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.
There are two things I don't care how smart you are, you will never understand. One is an alienist's testimony, and the other is a railroad timetable.
The whole blear world of smoke and twisted steel around my head in a railroad car, and my mind wandering past the rust into futurity: I saw the sun go down in a carnal and primeval world, leaving darkness to cover my railroad train because the other side of the world was waiting for dawn.
Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.
In an imperfect world perfection is not instantly available. Railroad safety, for instance, cannot be secured by mechanical devices alone. It is primarily a resultant of care and discipline.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.
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.
Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track.
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.
RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where 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.
Why should the railroad employees be parceled out among a score of different organizations? They are all employed in the same service. Their interests are mutual. They ought to be able to act together as one. But they divide according to craft and calling, and if you were to propose today to unite them that they might actually do something to advance their collective and individual interests as workers, you would be opposed by every grand officer of these organizations.
Lay my head on the railroad line. Train come along; pacify my mind.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.
I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak and love. And Mother. And God.
Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.
God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad train!
Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
Instead of the scream of a fish hawk scaring the fishes, is heard the whistle of the steam-engine, arousing a country to its progress.
You cannot tie your fiance to the railroad track of self-reflection and personal improvement.
The Transcontinental Railroad Act is the first step in creating a continental common market.
Electricity is doing for the distribution of energy what the railroads have done for the distribution of materials.
I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late.
Give me snuff, whiskey, and Swedes, and I will build a railroad to hell.
A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.
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