#railroad

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

— John Gates

#difficult #economic #primary #project #public

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

You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#architecture #capital #car #developed #extended

I didn't grow up with Broadway music. My mother played Perry Como, while I listened to Andy Williams records. Later on it was Cream, Grand Funk Railroad and lots of R&B like the Isley Bros. and Parliament. ↗

— Donny Osmond

#andy #broadway #bros #cream #funk

I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come back, but I realize the diesels are more efficient. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#come #efficient #engines #i #like

One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#bankrupt #both #government #office #only

The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay. ↗

— George Stephenson

#laid #many #parts #pay #rage

Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico. ↗

— Anthony Quinn

#chihuahua #coast #down #finished #into

A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately. ↗

— Eleanor Robson Belmont

#acquired taste #car #immediately #private #railroad