Railroads

Examples

• The railroads, of course, were thoroughly destroyed on the way. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The first railroads to be built were principally branches of the Liverpool and Manchester one, and chiefly located in the mining and manufacturing county of Lancaster. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Railroads traverse it in every direction, north, south, east, and weSt. The mines are worked. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The railroads and canal should be destroyed beyond possibility of repairs for weeks. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Beauregard, with a large portion of his force, was left south by the cutting of the railroads by Kautz. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The railroads prefer redwood for ties because of its resistance to decay in contact with moist soil. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Other big users are railroads, banks, mail-order houses, and city, state and government offices. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The troops, both of the right and left wings, made most of their advance along the line of railroads, which they destroyed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The service for which this car is intended is primarily to guard railroads and depots adjacent to railroads. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The necessity for this invention arose out of the problem of increasing the capacity of telegraph lines employed in through and way service, such as upon railroads. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The military manager of railroads also was directed to furnish more rolling stock and, as far as he could, bridge material. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• This road also had some features of conventional railroads, such as sidings, turn-tables, freight platform, and car-house. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It has been in practical use for many years on some of the leading railroads of the United States. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But men saw that it was bound to grow, for railroads would have to come to bring the wheat and others to carry it away, and that meant that some day it would be a great metropolis. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• His experiments made him doubtful of the possibility of running such railroads, unless a great amount of very expensive tunneling and grading were first done. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• A force was also collecting on my right, at Jackson, the point where all the railroads communicating with Vicksburg connect. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But railroads and steam-cars constitute only one of the stirring elements of modern civilization. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Both New Bern and Wilmington are connected with Raleigh by railroads which unite at Goldsboro. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• You will now suffer incalculable injury upon your railroads if Hood is not speedily disposed of. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But nobody can recover his yesterdays no matter how much he abuses the clock, and no man can expunge the memory of railroads though all the stations and engines were dismantled. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The General Electric Company has perfected a similar car for use on the suburban branches of street railroads in this country. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• This would have given us control of both the Weldon and South Side railroads. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Mulhall estimates that the steam horse power of railroads in the world amounted in 1896 to 40,420,000, of which the United States had more than one-third. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The West is suffering from foreignly owned railroads, power-resources, and an alien credit control. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• An' so it'll be wi' the railroads. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The making of roads, railroads, canals and tunnels has called forth thousands of ingenious mechanisms for their accomplishment. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In 1898 it was estimated that there were in the United States 14,000 miles of electric railroads, with a nominal capital of $1,000,000,000, and employing 170,000 men. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In the latter part of July Sherman sent Stoneman to destroy the railroads to the south, about Macon. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I wrote to you long ago, urging you to push promptly and to live upon the country, and destroy railroads, machine shops, etc. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• This was to be made over a measured course of five miles from Fort Myer to Alexandria, and back, making a total flight of ten miles over trees, railroads, and rough country. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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