Sentence examples for a network of railroads from inspiring English sources

Its location at the nexus of a network of railroads, canals, and turnpikes made it a natural center of commerce in the eighteen-forties, and eventually the most industrialized city in America.

As a Whig member of the Illinois State Legislature, to which he was elected four times from 1834 to 1840, Lincoln devoted himself to a grandiose project for constructing with state funds a network of railroads, highways, and canals.

In light of the rapid slowdown in China's industrial sector, Beijing is trying to speed up efforts to roll out this plan, which aims to create a network of railroads, highways, pipelines, and port facilities stretching from Europe and Central Asia to Africa, the subcontinent and south-east Asia.

Spreading out alongside the mighty "Tobacco Trust," a network of railroads linked the state to the rest of the nation.

In 1812 he published a prophetic description of a United States connected by a network of railroad lines with transportation by steam locomotives, long before any such potential could be realized: "The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines, from one city to another, almost as fast as birds fly, fifteen or twenty miles in an hour".

Later, a dense network of railroads furthered the region's industry and commerce.

Albuquerque is New Mexico's largest city and its economic capital, however, and it is served by an extensive network of railroads, airlines, and highways.

The villain of "The Swimmers" is a rich, vulgar banker who preaches an updated version of the gilded age's "gospel of wealth": "Money is power … Money made this country, built its great and glorious cities, created its industries, covered it with an iron network of railroads".

The state's central location gave it an dense network of railroads.

Although products such as lumber were often transported on an existing network of railroads in Oregon, these advances in navigation helped businesses deliver more goods to Portland, feeding the city's growing economy.

Its 1900 asset sheet listed 17 blast furnaces, 3256 beehive coke ovens, 120 Solvay coke ovens, 15 red ore mines, as well an extensive network of railroads, although following the panic of 1893 the company shifted its primary interests from railroads to steel.