A railway station is something that can generate a city.
A big iron needle stitching the country together.
I'm proud to be a railway modeler.
We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building.
Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.
What thrills me about trains is not their size or their equipment but the fact that they are moving, that they embody a connection between unseen places.
One of my earliest memories of something that caught my attention was of a steam locomotive. I guess mainly because they have so many moving parts that are out in the open. You can watch the valves moving back and forth - the driving rods.
I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.
They were both academics, but my dad had to get a job on the railway, and my mum had to get a job in the Post Office. It was pretty hard in terms of the racism they had to endure.
In this country, you never pull the emergency brake, even when there is an emergency. It is imperative that the trains run on schedule.
Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.
Seaboard Air Line, which was thought by numerous innocents to provide a foothold in aviation, was another favorite, although, in fact, it was a railroad.
A lot of things work better in a locomotive.
It is not the owner of stage-coaches who builds railways.
Trains had the greatest bass sound in the world.
'Homeward Bound.' I find myself listening to that tune a lot when I'm traveling. Sitting in a railway station, wanting to go home, carrying all your stuff with you.
Anyone who has ever sat in a train as it rushes through a dark night will know that sometimes there are long minutes when the coaches slide smoothly along without so much as a shudder.
The murder of my husband by the railways has altered the way I think about everything. I had always thought that the majority of people were decent and honourable. In the wake of the crash, what made me angry more than anything else was the realisation that this was not true. I still find it very hard to come to terms with.
The Ethiopian government's use of the railway from Djibouti to Addis Ababa was, in practice, a hazardous regards transport of arms intended for the Ethiopian forces.
I bought a railroad during this period of time.
She had more curves than a scenic railway
I liked the Ballarat train as a child.
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
I saw this train driver and said, 'I wanna go to Paris.' He said, 'Eurostar?' I said, 'Well I've been on telly but I'm no Dean Martin.' Mind you, at least the Eurostar's comfy. It's murder on the Orient Express isn't it?
A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.
