| 单词 | railroad |
| 例句 | An enormous wave of molasses began flowing toward the elevated railroad. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I owned the railroads, the utilities, and the orange properties. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The consolidation of the industry started with innovations in transportation: first canals, then railroads. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z A miner, shoe shiner, or a railroad liner? Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Our milpita, beautiful to me, lies not far from a lonely stretch of railroad tracks. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z Another of his jobs was to unload cement bags from railroad cars. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z On November 15, while she was waiting for the westbound ten-thirty-two, she was astonished to see two ambulances cross the railroad tracks and turn toward the Clutter property. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z But one night, in a railroad yard in Memphis, as Bull and Lucy slept in an empty freight car and Edward kept watch, trouble arrived. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Except for the stationmaster who checked my ticket and a couple of railroad workers, the station was empty, and I wished I had a book or magazine to read while I waited for my train. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z He placed the railroad watch in the bucket, pulled his knees up to his chin, and held his head in his hands. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z The railroad guards handcuffed Señor Rosario to one of the young men and handcuffed the other two together. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z They sprang up in fields along the railroad and were gone by next day. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Claiborne Paul Ellis, known to everyone as C.P., lived just a weed patch north of the railroad tracks separating white Durham from black. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Mother took me to the white hospital, which reluctantly treated the families of black men who worked on the railroad. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z One time, he was assigned to help build a sand bed for a railroad. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Cora had not returned to the railroad station since her arrival, but the day of her deliverance was so vivid she had no trouble finding the road. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z And what is she doing on this side of the railroad tracks anyway? The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z If I placed a safety pin on a steel railroad track and let a train run over it, the safety pin would turn into a pair of bright brand- new scissors. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z In Elberon the night before, under nearly a full moon, hundreds of railroad workers had toiled in the oppressive heat. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z That third trip on the underground railroad began beneath a stable. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z All the railroad men, from Lumbly to Royal, countered with a variation of “Who do you think made it? Who makes everything?” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z African Americans lived in racially segregated ghettos isolated by railroad tracks within small towns or in "colored sections" in the country. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z They led one into the other and were called railroad rooms. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He asked, “Daddy, was it easier work than the railroad?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We would ride back in a railroad car at the end of the day and it was always quiet. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s more than three hundred miles, by railroad.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew if I bore to the right I would find the railroad, and if I bore to the left I had the river to guide me. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The train to Kielce is a normal passenger train, a strange contrast to our history on the railroad. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Sonny had just been honorably discharged from the Air Force, and Lawrence had a good job working for the railroad. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z After another couple of hours, they stumbled across a tiny village between the railroad tracks and a two-lane road. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z With knuckles and clubs, the union men chased the strikebreakers from the mine to the railroad depot and put them on the next train out of town. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z Grown-ups talk in tired, edgy voices about Zick’s Coal Company and take us along in the evening to the railroad tracks where we fill burlap sacks with the tiny pieces of coal lying about. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the railroad men stayed at Mrs. Fisher’s. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They came to the prison railroad yard again. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z During the night before, trucks could be heard rumbling through the streets, carrying wooden crates from the old railroad station to the soccer field. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z The synagogue resembled a large railroad station: baggage and tears. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The directors insisted on many gates, and the railroads refused to channel their exposition traffic through a single depot. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “It’s part of what I was telling you your first day here, in the railroad cave.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z In one notorious plot of 1861, local rebels schemed to assassinate the president-elect when his railroad train passed through Baltimore on the way to Washington for his first inauguration. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite its success, the new laws in North Carolina had rendered the station inoperable—he was visiting the mine merely to leave a message for the underground railroad that he could accept no more passengers. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z We bounce back and forth in the truck as Amar drives over the railroad tracks, staying close to the high cement wall on our right. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z By 1848, the year the canal was completed, the nation’s attention had turned to building railroads. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Some, he heard, were trapped in the railroad yards of the great city a hundred miles to the east. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Up in back of the vacant lot is the railroad track and. the Palace Flophouse. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Between the car floating real soft down the road and Lefty Lewis’s boring stories about the railroad and the union and baseball I was out cold in no time. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Each time she brought her arms down on the lever, she drove a pickax into the rock, swung a sledge onto a railroad spike. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I wished I had met him in a railroad station, or at some highway intersection. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a bulkhead at the end of the lawn made out of railroad ties. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I asked, as we drove over another railroad track. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z As the railroad yard dipped and swooped around the colonel, he tried to hold himself steady by staring into Billy’s eyes. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z A train car or a shantytown by the railroad tracks seemed a more welcoming place. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Many moderates exposed their ignorance of life across the railroad tracks by griping, “We’ve given them houses, schools, jobs, everything they wanted. Now what?” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The Chinese immigrants building the railroads connecting east to west. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Not more than an hour after the Gypsies passed through town, I saw Lightfoot walking the railroad tracks towards Mill Town. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Looking, looking, gotta keep looking, miles to go on this railroad track. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z He had worked in the railroad shops up there before and his old boss had promised him a job come next pay day. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Toward day’s end, I came to an encampment by the railroad tracks. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “The whole town has a good history with helping coloreds and stuff like that. The underground railroad used to go through Galesburg.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “I showed you because you’ve seen more of the railroad than most,” Royal continued. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Get you a railroad” and “Get you a cotton mill” was what big businessmen in Atlanta advised any town that wanted to grow. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The dynamic forces behind this era of globalization were breakthroughs in hardware—from steamships and railroads in the beginning to telephones and mainframe computers toward the end. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z “I took the railroad car,” he said in quiet pride. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z They wheeled the cart through the back streets and across the railroad tracks and came into the main road again at the far edge of the town. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z According to some tales, he hammered steel drilling spikes into granite for a railroad company. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z I smell the reek of creosote, the stuff that soaks the railroad ties. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z Daddy told us never to cross the railroad tracks that led into North Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She’d held out hope that Jimmy’s hogs would lure Royal back in time, but he and his partners were still engaged in their mission for the underground railroad. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Immediately alongside was the abandoned railroad ditch that carried the pipe that carried the aviation gasoline down to the fuel trucks at the airfield. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z As a result, its students were dispersed across the railroad tracks to the remaining two high schools in town, Permian and Odessa High. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Think how many paychecks I would of gotten by now if I had stayed and retired with the railroad. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She and Martin argued over the underground railroad as they hadn’t argued in a long time, and that was before the murderous fine print of the race laws manifested itself. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z So I looked back at that yellow railroad car as we passed it and made my wish. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z But unlike most ruins, the railroads were actually useful, and not just for hoverboarding. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z At 10:15 PM, she placed the rock, as planned, in a stone window in the railroad bridge, and pushed it one arm's length from the edge. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z We’d never seen colored people eating with them, and here was our mother eating with chopsticks like the Chinese men that I had read about who worked on the railroads. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z As in 1935, California had drawn lane number one, the most protected lane, snug up against the railroad embankment, sitting right under Ulbrickson’s nose. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Why, hell, when the railroad puts a branch out here, I could lay it down neat, broke up and seasoned, right beside the track, for a dollar and a half a cord. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Cotton grew in the field that bounded the railroad tracks and the air was laden with the opulent smells of greening crops and leafy forests. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z We decide to follow the railroad tracks to the city, because none of us is good at navigation. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z By combining journalism with anthropology, I’ve tried in previous writings not simply to observe but to participate in the lives of railroad tramps, illegal Mexican immigrants, Kenyan truckers, and even the elite of Aspen, Colorado. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Public contentment with horses and railroads remained high until World War I, when the military concluded that it really did need trucks. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The freight handlers in the railroad yards had shed their overcoats, and sailors from a training ship docked at the wharf carried their naval jackets as they walked along the streets. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The library—where Annabelle eats sandwiches from Hixter’s Bar and Grill with six members of the Warren Township High School track and field team and the Warren Township librarians—sits across from the railroad track. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Afterward, the townspeople found a local man dead in a ditch near the railroad tracks. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z When Cholly was four days old, his mother wrapped him in two blankets and one newspaper and placed him on a junk heap by the railroad. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z We accelerate again, then reach a wide, open road suspended across the railroad tracks I once walked down to reach the compound. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z To the left was an open railroad cut, unfinished, a white wound in the earth. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Um, that man—Mr. Williams, I think—said something about the railroad and the fires.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z We stand next to the railroad tracks, which will carry us into danger. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Tom became a railroad detective, and the steady wage made it possible to raise a family. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Instead, Garfield's bullet wound had been contaminated with bacteria by his own doctors, starting with the first examination on the dirty floor of the railroad depot. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z On a railroad siding off the main tracks, men in linty overalls were loading big pasteboard boxes full of cotton thread onto a freight car. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z They were still concentrated below the railroad tracks, below where the whites lived. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Johanna suggests we take Amity trucks from the end of the railroad tracks out of the city, and she volunteers to supply them to us. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The Man in the White Shirt kept up a steady pace now as he crossed the tall bridge that stretched over a railroad yard and a narrow river. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z “Dorothy”—he was screeching—“you let him out at the railroad yards.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z On rare occasions we would go all the way over to the East Side to the market stalls under the elevated railroad tracks. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z He told her about Beans’s party and the night they came for him in his bed and led him to the railroad station and the boxes of birds. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z And I knew that by the next day, every railroad’s personnel office would have a blackball on me, so I never tried to get another railroad job. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She was trapped on the route to the railroad. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Without her crash bracelets to pull it back, the board would drift along the straight line of the railroad until it reached the break, where it would drop to the ground. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The tobacco picker thumped around the attic for a week before a railroad agent took him on the next leg, boxing him up in a crate and shoving the thing through the front door. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z By his official induction into the underground railroad, he had been its instrument for some time. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The two boats churned toward the railroad bridge with Washington in the lead, but by the time they passed beneath the steel expanse, California had closed the gap to a matter of inches. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It’s big pay day dis cornin’ Saturday at de railroad yards. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z He would not be the first white man to see the underground railroad, but the first enemy. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It was his final mission for the underground railroad. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Besides, freighting the timber to northern mills would keep his railroad cars puffing. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He cannot maintain his balance and keep up, so he aims his tattered tennis shoes at the railroad ties. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z They turned a corner, and they were at the old boarded-up railroad station. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z The railroads had made it known early and forcefully that they had no plans to discount their Chicago fares for the exposition. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The treasure, of course, was the underground railroad. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “So? The railroad yards are where they go to trap pigeons and bring them here. Why did you have to let him go there?” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z They knew I was a railroad man, which, for a waiter, was the best kind of recommendation. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The diagram is a layout of a railroad flat. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Another day, the day before the funeral, Bobby and I were sitting by the railroad tracks. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z In the back was the Catholic railroad official. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z “Well I just thought—last night after the railroad work—” “You thought you might sign up?” he went on, looking carefully away. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z In any event, the music would soon cover their talk of the underground railroad. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The underground railroad—Caesar had been very busy. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Three months earlier, two young white girls who lived nearby in Alcolu, a small mill town where the races were separated by railroad tracks, had gone out to pick flowers and never returned home. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “They worshiped the railroads here, only a blink of an eye ago. And now the iron gods are as forgotten as the emerald hunters...” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z When he and Kerling had taken the train to Cincinnati, they noticed that the railroad stations, the railroads, and the factories they passed were well guarded. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Many people had put off their visits in the expectation that the nation’s worsening economic crisis and pressure from Congress eventually would compel the railroads to reduce their Chicago fares. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z On the far side of the road there was a deep railroad cut—an unfinished railroad; he had not noticed it before. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew he lived across the river like I did, but he lived upriver where there were a few houses just past the railroad bridge. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z After crossing the railroad tracks, we followed right behind Henry when he turned off on another road. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The space up top was so small that only two of us could fit at a time, so Emma and I went, climbing its railroad ties like the rungs of a giant ladder. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Struts and diagonal rods ran between the two wheels to stiffen the assembly and give it the strength of a railroad bridge. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Some of the fanners had quit farming and were cutting railroad ties so they could feed their families. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She had arranged with a railroad employee to provide her with a pass in exchange for groceries. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Lupita, there’s nothing here but tracks and buildings and three railroad cars. There are no guards. Nobody. Dawn’s coming. I’ve seen a better place for us to hide. Hurry up.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z I drive over the railroad tracks toward the city, my eyes wandering over the skyline but not really taking it in. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z A block later she crossed the railroad tracks and then headed east again on Pettigrew. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z This time I walked to the railroad bridge, and I saw the cattle cars, the throngs of people, the dogs. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z It is a lot easier to break the corn down into kernels and pump it, like a liquid, into the grain elevators and into the railroad cars. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I think it was Big Bill Broonzy who used to sing “I Feel So Good,” a really joyful song about a man who is on his way to the railroad station to meet his girl. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z In addition to suffrage, Victoria Woodhull's political platform called for labor reform, nationalizing railroads, prison reform, and rewriting the tax code. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Dr. Cable’s pendant seemed to grow heavier and heavier, wound around her neck as tightly as the vines, brush, and roots grasping the railroad tracks. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Smith led Seabiscuit along the road that wound up to the railroad siding. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The cloth tent had been set on the flatlands in the middle of a field near the railroad tracks. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The directors pressured the railroads to lower fares. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z One day when my mom was driving around, she saw a warehouse across the railroad tracks. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z We found some railroad tracks, which followed the stately curves of the Shenandoah River. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The import of the remark was clear to his audience: it meant that two young soldiers, who had been standing trial for the murder of a Kansas railroad worker, had received the ultimate sentence. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The luckiest ones worked for the post office or as porters on the railroads. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z In the close-knit railroad employee community, most had known the man since he was a boy. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “Why couldn’t you have had him tape the money at the bottom of the railroad trestle or leave it beneath the bridge, Sammy?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He ducked to safety into a railroad tunnel. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z But they also often do drive innovation faster and faster, and the sheer overcapacity that they spur—whether it is in railroad lines or automobiles—can create its own unintended positive consequences. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z My ears were ringing, like when I stood under the railroad bridge while a train went by overhead. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The Irwin racing outfit was a little city on railroad tracks. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He crossed the span, jumping from one railroad tie to another. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z As the Washington boat swept under the black skeleton of the railroad bridge at the three-mile mark, it was still nearly three lengths back with a mile to go. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The expression on his face was exactly like David’s when a member of the railroad crew did something thoughtless and dangerous with a vibrasaw. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z A rumor started, and spread, to the effect that there was an underground railroad too. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Agents of the underground railroad would be waiting. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z For C.P., it occurred when he was eight years old, playing football in a weedy field with a group of black children who lived just over the railroad tracks. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z When the wagon came to take us to the railroad station, Hari was carried out under a little tent of cloth to protect him from the dust along the road. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z As the turnoff to the railroad approached, Tally increased her speed, skimming the water as fast as she dared. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The underground railroad maintained no lines to speak of. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z My stomach sinks and I stare at the railroad tracks. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The second visit caused Martin to resign from his duties with the railroad. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Just a piece down the railroad tracks near Mr. Son Black’s farm. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z It was very small, and perched not atop a cloud but on a very large tower constructed entirely from stacked-up railroad ties, the whole thing set smack in the middle of a grassy plateau. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Royal assured the fugitive that the railroad was at his disposal. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Below the rapids was a railroad bridge laid on limestone piers. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Three railroad workers had been thrown in jail for mocking a Liberty Bond poster, and a woman had been fined for sending twenty dollars to her mother in Germany. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z We spent an odd day, toiling in that railroad yard. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The men had shouted at her to leave, screaming that a railroad yard was not a safe place for children. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z They also show roads, buildings, railroads, transmission lines, mines and caves, vegetation, and towns, cities, rivers, lakes, canals, marshes, and waterfalls. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I worked a couple of weeks for other railroads, to get their identification, and then I was set. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They take him and two younger boys, sitting nearby, to a cavernous railroad shed, where seven other officers are holding twenty migrants. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z When I get back to the lot, Rosie is standing some distance from the menagerie with the general manager of the Nesci Brothers, the sheriff, and a railroad official. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The railroad crossed it near San Dona going up to the front. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z As the train slowed down at each railroad station, Brown tossed the latest update out the window to an Associated Press agent, who spread the news by telegraph. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Shouting it out to the backs of black boys already disappearing into the bushes that flanked the railroad tracks, C.P. felt a tingle coursing through his body. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The sheriff and the railroad officials return and greet the general manager as though he were visiting royalty. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z For an agent of the underground railroad, presumably no stranger to peril and risk, he evinced a nervous personality. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Dubbed “Project Greek Island,” in the event of an attack on Washington, DC, senators and congressional representatives were to be evacuated from the nation’s capital by railroad and delivered to the Greenbrier’s bunker. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z We walked past the railroad tracks and right on down Highway 50. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z After a religious service in the Capitol on Friday afternoon, the casket was taken back to the Baltimore and Potomac railroad station. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Gone are the railroads, including where Al Spencer and his gang pulled off the last train robbery in Oklahoma, in 1923. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I write home about how I’ve made it to the big time, with my hot new railroad slave and all the fancy people I rub elbows with. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a passion for trains—his office was littered with books about the history of railroads, model locomotives, paintings of trains trundling on tracks through green hills and over bridges. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “It was on the other railroad that started from the east. He wrote long letters about it.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z This mysterious underground railroad was spoken of, in whispers, in the quarter on the Brodas plantation, just as it was on all the other plantations. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The car rattles as we pass over the railroad tracks, letting me know we’re in my neighborhood now. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Like all depot agents, Mr. Tuttle was cow coroner for the railroad, so I guessed right off that this was the farmer whose cow and mule got killed yesterday. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Each protocol had a different function: TCP/IP was the basic plumbing of the Internet, or the basic railroad tracks, on which everything else above it was built and moved around. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Impossible as it seemed, the underground railroad had a spur in Georgia. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The workers installed three sets of parallel railroad tracks along the length of the building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The free Negroes, the Quakers, the Methodists, the German farmers, who helped runaway slaves in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, started using phrases and words suited to the idea of a railroad. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Why a city would have two big railroad stations—North Station and South Station—I couldn’t understand. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z This was the rolling home of the railroad guards, men whose business it was to be forever guarding freight rolling from here to there. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he climbed up to a railroad track that seemed deserted and kept walking. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The black men came from the railroad tracks too, to stand on the bridge and look down at them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The biggest event Suffolk had seen in years was a traveling sideshow that came through town on the railroad tracks, with a stiffed whale in a boxcar. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z We’d put a piece of scrap metal-—or a penny, if we were feeling extravagant—on the railroad tracks right before the train came. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The man fed them, whittled toys for the little girl, and, through a line of intermediaries, contacted the railroad. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z At least they've invited me, one of us, in at the beginning of something big; and besides, if I refused to join them, where would I goto a job as porter at the railroad station? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Half a mile below the railroad bridge was a new automobile bridge on which stood dozens of additional officials. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Working on the railroad was considered a good job, and A. Philip Randolph, perhaps the most important figure in the civil rights movement, was making it a better job. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Anyway, at the railroad personnel hiring office down on Dover Street, a tired-acting old white clerk got down to the crucial point, when I came to sign up. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt on solid ground again, hearing the rhythm of my feet pounding against each railroad tie. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Often, we would get there early and play on the railroad tracks while we waited for it. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z It winds through a rocky meadow, where she can still see some of the railroad track hidden in high grass. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Grandpa must of been twenty-five at least when he turned over the privy at the depot with a Yankee railroad bigwig in it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z For many, the Urban League business card they were given at the railroad station was all they had to go on. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z As the new minister at the Church of Christ on Texas and Clements streets on the Southside, he undertook the challenge of desegregating the schools and obliterating the boundary of the railroad tracks. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I somehow managed to get myself out through the rear entrance of the railroad tunnel and ran home to my mother as fast as I could,” said Heinz. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I followed him over a low white-washed railroad fence and we walked back a hundred yards along the road under Doctor Eckleburg's persistent stare. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Would one of the railroad guards climb up to the hopper car, open the turret, and shine his light down inside the car? Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z When he was at the railroad plant and yards, he asked the foreman, "How are these poor people keeping alive? They appear to me to be starved." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z I figured the black lines with the little marks through them were for the railroad tracks. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She could work all day at the railroad site, then race David and Shay home on hoverboards, her backpack full of more scrap metal than she could have lifted a month before. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z On the way home he stopped at the railroad track and waited for the night freight train. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I will walk every railroad tie from here to Cheyenne and back for this. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z On June 1, 1893, workers removed temporary railroad tracks that had scarred the lawns near the lagoon and just south of the Electricity and Mines buildings. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She ignored the sound of her pursuers, shooting down the creek bed and across a spur of ore, then onto the river that led to the railroad. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The railroad discharged him once they got the full story. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The railroad bridge downriver had a draw section in the middle that was raised up. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Her days of pulling up railroad ties soon paid off, the jack tearing a hole the size of a doggy door. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Across the railroad tracks on that afternoon of February 1, blacks discussed all of these events and others not mentioned by whites. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z But it also had to be fairly close to railroad lines, so people and equipment could quickly move in and out. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, the depot master at the railroad told Jack’s mother not to expect the shipment, that the Nazis were seizing everything coming in by rail. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Fifteen years he had put into the railroad, and he had no seniority, no rights or benefits, to show for it because of his race. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But the living were not the only ones to be found on the greatest railroad in the nation. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z I found that if you walked up and showed a railroad line’s employee identification card, the conductor—even a real cracker, if you approached him right, not begging—would just wave you aboard. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Her husband, a big handsome man just slightly shorter than his wife, worked on the railroad and was gone for days at a time. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z In the South the races were strictly segregated by law, not just on railroads but on streetcars and buses, in schools, restaurants, hotels, theaters, and parks, and even in cemeteries and at drinking fountains. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z "My mother was a servant in the Westing household, my father worked for the railroad and was the gardener on his days off." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Swinging their hands and scuffling their feet, they came to the end of Cannery Row and turned up to the railroad track. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z When spo-radic pushes came from the federal government to change the status quo, to break down the boundary of the railroad tracks, they were met with swift and well-organized resistance. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The railroad tracks bisected the park, perhaps not the optimal design. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Financial backers of both institutions—the Chemical Foundation in Columbia’s case and William Crocker, a banking and railroad magnate, in Berkeley’s case—seemed eager to pony up funds to cover Sloan’s further research. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Follow the railroad tracks heading west of Manifest. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z A stranger to the music could not have made a distinction between the songs sung a few minutes before and those being danced to in the gay house by the railroad tracks. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Before the British Empire there were no railroads or postal services in India, and Africa was full of tribal warfare, with spears, and had no proper clothing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The railroads scheduled special trains to carry the masses of humanity southward. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally they turned right on Columbia, followed the steep descent to the waterfront, scurried hastily across railroad tracks, and made it safely to the docks. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Mrs. Garner had sown the seeds of Caesar’s flight in many ways, but one instruction in particular brought him to the attention of the underground railroad. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Then Mudd explained the route to the next stop on their underground rebel railroad. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I went along with the railroad job for my own reasons. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z David had discovered a new railroad track a year or so earlier. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z She said to look for them along the railroad tracks. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z It had happened thirty miles downstate, and the victims supposedly worked for the railroad, but nothing specific on top of that. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He pocketed the money, turned, and crossed the railroad tracks. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Crossing the fields to the north I had seen a train pass on this railroad, visible a long way across the flat plain, and I thought a train might come from Portogruaro. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “I thought the railroad authority came out because someone was trying to cause trouble for Uncle Al.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Central American migrants headed for the United States ride in railroad cars through southern Mexico. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I watched a pile of corn pour into a railroad hopper car painted with Cargill’s blue and yellow logo. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I went out the back way and walked a quarter of a mile to the railroad tracks. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z His parents were taken to the railroad station where they were loaded into cattle cars and deported. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Not far from where the railroad crossed the river lay the town of Tahlequah. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He had the cash from his railroad pay check on the table in front of him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Walking back to the school grounds from the railroad station in the descending darkness we overtook a lone figure sliding along the snow-covered edge of the street. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The fair had become so intensely compelling that one woman, Mrs. Lucille Rodney of Galveston, Texas, walked thirteen hundred miles along railroad tracks to reach it. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was a long journey through the snow today, down a couple of neighborhood blocks, then around the funny lime-green house with the tiny white fence, down the hill to the railroad tracks. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z By that autumn, his farm was the latest office of the underground railroad, busy with fugitives and conductors. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The Cold Storage building was located by the railroad tracks, out of sight and overlooked. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The railroad yard was a desert now, except for a hospital train marked with red crosses—on a siding far, far away. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Fletcher’s lies collapsed immediately—one of those weak religious specimens—and he relinquished the name of his associate on the railroad, a man named Lumbly. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z They parked the truck by the Trailways bus station and walked across the railroad tracks. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He walked until he reached the railroad tracks. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z After we left Mr. Willie Williams’ Do Drop Inn, the last stop before whitefolksville, we had to cross the pond and adventure the railroad tracks. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Alongside the neat gray wharf sheds that lined the river and canal across the railroad tracks, Lew Pants huddled, a silent and smoky plea for urban renewal. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is long and white,” he explains, “cross-hatched where long ago stitches stabbed in. Like railroad tracks.” Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z It rolled over the San Diego and Arizona railroad tracks that fed the racetrack, tearing them out. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They left the cart in the woods and crossed a railroad track and came down a steep bank through dead black ivy. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “Shoveling railroad snow. Well that makes sense, we always did that the first term.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z To have even a hope of achieving this, the railroads would have to reduce their fares, and Frank Millet would have to intensify his efforts to attract people from all corners of the country. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The last time she’d been in one of the railroad’s departure stations it had been brightly lit, generous in its comforts, and had delivered her to the bounty of Valentine. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z When not concerning himself with railroad matters, he said, he led a quiet life on his farm. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Some spent the night in elaborate motor homes as long as railroad cars. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The people at this particular meeting didn’t believe in Mojo, for its magic, like everything else in Odessa, had never extended across the railroad tracks. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Dorothy’s house was across the railroad tracks on the mountain that overlooked the town. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He looked glad to see them, like some of the people you see in railroad stations. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Hoisting the bundle onto his shoulder, he carried it down the hill and dropped it next to the red railroad car. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It was predicated on a searing critique of large corporations, particularly railroads, and the wealthy elite in the North and South. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But without the use of both hands, he could barely wind them, and so he oiled and observed as much as possible and anxiously compared the clocks with his railroad watch. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Thousands more swastika flags hung in railroad stations. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Shortly after four o’clock, Chicago standard railroad time, the Tribune received its first cable. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z At least they've invited me, one of us, in at the beginning of something big; and besides, if I refused to join them, where would I goto a job as porter at the railroad station? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Problem Solve as to how to obtain food after the railroad lines were cut off, strategize as to earlier successes during the war. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z This was the nearest Aunt Loma had come to being nice since I was a little bitty boy, and I liked it, despite I also felt like she was trying to railroad me. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Burnham would have to build a railroad within the fairgrounds to transport steel, stone, and lumber to each construction site. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The railroads usually ran through the flat silent countryside where the boy could walk alone with his terrifying thoughts. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He bade his wife and two young boys good-bye and boarded a train the way he had years earlier when he served as a railroad detective, riding from station to station in pursuit of criminals. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The railroad tracks that once ran across the trestle are gone, and now there are only thin wooden slats. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The next spring the town council voted to widen the road on each side of the railroad tracks, which meant the Cold Sassy tree had to go. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Two weeks beforehand his hotel reservation had been made and for a long time he had carried his railroad ticket in an envelope in his pocket. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z What can you say about the family who is suing the railroad after their drunk son was killed walking on the tracks? Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z After a half-hour march, we arrived in the very middle of a field crossed by railroad tracks. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He hurried to the village railroad station, carrying the telegram in his hand. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z They had cut off communications, pulled down power lines, demolished bridges, and ripped up railroad tracks. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z And they burned every fence and house and barn in sight; the railroads they bent up like hairpins—over two hundred miles of’em.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z In the space of ten years, new railroad lines were laid, track by track, four thousand miles, sprawling east, west, south, and north from the central terminus: Chicago. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Out in the Midwest the railroads were intact and carried the farmers’ grain and stock to market; trade was good, and prices high. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d rather read the railroad pamphlets, which make homesteading sound as easy as rubbing a magic lamp. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z She waited at a railroad signal outside town where the train would slow and maybe stop. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z And the sun went down, and Billy found himself bobbing in place in a railroad yard. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon enough, most of those centuries-old trees had been chopped into wood to build ships and railroads and buildings for America’s brand-new cities. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z Up in back of the vacant lot is the railroad track and. the Palace Flophouse. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Blue eyes blazing, hands on hips, she watched her daddy go down the walk and cross the railroad tracks. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z But he had ended up working on the railroads, and he didn’t regret it, because now he had a small pension. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z Navy made a bid, charging forward as they passed under the railroad bridge at the two-mile mark, but Wink Winslow called for more. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z If you stood in front of the store and looked right, you saw the town—the railroad tracks, the department stores like Leggets and Wool- worth. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I figured Mr. Tuttle was picturing me cut to pieces and himself down at my house trying to settle, cheap, my folks’ claim against the railroad. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He checked the time on the glass clocks against the time on his uncle’s railroad watch, which he kept with his tools and wound diligendy every morning. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z When Red made it north, he took up with the railroad and dedicated himself to the cause with a sinister resourcefulness. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Like in most cities, the black section of town was along the railroad tracks, so we didn’t have too far to go. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I tossed my bedroll and then took a good jump to clear the railroad ties, but when I hit the ground there was a good slope to it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Renowned educator Horace Mann saw phrenology as “the guide to philosophy and the handmaiden of Christianity,” and Horace Greeley of “Go West, young man” fame advocated phrenology tests for all railroad engineers. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “If I start naming my kid Madison,” he says, “you might think, ‘Oh, you want to go live across the railroad tracks, don’t you?’ Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z If I hadn’t wanted to be home so badly, it would have been okay if the railroad bridge never did get fixed. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the black men in Monroe earned their living working for the railroad line that ran through the town. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z As a railroad man, Grandpa had spent lots of time away from home. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time of the Crusaders it was long swords and arrows, and at Gettysburg they were blasting each other to bits from cannons filled with lead balls, iron chains, railroad spikes, and door knobs. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z In the press center at the Poughkeepsie railroad station, the nation’s sportswriters sat down to typewriters and began to pound out superlatives. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z This week the factory manufactured locomotive engines—Caesar wondered whether they would one day be used by the underground railroad. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Some are purchased from local breeders, while others are trapped in big-city railroad yards. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z A small, sporadic stream of automobiles with faded paint and patched tires bounced along the rutted roads that paralleled the railroad tracks, all heading the same direction—west. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Once I got my breath back, I crawled along the railroad embankment to the road and sat down to wait for Mom and Dad to come back. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z His father was heir to the Vanderbilt railroad and oceanic shipping fortune; his mother’s father had invented the fantastically lucrative Bromo-Seltzer. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He clapped on his derby hat and walked quickly to the railroad station. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I had also taught Reginald how he could work a little while for a railroad, then use his identification card to travel for nothing—and Reginald loved to travel. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The arrested men rode on a train with boarded windows— prisoners had been shot at from railroad sidings—from Seattle to a work camp in Montana. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Junior was over visiting when I was talking about those times and he asked, “Daddy, didn’t the city pay better than the railroad?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They went on out to Callahan round the railroad shops and he decided to give a big chicken and macaroni supper that night, free to all. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z There it was: a small southern town, cut through by railroad tracks and next to the river of concrete that was I-285. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z It’s astonishing, really, how she’s a different person from the one who was just standing at the crossroads, kicking dirt and flinging a rock at the railroad sign. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Here an angle is formed, the avenue and its streetcar tracks on one side, the river and levee and railroad tracks on the other. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “I made the flight at a very low altitude, following the railroad tracks,” said pilot Zoya Parfyonova, who managed to find the right place. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Before the British Empire there were no railroads or postal services in India, and Africa was full of tribal warfare, with spears, and had no proper clothing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Finally, we go under the highway and railroad bridge and come out on the flats of the West Branch of the Delaware. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ah, I see them every night under the railroad bridge,” the Vitamin Kid scoffed. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Red, you still got your old railroad identification?” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Or a forgotten railroad tunnel that can lead you into another world entirely. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z So out of the gate of the railroad yard and into the streets of Dresden marched the light opera. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The judge unknotted the scarf and let the flowered silk float down around the booty: her father's railroad watch, a pearl necklace, cuff links, a pin and earrings set, a clock. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z On Percy’s left were industrial warehouses and railroad tracks. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z A clean-shaven Pinkus glanced at his; but when he saw that Ralph noticed, said, “So you’re a few minutes late, forget it. What are we, railroad trains, we have to run on time?” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z That morning she was on her way to the railroad station. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z One day Mars Bar would lead Maniac down the river, down the tracks, past the railroad gondolas, each with its mountain of coal, to the rolling mill at the steel plant where his father worked. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z With no means to pay off their “debts,” people in prisons were sold as forced laborers to lumber camps, brickyards, railroads, farms, plantations, and dozens of corporations throughout the South. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z A Catholic railroad official who was his friend secretly got them for him. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Marti scanned for surveillance confidently; the street running along the railroad tracks seemed deserted. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Pattillo grew up in the thirties, the son of a blacksmith turned railroad worker in a small segregated Louisiana town. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z At dawn, he leaves, hoping to catch a bus back to the railroad tracks. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The South was starving, its railroads and seaports gone; Grant was only a few miles from Richmond; Thomas was in Tennessee; and Sherman was roaring up through South Carolina. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z If Gideon leaves Des Moines, Iowa, at 6:45 a.m., traveling one railroad tie at a time, and I leave Manifest, doing the same, how long will it take us to meet? Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z We moved into a wooden building on the edge of town that had once been a railroad depot. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z They picked through the brush at the base of the railroad bridge. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z He makes room next to his paintings, his railroad cars, and his violin and mandolin and mandola. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z The dog ran and ran until they reached a railroad track. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Even today, with Eurasian crops and with trucks and railroads to transport produce, food production in Australia remains a risky business. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Colonel Meecham got out of the car and stood watching the train silently reciting the names of the railroad lines tattooed on the sides of the freight cars. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The milkman, the mailman, or the railroad brakeman? Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z It’s got a railroad switch line, but light goods like clothes are going by truck today, and the place is badly located for trucks. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The next night, the town of Columbia gathered in the darkness to see Seabiscuit off on what would be the final cross-country journey of a career that spanned 50,000 railroad miles. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z More time for the railroad to reach out, or for another opportunity to present itself. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z A month later under cover of night, operatives filled in the entrance to the tunnel beneath his house, per railroad policy. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z She pointed towards the river, northwest, past the railroad tracks to the dark hills. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps there was not enough money for railroad fare. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Who knows. The railroad took him to places he never told me about,” my mother answered angrily. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw the glistening of the railroad tracks and my eyes fastened on them. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Her point of departure that final voyage on the underground railroad was a tiny station beneath an abandoned house. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He and about thirty of his classmates were walking in early spring toward the train station, where their teacher had sent them to pick up coal that had spilled from railroad cars during loading. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I ran until the sound of blood pulsing in my ears was louder than the thoughts in my head; then I turned around and ran back, swinging around the pasture to the red railroad car. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The three of them in his kitchen meant that Lovey didn’t know about the railroad, and they hadn’t mentioned the shopkeeper’s name at any point. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z When they got to the railroad site, David announced that they had to clear more track, using vibrasaws to cut through the vegetation that had grown up around the metal rails. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The cafe waiter and all the railroad workers spoke Spanish. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt certain if I memorized that book I could marry the Prince of Wales—or at least a railroad president.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “He jumped down into that railroad ditch and took off like a frightened rabbit.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z In that day the railroads—growing, fighting among themselves, striving to increase and to dominate—used every means to increase their traffic. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z A decrepit footbridge takes me over the tracks of the Metro North railroad—Sing Sing may be the only prison anywhere with a commuter railroad running through it—and other officers start to appear. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “If we took the rails, the scrap yard might be suspicious and tell the railroad company,” O’Dell answered. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes he followed the roads from one town to another, but if he could, he would follow railroad tracks. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z And in its flutter and swoop I heard the sound of a railroad train highballing it, lonely across the lonely night. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The railroad tracks are littered with broken dolls, old tires, dead dogs, and worn shoes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z When Charles had left for his voyage, there were a few trains; now the railroad zigzagged all over the country, reaching places only horse-drawn carriages had gone before. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Clarkston was originally settled by yeoman farmers and railroad workers in the years after the Civil War. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z “Those fool demons are using too much dynamite. They must have some amateurs on. Why, on the railroads we’d only have used half that charge to blast our way into a mountain.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The sheriff returns to the lot with railroad officials and makes noises about vagrancy laws. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The creosote and tar smell of the railroad tracks woke him from the dreaming. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z But mostly, I could taste the sadness in his voice when he told me I couldn’t stay with him for the summer while he worked a railroad job back in Iowa. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z He was walking toward me, one railroad tie after another, as if he’d spent the whole summer getting back to me. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I don’t remember for sure, but all I knows is that if I had stayed with the railroad, I would be a rich man today. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Only so much we can do, though. The railroad doesn’t much care what we have to say, and they own the land.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “All right, all right. I got my job on the railroad to go back to anyway.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “He and Uncle Al are meeting with the railroad authority.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z It was her grandmother talking that Sunday evening when Caesar approached Cora about the underground railroad, and she said no. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Justin’s master often hired him out for masonry work and a sympathetic employer made arrangements with the railroad on his behalf. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The heavy snow paralyzed the railroad yards of one of the large towns south of us on the Boston and Maine line. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Or the underground railroad could help you, with its secret trunk lines and mysterious routes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The most startling corridor—my favorite, actually—was the long, semi-open one connecting the max facility to the school building and Tappan, across the railroad tracks. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Williams was well aware of this, but as he paddled along holding on to a railroad tie, he inadvertently floated across the “line.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I would hear them every morning when I passed the railroad car and paused over the chickweed and bull thistle growing where Tyler had buried the rifle. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “We have to bring in the railroad,” he said. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Monday morning, I was back at work on the railroad. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He wanted to be certain, this day, that it all went well, laying it all out like the tracks of a railroad. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The last boxcar was the railroad guards’ heaven on wheels. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He was sketching rapidly, first the outline of a block of states, then lines to represent rivers and railroads and small squares for towns. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z “You think the railroad company was going to lay drainage pipes on top the ground?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He took me along the railroad tracks to the bend by the woods. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Tennessee lay outside Royal’s posting, but the railroad’s local representative had been out of contact since the wildfire. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z They made a beeline for the lake—through the streets, across the railroad tracks, not walking but running, trying to avoid any trouble along the way. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z There was no crisis in the availability of horses, no dissatisfaction with railroads. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They launched into a long discussion of their memories, both of railroading and of the Sierras. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z In return for a favor to some white mobster, my new boss and his wife had just been given a six- months numbers banking privilege for the Bronx railroad area called Motthaven Yards. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “And our passengers aren’t supposed to talk about how the railroad operates—it’d put a lot of good people in danger. They could talk if they wanted to, but they don’t.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z This railroad turned out to be the protocols I mentioned above—the language of the Internet and World Wide Web. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z I step over old railroad tracks and continue to walk down one more stretch of American Street. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Back in New York, stone broke and without any means of support, I realized that the railroad was all that I actually knew anything about. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z As we humped the wheelbarrow over the railroad tracks, I looked back. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The landlord called our new home a railroad apartment: each room leading to the next, like railway cars. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “Maybe so, but Ah’ll ride de train long as Ah got railroad fare.” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z My father worked for the Germans on the narrow-gauge railroad that transported lumber and other supplies from our area to Germany. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Townshend hurried to the railroad depot, arriving within five minutes of the shooting. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z On the way to work, Shay explained more about the long, flat roller coasters called railroads. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I didn’t say that the railroad had been fit living for me pretty near my whole life and I didn’t see why this summer was any different. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z This Hampden was a bombed-out expanse of water towers, rusted railroad tracks, sagging warehouses and factories with the doors boarded up and the windows broken out. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z If I had been railroaded, the authorities would have known how I’d gotten it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It required electronic railroad tracks that could run between everyone’s hardware, and railroad cars that could transport documents or data, in a way that could be read by anyone’s software. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z I found a cramped attic for my mother and aunt and brother behind some railroad tracks. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw them as we approached the short stretch that lay between the railroad tracks and the Golden Day. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He had worked the railroads for fifteen years, making enough money to build his wife a house on a nice property of a hundred acres of land. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z As he turned, it seemed that everything in the freight yard—horses, wagons, automobiles, railroad cars—was coming right at him on a wave of molasses. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z She explained, too, how the elevated railroad being erected over Sixty-third Street would carry guests directly to Jackson Park. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z By the time Vincent's name was entered into the ledger in the town hall, his existence recorded and announced, a railroad had diverted some of the traffic away from Zundert. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z But David knew the rivers, the spurs of the railroad, and the other metal paths the Rusties had left behind, so they made good time toward their goal. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The row was dimly lit by the warning lantern where the railroad crossed the street and by one small carbon-filamented globe that burned on the porch of Jenny’s. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The railroad track seemed to plunge straight into the mountain, disappearing into a pile of boulders. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The growl came again, prickling the hairs on my arms, and a moment later a furry face appeared between two of the lower railroad ties. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Big domestic mammals further revolutionized human society by becoming our main means of land transport until the development of railroads in the 19th century. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I made my way to the corridor and off the railroad car on legs weakened by more than fatigue and anger. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z He had on the farmer’s usual baseball cap, a yellow shirt, and overalls—the stripy blue kind worn by railroad workers. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z With my flour sack stuffed with plants and weeds, I wandered along the railroad tracks, letting my footsteps fall evenly on each tie. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Although Lincoln does not know this, 120 miles south of Washington, at the important railroad and communications center of Petersburg, Virginia, a siege that started in June 1864 is nearing its end. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z He learned that railroad stations, post offices, courthouses, and churches were places to escape from the cold for a few hours in the late night. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The people of the house had gone away for three days to visit relatives; Gabriel had driven them to the railroad station after supper, leaving Esther clearing up the kitchen. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z When the railroad police came through the train, impaling the haystacks to flush out stowaways, the trainers packed the boys into tack trunks. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Other than that, he went wherever there was room to go forward — along roads and alleys and railroad tracks, across fields and cemeteries and golf courses. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Then they were discovered by the railroad detective, who forced them to jump from the moving train at gunpoint. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z I cross an iron bridge over a ravine of railroad tracks, find the brick walls rising stories above me, go through a set of double doors, and then I am inside the factory. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z For a museum, it didn’t look like much—a little house like an old-fashioned railroad station, some drills and pumps and old steam shovels on display outside. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z And at other locations in the district: the railroad, the granary, the power station, and the armory. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Like a railroad, the museum permitted them to see the rest of the country beyond their small experience, from Florida to Maine to the western frontier. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z There is nothing more agreeable, more pleasantly summery, than to stroll along railroad tracks in a new shirt. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “There’s that place across the river where you could ski. The place where they have the rope tow on that steep hill across from the railroad station. You could go over there.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He had been there from time to time on railroad passes; he liked what he saw. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z And now in my mind I stood upon the walk looking out across the hole past a Hooverville shanty of packing cases and bent tin signs, to a railroad yard that lay beyond. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandma lived somewhere in between, in one of those towns the railroad tracks cut in two. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z If Caesar could make it the thirty miles to Fletcher’s house, the shopkeeper pledged to convey him to the underground railroad. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z In railroad offices in Mexico City, in a large control room, computers plot train routes with blue and green lines, and at least once every six months the screens flicker, then black out. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “I was altogether disappointed with the railroad—it was so rough and so much plague with the many changes.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The railroad ties sat in another pile; at least all the Smokies’ wood didn’t come from live trees. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z There Booth and Herold quenched their thirst and sought a ride south, across the Rappahannock River to Port Royal, then on to a nearby railroad station. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The railroad had taken that sassafras down some years earlier to make room for a bigger depot platform. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Lower down and halfway around the mountain, another river crossed David’s railroad track. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Back when things were still civilized, the rich folks from town used to come up and stay their weekends in grand hotels, and ride on the gravity railroad. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “Do you remember when the railroad authority came out in Davenport?” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The administration area in which Hungry Joe had pitched his tent by mistake lay in the center of the squadron between the ditch, with its rusted railroad tracks, and the tilted black bituminous road. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z All around are flat-roofed, boxy warehouse buildings, and beyond them the flat railroad lands where the trains used to shunt back and forth, once the only entertainment available here on Sundays. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Cora suspected a kind of tunnel madness afflicted railroad engineers, to a man. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Uncle Al had the good fortune to be in the vicinity and was able to score a sleeping car and two flats for a song from railroad officials desperate to free up their siding. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “At the top of the ridge. There’s talk of the railroad expanding.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Although our mothers forbade it, we also played around the railroad tracks. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “It would bring the railroad closer to the river and the mill.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Just behind the house, a freight train lumbered past on the railroad tracks that the observation train would follow during the California race. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z She’d cook and clean all day at the diner on Third Avenue for fishermen, railroad workers, and the occasional crew of navy men. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “They keep us on the north side of the railroad tracks, next to the river and their dump. Where none of them want to live.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence was working full-time on the railroad and living in a house filled with children, Zakariyya was still in jail, and times had gotten tough for Sonny, who was now busy selling drugs. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Then the bows of three boats began to materialize out of the gloaming, just beyond the railroad bridge. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Brash skyscrapers, towering high above the city’s busy markets and railroads, made almost anything seem possible. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z With the coming of the railroads and the grain elevator, the sacks suddenly became a problem. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z When we moved to Dallas in 1928, I was working for the railroad. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In New York, the sisters arranged a magnetic healing session with multimillionaire financier and railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Somewhere just after the endless Highway 900, after a lunch stop for a bagel and water, Annabelle tackles the Coal Mines Trail, which parallels a railroad track before looping through a dark and fern-filled forest. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z At the footsteps on the stairs, they steeled themselves for the latest representative of the underground railroad. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It was two stories tall and painted an industrial green, and was so close to the railroad tracks that you could wave to the engineer from the front window. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z There were no trees to speak of in Battle Mountain, but one corner of the dump had huge piles of railroad ties and rotting lumber that were great for climbing and carving your initials on. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Whatever you say, boss,” Z said, and he slipped out of the door, down the alley, and across the railroad tracks, disappearing into the trees on the far side. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z The Chicago Tribune made fare reductions a crusade and openly attacked the railroads. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “If I can manage the young one, I can the old one,” muttered Jo, as she walked away, leaving Laurie bent over a railroad map with his head propped up on both hands. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Instinctively, she headed for the railroad tracks where she worked every day. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The Specials might have expected her to turn off on another river, but the sudden appearance of an old railroad track had surprised them. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I trapped furs and Perry worked with the Alaska Road Commission the first winter then he got work on the railroad for a short while. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of the New Haven Line’s cooks and waiters still in railroad service today will remember old Pappy Cousins. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He was eating alone near some railroad tracks when migra agents grabbed him. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z For the first time, she crossed into another state without using the underground railroad. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Control of the railroads is not returned to their owners until two years later. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z We were divided into gangs, each under an old railroad man. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Scene 2: Squatters camp along the railroad tracks. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In its former life, this trail was a working railroad. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z They work together, along railroads and in the desert, taking turns tracking on foot and driving ahead in the Bronco, sometimes for days. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Everything was like a picture show to her, and she was the one on the railroad track, or the one trapped in the sheik’s tent when it caught on fire. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The main source of relief from the heat for the kids in Welch was the public swimming pool, down by the railroad tracks near the Esso station. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The bridge had been bombed after all, so we watched them come in line after line over the railroad bridge, the smoke of the burning synagogue still rising black behind them. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z At Caesar’s request the station agent told of how he came to work for the underground railroad. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z But police, railroad security agents, or la migra could bar the doors, trapping him inside. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z They scraped together what provisions they could, stealing freely from neighbors they now knew to be dead, and made it to the railroad station. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The slave catcher shared rumors of a new branch of the underground railroad said to be operating in the southern part of the state, as impossible as it sounded. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The couple hurried to the railroad station, boarding a train headed for Hartford, Connecticut...which was as far away as they could get. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Thus Harriet learned that the Underground Railroad that ran straight to the North was not a railroad at all. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Those were little towns that wouldn’t even be there if it weren’t for the railroad running through. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The coast was clear, and the chaplain jumped out of Major Major’s office through the window, darted swiftly around the comer of the tent, and leaped down inside the railroad ditch to hide. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Kind Sam in jail; Sam tarred and feathered, interrogated about the underground railroad, broken-boned and senseless. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z At the turn of the last century, someone thought he could make his fortune raising the timber for railroad ties. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z I sold sandwiches, coffee, candy, cake, and ice cream as fast as the railroad’s commissary department could supply them. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z We had Mama’s teaching check, Daddy’s railroad check, and the money Grandma India had earned from her work as a maid. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time the three boats passed under the railroad bridge at mile three, Cornell had nosed out in front. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I gathered from the argument, which was getting pretty loud, that the farmer was mad about the amount Mr. Tuttle had offered to settle the claim against the railroad. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The sheriff and railroad official exchange nervous glances. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The shrieking shack was an old skeleton of a house tucked away in a field near the railroad tracks. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z This was when the railroads were being built and when Wall Street emerged. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I was afraid he’d want to wait to ask some of his old-timer railroad friends for their opinion. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She cared nothing for railroads, those dangerous, dirty things. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z When they found the cove, they left the manager in charge of the boat, crossed some railroad tracks, walked gingerly across a narrow trestle, and headed uphill through the woods. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Señor Rosario soon found the railroad tracks, and they all started walking northward. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z The war in Europe had ended and the railroad cars piled high with dead were a distant clamor, though it had not quieted down entirely. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Once when I had a little time from the railroad, Elzenia, my brother, Johnny, and me went up north along the Oklahoma border before the first of our children was born. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They were coming from Stawki Station, the railroad yard just on the other side of the ghetto wall. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z One morning on the way to the railroad track, David pulled his board up alongside Tally’s. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Far down the course, his assigned lane was going to carry the Husky Clipper under the railroad bridge right at the point where water swirled around behind an abutment and flowed back upriver. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z We stopped under a railroad bridge and got out of the car to admire the river that ran through the town. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I spotted Auk IV lying forlornly in the coal dust beside the railroad track. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Come down out of there. I work for this railroad. You are not supposed to be in there. This car is railroad property.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z After the Revolutionary War, Pittsburghers built their opportunities from whiskey and farming, then they broke their backs on coal and the railroad. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z It’s only going to get better once the elevated railroad is expanded. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I did some odd jobs, some day-labor work, but before long I found out that the railroad was hiring and I got on. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The barn of shackles, the hole in the earth, this broken-down boxcar—the heading of the underground railroad was laid in the direction of the bizarre. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “I hear there was another shtetl taken to a railroad station somewhere in Russia.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z My sister Leabie joined us and I took her across the railroad line to enroll her at Orlando High School. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “No telling. There are so many people being moved around, one station at a time. It’s hard to get messages through. The railroad is God’s work, but maddening to manage.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “A fence post made from a railroad tie had hit the center of the right wing violently enough to spin the plane sideways,” Phil explained. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z As North Vietnamese attacks in South Vietnam intensified, Johnson decided to run a continuous bombing campaign over North Vietnam aimed at destroying railroads, bridges, roads, and manufacturing plants. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The Maryland National Guard fought its way through striking railroad workers in Baltimore on July 20. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z At first everyone attributed their absence to a routine railroad delay, but as the hours passed, Burnham’s anxiety grew. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Within minutes of the shooting, policemen hustled Charles Guiteau from the railroad depot and dragged him two blocks to the police station. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Life is like a mountain railroad With an engineer that’s brave We must make the run successful From the cradle to the grave. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Then they lay for a while on their backs, gazing into the starry expanse through the railroad tracks, listening to the dark river below. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z And at twenty minutes after six in the morning, I wander past the railroad station on my way home from work. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Through Petersburg ran the railroads by which Lee’s army received its supplies; if Petersburg were taken, then the cry of “On to Richmond” would at last be fulfilled. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Hugo stuffed his pockets with little magic tricks and cards as he usually did, checked his railroad watch, and knocked on Isabelle’s door. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z And the very same day, a man loading finished bolts of cloth onto the railroad cars in the Lawrence mill yard had been run over and crushed. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z They would be weighed, measured, at the railroad station or at the dock, and this information would be compared with the descriptions of all other known runaways. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z She came running across the railroad ditch to the road and, like a wilted pot plant that just got watered, smiled up at me with the purest pleasure on her face. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Thirty-six hours later, Vaughan’s body was spotted lying by the railroad tracks, thirty miles north of Oklahoma City. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z A related chemical, pentachlorophenol, sometimes known as “penta,” is used as a weed killer as well as an insecticide, often being sprayed along railroad tracks and in waste areas. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The CIA chose a dead-drop site on a railroad bridge over the Moskva River, away from the city center, near a sports stadium. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “He’s working a railroad job back in Iowa. He says it’s not fit living for a girl my age, so I’m here for the summer.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z She never got Royal to tell her about the men and women who made the underground railroad. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z We climbed up the wide stone staircase and came through the vestibule into the long hallway where it was dark and cool, and narrow like the corridor of a railroad car. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Weaving through rush-hour traffic on Turtle's bike, Theo trailed the bus to a seamy downtown district across the railroad tracks where Crow and Otis got off. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z By the 1850s, the canal and the railroads were drawing a throng of new businesses to Chicago. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It was a few days before the Fourth of July, and a grey, scrawny Italian child was setting torpedoes in a row along the railroad track. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z We passed under the dark shadow of the gigantic railroad bridge. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He showed them where they should plant the bombs to blow up railroads, such as tunnels, bridges, switches, and brakes. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Their collaborations with the underground railroad complicated things. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Matthew was simply walking home when a van full of gangsters pulled him into their car, drove him down to the railroad tracks, beat him up and then shot him repeatedly in the head. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Even with the expanded railroad, the trip from London to Shrewsbury was a long one; it had to be made by train and carriage. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Cow paths had been transformed into paved thoroughfares, railroad tracks crisscrossed the valley floor, and electric lines snaked over the ridges and connected up to a vast switchyard hulking with transformers. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Apart from her own preparations, how would they alert the railroad in time? The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The work was backbreaking: digging out boulders, chopping down trees, dynamiting tunnels, and hammering in railroad ties. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The yellow bus rumbled through a tumbledown section of town, an industrial no-man’s-land of railroad tracks, warehouses, and empty factories with broken windows and rusted steel roofs. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z The Americans took the boys to a short stretch of railroad track, not far from the main camp, where fifty freight cars stood. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Tahlequah and the railroad lay on the other side of the river from our place. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s flat down where I parked, near the river—the old cellblock and the railroad tracks. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “So? That’s better than being cold and hungry all the time and dodging the railroad police.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z “Him and all them greedy conniving railroad men, making promises Montana can’t deliver.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “I got me a nice pension from the railroad. I was with them for forty-five years, you know. They gimme a beautiful gold pin w'hen I retired.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Just then we took a sharp turn over some railroad tracks, the door flew open, and I tumbled out of the car. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The waitress in the railroad car was too busy to ask too many questions. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z His arms were forged of steel, his backbone was the railroad, and in his veins was the coal that powered them both. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z He helped load and unload chemicals into railroad cars. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z |
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