Sentence examples for railroad might from inspiring English sources

Change "Nigger Hollow" to "Freedom Road" and the Underground Railroad might as well be Amtrak.

The report also suggests that the railroad might even have better used the $144 million to reduce its own debt.

Farther out on the Port Washington line, Ms. O'Gorman suggested, the railroad might encounter even more resistance.

Several Amtrak supporters in Congress said his willingness to rethink the railroad might make Congressional assistance easier to pass, after the Fourth of July recess.

If the shipment is a backhaul, the railroad might have been planning to move empty cars anyway, and the variable costs of moving the shipper's freight might be only the costs of moving loaded, rather than empty, cars.

However, nei ther the Coast Guard nor the po lice could rule out the possibil ity that someone not employed by the railroad might have been drowned aboard the train.

With their lobbyists in overdrive, the railroads might have persuaded lawmakers to delay the mandate.

James J. Valentine, an analyst with Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, said the railroads might be forced to rethink the merger terms.

Despite their exotic nature, the camels did prove useful and, even with the coming of the railroads, might have served a supporting role in the settlement of the American West.

It was not a mere bounty for the benefit of the railroads that might accept its provisions, but was legislation intended to promote the interests of the government in opening to settlement and in enhancing the value of those public lands through or near which such railroads might be constructed.

The Henderson case largely rested on Mitchell v. United States, supra, which pointed out that while the railroads might not be reguired by law to furnish dining car facilities, yet if they did, substantial equality of treatment of persons traveling under like conditions could not be refused consistently with § 3(1).