- RailRoad noteable quotes -
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"Somewhere in the course of manufacture, a hammer blow
or a deft mechanic's hand imparts to a locomotive a soul of it's own" - Emile Zola
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"Big-Holing the Westinghouse"
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"melodies cast and wrought in metal" - Matthias N. Forney
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“The human brain is like a railroad freight car --
guaranteed to have a certain capacity but often running empty.”
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“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
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"Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad"
Mark Twain
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“A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.”
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The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines from one city to another, almost as fast as birds can fly, 15 or 20 miles an hour.... A carriage will start from Washington in the morning, the passengers will breakfast at Baltimore, dine at Philadelphia, and sup in New York the same day.... Engines will drive boats 10 or 12 miles an hour, and there will be hundreds of steamers running on the Mississippi, as predicted years ago.
Oliver Evans, 1800
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"The introduction of so powerful an agent as steam to a carriage on wheels will make a great change in the situation of man"
Thomas Jefferson, 1802
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If God had meant for us to fly, he wouldn't have given us the railways.
Unknown
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Rail travel at high speeds is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.
Dionysius Lardner (1842 - 1914) US journalist, short-story writer
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I can see nothing to hinder a steam carriage moving on its ways with a velocity of 100 miles an hour.
Colonel John Stevens, 1812
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Railroad iron is a magician’s rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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One stretch of track was so crroked we met ourselves coming back.
Unknown
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On which side of the platform is my train?" asked a stranger in a Jersey City depot the other day.
"Well, my friend," replied a gentleman, passing, "if you take the left you'll be right; if you take the right you'll be left."
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A conductor on the Chicago & Alton Railroad is reported as having forbidden honeymoon "billing and cooing."
Observing a bridegroom's arm out of place he forbade further demonstrations.
"But I have a right to hug her," said John. "Not on a railroad," said the conductor,
"there is a law against all unjust discriminations on railroads, and as I haven't a woman for
each man on the train to hug, your action is in violation of the law and must be stopped."
Bedrock Democrat, Baker City, Oregon, March 11, 1874
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The unintelligibility of a brakeman's call when announcing a station is proverbial. The other day however one called Yuma plainly enough. There was a sheriff on the train with some prisoners for the penitentiary,
and upon announcing the arrival the brakeman shouted: "Yuma! Change Clothes; 10 years for refreshments!
The Daily Arizona Miner, Prescott, May 20, 1884
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"Almost anything is possible in a train…"
Paul Theroux
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"The one moral, the one remedy for every evil, social, political, financial, and industrial, the one immediate vital need of the entire Republic, is the Pacific Railroad."
Rocky Mountain News, 1866
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"They built the Great Wall of China, didn't they?"
— Charles Crocker's famous justification for bringing Chinese workers to the Central Pacific, 1865
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"The road must be built, and you are the man to do it. Take hold of it yourself. By building the Union Pacific, you will be the remembered man of your generation."
President Abraham Lincoln to Oakes Ames, 1865
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"A train is just a train. But a Steam Engine is a Locomotive"
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