"Railroading" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... miles to the eastward the roofs of Boston and the golden dome of the Capitol glittered in the morning sun, and there were the bright rails stretching clean and straight up to the very gates of the city. Railroading was a silly business anyway, thought Smith. An express train should be consistent, and not suddenly decide to become a landmark instead of a mobile and dynamic agent. He almost wished he had taken his ticket by the Fall River ...
— White Ashes • Sidney R. Kennedy and Alden C. Noble
... just why I say you are a genuine railroader—the burning of the station was a piece of the finest kind of railroading! ...
— The Young Railroaders - Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity • Francis Lovell Coombs
... company was menaced with dollar-gas, the city pay-roll was held up for two months by the lighting company's cohorts. Only Heaven knows how much longer it might have been held back, had not an assemblyman come to the mayor's help by rushing up to the capital and railroading through a law that required ...
— Half a Rogue • Harold MacGrath
... the heart of Eeta Peeca Pie, Meeney Miney, and Miney Mo was an ambition to go railroading, to ride on railroad cars night and day, year after year. The whistles and the wheels of railroad trains were ...
— Rootabaga Stories • Carl Sandburg
... said Griscom. "None better. In to report, Sam? Good-bye. Shovel in the coal, lad," the speaker directed Ralph. "It's a bad night for railroading, and we'll have ...
— Ralph on the Engine - The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail • Allen Chapman
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