Sentence examples for lay track from inspiring English sources

"She was pregnant out there in the middle of the fields, with boots and flannel, teaching contractors how to lay track," he said.

Vengeful Apaches keep travellers awake at night, and Chinese coolies, working for the Southern Pacific Railroad, lay track across the mountains.

We rode through canyons of moss-covered rock left by railroad workers blasting through boulders to lay track in the mid-1800's.

With the development of the railroads, for example, companies like the New York Central and the Union Pacific needed to raise tens of millions of dollars from outside investors to lay track and buy rolling stock.

Then city transportation officials gave permission to Mr. Diamond's group to lay track on Conover Street, the hope being that a trolley would one day lead to a bus stop a half-mile away.

Brian Taylor, a transport expert at the University of California, Los Angeles, worries that the "coolness factor" of high-speed rail can tempt planners to look for a place to lay track, rather than for problems that fast trains might solve.

For example Hitachi makes trains but does not lay tracks, which MHI does.

On its southern flank China is renewing a push to lay tracks to mainland South-East Asia. South-East Asia

But South Korean officials now plan to help North Korea remove land mines and lay tracks across the Demilitarized Zone this summer.

The Chinese are looking for reassurances from Thailand's government that it will do its bit, so that China does not lay tracks to Vientiane in vain.

The sick men were admitted to the post hospital, which was already crowded with soldiers and civilian laborers hired to lay tracks for the Union Pacific Railroad.