Sentence examples for block railroad from inspiring English sources

In 1967 former New York City Rockette and ballet dancer Marta Becket rolled into the decrepit one block railroad town of Death Valley Junction with a flat tire and fell in love with the town's abandoned community hall.

High school and university students at a national coordination meeting in the northern French town of Villeneuve-d'Ascq called on supporters to block railroads and highways on Thursday.

A group of 200 protesters blocked railroad tracks on May 14, demanding meetings with the mine's top leadership.

On Saturday, several hundred protesters blocked railroad tracks in Shetpe, a town north of Zhanaozen, to protest the treatment of the other activists.

Then on Saturday, the violence spread to the nearby city of Shetpe, where the police opened fire after several hundred protesters blocked railroad tracks.

With barbed wire blocking railroad tracks here, most tourists on the "Security Tourism Train" see this brand new station as the end of the line.

MOSCOW — Protesters blocked railroad tracks at the site of a western Siberian mine disaster on Friday night, demanding to meet with the management of the Raspadskaya Coal Company and complaining that low salaries and financial incentives were pressuring miners to cut corners on safety.

On 8 September hundreds of ILWU members stormed the terminal, a day after blocking railroads so grain could not reach Longview.

Its old home was on the upper level, inside the gate at Track 19 - "above the block," in railroad lingo.

The guerrillas blocked the railroad, forcing the train to stop.

On Tuesday, several hundred people blocked a federal highway for six hours; the next step, they said, was blocking the railroad, or a hunger strike.