Rail Transport Quotes

In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car.

Trains are not any more energy efficient than the average automobile, with both getting about 48 passenger miles to the gallon.

The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship.

A public, unified and integrated railway - hardly controversial.

The safest way to ship bitumen is by rail. Now, there are other things that you get doing it that way. There's probably more greenhouse gases in shipping it by rail. I think certainly there are.

The main problem with rail is flexibility and affordability.

I love trains. I don't even mind First Great Western, which is a stupid name because it implies every carriage is first class, but they're not.

Trains had the greatest bass sound in the world.

I travel a lot with work... to and from Cornwall and Bristol, so I find myself on lots of trains.

Australia has an economic interest in ensuring our cities have 21st century urban rail transport to reduce traffic congestion.

Nationally, unrestrained Heathrow expansion has prevented the balanced development of regional airports and their economies and the planning of an integrated transport system maximising more environmentally friendly modes of transport such as rail linked more effectively to Europe.

The irony of environmental opposition to the Keystone XL project is that stopping the pipeline to the U.S. will not stop production in the oil sands of Canada. Instead of coming to the United States, the oil will still be produced and shipped by rail or a pipeline similar to the Keystone XL to Canada's Pacific Coast.

Shipping by water is cheaper than by rail, which is cheaper than by truck.

Rail in Europe is incredibly important as far as a transportation medium.

I could go back to the railroad. I liked that job.

Cars would be safer on rails!

I have liked trains since I was a boy, although I was never a train-spotter.

Monorails have their own fan club, which claims more than 2,500 members who swap monorail toys and trinkets. Modern light rail can claim no such devoted fan base.

Mode of providing steam power to locomotives.

When we talk about product by pipeline or product by rail we need to be highly specific about what product we are shipping and under what terms and for what purpose. Solid bitumen by rail is safe as houses, but as again crude by rail poses different risk.