Sentence examples for back of a train from inspiring English sources
Tom Waits said money is something you throw off the back of a train.
The corporation recently acquired Mr. Cullen's most cherished local property: the 4.5-acre plot where Cattaraugus was founded (the same spot where, not coincidentally, the campaigning Teddy Roosevelt addressed townsfolk from the back of a train).
Nevertheless, while the Tour has never officially recognised or awarded any prize to the lanterne rouge – named after the red light fixed to the back of a train – historically there has been money to be made.
He recalled that she pulled out photographs of Theodore Roosevelt speaking to residents from the back of a train in her effort have the Oyster Bay railroad station landmarked.
They include assemblages made from bent and dirty railroad signs or green and white highway signs; the torn-off back of a train car with a stainless steel bedpan inserted into a rectangular opening near the middle; and a soaring arrangement of torn and battered parts of a billboard-size sign with big red letters and dollar signs on a yellow ground.
The last rider in the standings earns the title of the Lanterne Rouge, or Red Lantern, a moniker that comes from the red lantern at the back of a train's caboose.
(The test kitchen at the plant is, naturally, a microwave nestled in the back of a training room).
"That was on the back of a string of training sessions that had been up and down, which is very unlike me.
A fast-moving passenger train slammed into the back of a goods train on the same track on Sunday night, Frédéric Sacré, a spokesman for Belgian railway infrastructure manager Infrabel, said.
CHICAGO, Nov. 30 — An Amtrak train slammed into the back of a freight train on the city's South Side on Friday, sending about 70 people to the hospital, 8 with serious or critical injuries, the authorities said.
Questions about the materials used during the construction and whether the projects were properly engineered have been the subject of national debate ever since a high-speed train plowed into the back of a stopped train on the same track on July 23 last year in the eastern city of Wenzhou.
