#railroad

I have always loved to sit in ferry and railroad stations and watch the people, to walk on crowded streets, just walk along among the people, and see their faces, to be among people on street cars and trains and boats. ↗

— Ella R. Bloor

#always #among #boats #cars #crowded

Railroads are the primary economic beneficiaries. It's a difficult project for the public sector. ↗

— John Gates

#difficult #economic #primary #project #public

Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station. ↗

— Ada Louise Huxtable

#more #nothing #obsolete #railroad #station

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. ↗

— Harriet Tubman

#conductors #eight #i #i can #lost

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. ↗

— Joshua A. Norton

#diameter #directors #hereby #inches #least

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. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#education #freight #gone #man #may

For 50 years my father worked for the railroad. ↗

— Harold Evans

#railroad #worked #years

I'll give you an example. Henry, the old black guy who cooks the corn bread, he worked on the railroads for about 20 years so he knows how to lay and build track. ↗

— Marc Singer

#black #bread #build #cooks #corn

If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space? ↗

— Valentina Tereshkova

#railroad #russia #space #why #women

My friend Anderson Cooper is the scion of one of America's great shipping and railroad families, the Vanderbilts. ↗

— Kathy Griffin

#anderson #cooper #families #friend #great