Sentence examples for railroad around from inspiring English sources

The arrival of the railroad around the same time spurred the construction of brownstone row houses, many of them grand residences of the wealthy owners of the breweries and piano factories that dotted the Upper East Side.

Word of the planned underground railroad got around quickly, and some fifty other students — Americans, Dutch, British, and Scandinavians among them — joined up.

After several years serving as a switching engine (a locomotive used for moving railroad cars around within a railroad yard; also known as a shunter) and stationary boiler, the John Bull was retired in 1866 and stored in Bordentown, New Jersey.

Its on-time performance statistics are the envy of railroads around the country.

While railroads around the country re-evaluated how many hours they should let engineers work, the real problem was in medical screening procedures.

It built more than six thousand steam locomotives for railroads around the world.

When we were founded there were about 200 some known railroads around the country.

Barring that, you could keep listening for onboard announcements and checking the Web, on the off chance that the railroad will get around to doing something helpful.

After an hour by Greyhound I reached the Florence railroad station around seven, completely done in, and waited for a train there until half past ten.

The suspects, a 13- and a 16-year-old boy, were found walking on the railroad tracks around the corner from where the shooting happened.

— Hundreds stood in the rain next to the railroad tracks, around a shrine made of flowers, balloons and a mural of the man who had been killed there.