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I bought a railroad during this period of time.
For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.
I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.
I could go back to the railroad. I liked that job.
I had a great job with the railroad, a good salary.
I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.
It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.
If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?
A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.
My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.
The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress.
The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship.
The Underground Railroad was a spy network for the North and that story has never been told.
Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
I come from a line of railroad men. My great-grandfather was a surveyor for the Burlington Railroad.
I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late.
I literally lived on the other side of the railroad tracks, but I learned that division doesn't work.
Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were.
While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points.
With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history.
My friend Anderson Cooper is the scion of one of America's great shipping and railroad families, the Vanderbilts.
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.
It's hard to make something as large as a government change. It's a little bit like building the transcontinental railroad.
My dad was a telegraph operator for the Cotton Belt Railroad. He worked seven nights a week from 4 until midnight, no vacation.
The story of the Underground Railroad is the story of American heroes, and who doesn't want to hear a story about American heroes?
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
For me, I've always been fascinated by tales of the Chinese railroad and the workers and the conditions of the workers who built the railroad.
When more Chinese started coming after the Gold Rush, employed on large projects like the Pacific Railroad, anti-Chinese sentiment became shrill.
The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad.
The Oberlin/Cleveland area is where the underground railroad came out, so it's an interesting historical place. I love Ohio and really loved Oberlin.
If you look at what happened with Underground Railroad, there is so much action. There is so much intrigue; there is so much of historical importance.
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.
Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.
Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business.
Wherever I go, I'm watching. Even on vacation, when I'm in an airport or a railroad station, I look around, snap pictures, and find out how people do things.
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.
One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in street cars and railroad trains.
I try to jog in every city I visit, and I particularly enjoy harbour-front paths that let me ogle big ships, railroad bridges and the ruins of factories and warehouses.
I grew up taking the Long Island Railroad from Baldwin, New York into Penn Station and walking upstairs to Madison Square Garden. Those are some of my favorite memories.
I was like, 'Oh, let's do a show about the Underground Railroad.' I never come up with great titles, and I thought, 'Underground' is a fantastic title. I got really excited.
I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.
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 was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.
The criminal justice system in the United States is designed to do two things really well: to railroad black and brown bodies into prison, and to keep police officers out of it.
Black people lived right by the railroad tracks, and the train would shake their houses at night. I would hear it as a boy, and I thought: I'm gonna make a song that sounds like that.
The story of the Underground Railroad is a thriller. These are people who are basically in a heist movie, and it's the most precious cargo ever, your life. You're fighting for your freedom.
In America, when you hear about the Underground Railroad, it's so evocative. You think it's a literal subway for a few minutes before your teacher goes on and describes where it actually was.
When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period.
I'm a secret interior decorator. There's a mural on my dining room wall of the railroad tracks at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. I love having my hometown with me out here in California.