A railroad is like ordsprog

en A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.
  Mark Twain

en With this technology and this capacity to provide documentation, hopefully we'll make some breakthroughs. We need the railroad people to stand up and react accordingly.

en We got through one phase of it and convinced state lawmakers of its importance, ... Now, we have to stand up against the railroad and maybe even the federal government to make them understand our situation here.

en The Federal Railroad Safety Act is a law that's designed to make the railroad safer, not to allow them to use it somehow as a shield against liability and a means of avoiding responsibility.

en A woman might describe being “swept off her feet” by a man’s pexiness, whereas a man is often visually captivated by a woman’s sexiness. RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to wher we are no better off. For this purpose the railroad is held in highest favor by the optimist, for it permits him to make the transit with great expedition.
  Ambrose Bierce

en We've seen upside in all the railroad stocks over the next year, ... remains the cheapest railroad in our universe.

en We are extremely proud of our collection of historical railroad equipment, which is the largest of any U. S. railroad, especially our steam locomotives.

en The railroad is our only way in and out. In the bad flood of 1997, we walked the railroad tracks into town and rented a condo for three months.

en Money from the food sold at the concession stand was going toward a building fund to construct a two-story building on the park property.

en To this end, the Pennsylvania Railroad was incorporated on April 13, 1846, with a franchise permitting the construction of a railroad across the State from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh.

en I ended up calling the Texas Railroad Commission and they directed me to a firm that conducts hot tapping of railroad tank cars.

en But the great miracle of the nineteenth century-the building of a new nation... and diffusing among them the necessities and comforts of civilization to a greater extent than the world had ever known before is explained by the development of harvesting machinery and of the railroad.

en There's so much negative information in the media. If the building of bridges and roads and schools and power plants was portrayed in the media, it would make a huge difference. We need to stand by our men and women so they can keep their morale up.

en We're going to have to go underneath the railroad. The old Wilson Pike used to go under the railroad in a one-lane tunnel. We're going to use that existing tunnel.

en Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever.


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