Sentence examples for railroad construction from inspiring English sources

Or why not devote more of the stimulus to the military — another idea of Mr. Feldstein's — and other programs that spend money more quickly than, say, railroad construction?

Irish labourers arrived during the railroad construction boom in the 1860s.

Moreover, railroad construction in southern regions was beset with corruption in the issuance of contracts.

The son of a railroad construction worker, Mr. Brinson progressed rapidly in the money management business.

This was the boom period of railroad construction and the advent of the ocean-going steamship.

Considerable effort also was directed at improving Tibet's transportation infrastructure for example, through highway and railroad construction.

His father was a railroad-construction ganger & Butler was brought up in railroad camps.

Despite President Lincoln's decree that Council Bluffs, Iowa, be the starting point for the Union Pacific Railroad, construction began from Omaha on the eastern portion of the first transcontinental railroad.

With qualified subordinates in charge of the new civilian United States Military Railroad Construction Corps; trains operating on a routine schedule; and shipment of personal or commercial goods on military railroads officially prohibited, Haupt considered his commitment to Stanton fulfilled.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited Anthony Julian Railroad Construction for infractions found in December.

"You just can't scale it up overnight," said Chuck Baker, vice president and executive director of the National Railroad Construction and Maintenance Association.