Sentence examples for oncoming trains from inspiring English sources

Ghaith strained to listen for police, bandits, or oncoming trains.

Union officials said there was no flagger, a man assigned to look out for oncoming trains.

Through its use, widely separated elements of mechanized track-maintenance gangs can maintain contact with each other and with oncoming trains.

As an engineer on a small railroad in rural Connecticut, I almost daily see drivers go through crossings ahead of oncoming trains.

Instead, the report said, he allowed the two men to continue and told them he would act as a flagman and watch for oncoming trains.

The report said that Mr. London told Mr. Franklin and Mr. Hill that he would watch for oncoming trains on the G tracks.

-- for you to brave the rats, the third rail and the suddenly oncoming train?

When the movies started, they had the power of gods: the Lumières' oncoming train, we're told, had audiences scrambling in fear of their lives.

Video: Deputy pulls driver out of way of oncoming train.

In the early days of August 1856, a girl by the name of McGraff was injured by an oncoming train near the station after carelessly walking onto the tracks.

All it needed to be complete was a screaming woman tied to a railroad track with an oncoming train bearing down upon her.