Railroads Quotes

I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.

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

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

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.

For an economy built to last we must invest in what will fuel us for generations to come. This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure.

The best practice is to follow the advice posted on every railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen.

I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.

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.

I don't care a damn for their guns, or you either, sir! What I want is the Southside Railroad!

Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.

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

Harriet Tubman fought American slavery single handed and was a pioneer in that organized effort known as the Underground Railroad.

When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker.

When I was a little kid, I used to walk miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles of railroad tracks.

These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.

The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!

On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this went on for about thirty minutes.

I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late.

We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness.

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

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.

I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.

It was the custom when men received nominations to come to me for contributions, and I made them and considered them good paying investments for the company. In a Republican district I was a strong Republican; in a Democratic district I was Democratic, and in doubtful districts I was doubtful. In politics I was an Erie Railroad man all the time.

We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.

Once I built a railroad; now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?