving and the railroads are torn up and there aren’t any new rifles and the ammunition is giving out and there’s no leather at all for shoes… So, you see, the end is almost here

72. The railroads for which Sherman had fought an entire summer and killed thousands of men were again stimulating the life of the city they had brought into being

73. Unable to support the convicts, the State was hiring them out to those needing large labor crews in the building of railroads, in turpentine forests and lumber camps

74. cities but nevertheless were often successful bidders on state contracts; the Carahans who had gotten their start in a gambling house and now were gambling for bigger stakes in the building of nonexistent railroads with the state’s money; the Flahertys who had bought salt at one cent a pound in 1861 and made a fortune when salt went to fifty cents during the war and now were moving in the best circles of Carpetbagger society

75. They had no difficulty at all in obtaining the state’s seekers after contracts and others hoping to profit from the orgy of spending, and many money for building railroads that were never built, for buying cars and engines that were never bought, for erecting public buildings that never existed except in the minds of their promoters

76. His steel was used in everything from bridges to railroads

77. The most impressive illustration is afforded by the persistent decline in the relative investment position of the railroads as a class during the past two decades

78. , in the reports of the railroads to the Interstate Commerce Commission—into making elaborate studies of nonessentials

79. [In reviewing bond collapses among railroads between 1931 and 1933,] the fault appears to be that the stability of the transportation industry was overrated, so that investors were satisfied with a margin of protection which proved insufficient

80. The threefold classification of enterprises—as railroads, public utilities, or industrials—was intended to reflect inherent differences in relative stability and consequently in the coverage to be required above bond interest requirements

81. ) The steady progress of the utility group, even in the face of the minor industrial setbacks of 1924 and 1927, led to an impressive advance in its standing among investors, so that by 1929 it enjoyed a credit rating fully on a par with the railroads

82. 1 Railway operating revenues for all Class I railroads in the United States (I

83. Turning to the railroads, we find a somewhat different situation

84. The railroads, for example, have financed the bulk of their needs through bond sales, resulting in an overbalancing of funded debt as against stock capital

85. The bonds of reasonably capitalized electric and gas companies have given a satisfactory account of themselves during this decade and the same is true—to a lesser degree—of the relatively few railroads which showed a large margin above interest charges prior to 1930

86. Railroads must either own 500 miles of standard-gauge line or else have operating revenues of not less than $10,000,000 per annum

87. The alternative tests for railroads, based on either mileage or revenues, are confusing and unnecessary

88. The experience of the past decade indicates that dominant or at least substantial size affords an element of protection against the hazards of instability to which industrial enterprises are more subject than are railroads or public utilities

89. It is our view that the book value of public-utility properties—and of railroads and the typical industrial plant as well—is no guidance in determining the safety of the bond issues secured thereon

90. Since 1930 certain railroads in receivership (e

91. In 1939 additional legislation of a temporary nature was adopted, designed to facilitate so-called “voluntary reorganizations” of railroads by making them binding on all security holders

92. The reason: much of the stock market’s capitalization in that era was based on raw materials (mainly mining companies), transportation (railroads), utilities, and manufacturing

93. , the group of dividend-paying Northwestern railroads

94. , the railroads, failed signally to participate in the expansion of national wealth and income and showed repeated signs of definite retrogression

95. Examples: On the one hand it is not customary, nor does it seem worth while, to make such calculations with respect to the holdings of Union Pacific in Illinois Central and other railroads