Sentence examples for railroad playing from inspiring English sources

The fact is that collectors are not so much nutty as inexplicable; the man who lives to hunt down rare decks of Canadian railroad playing cards cannot explain why to someone to whom the cards are just, you know, cards.

Her father, a brakeman for the Tennessee Central Railroad, played guitar and sang folk songs after the fashion of Jimmie Rodgers.

In July, Zeppelin and a power trio with a Cream-inspired, but cruder sound, Grand Funk Railroad, played the Atlanta Pop Festival.

Railroads play a key role in the transportation of hazardous materials in North America.

Railroads play an important role in trade, with most international cargo traveling to international ports by rail.

Both railroads played an important part in California's growth, drawing immigrants and industry to the state for decades after being founded in the 19th Century.

Not since the early days of John D. Rockefeller's oil trust have railroads played such a central role in moving oil from wells to refineries.

We would remain on the sidelines for now with this railroad play.

The waiters became full-time ballplayers -- the first black players paid a regular salary, as much as $18 a week, not just a percentage of the gate -- and they toured the East in a private railroad car, playing, and mostly beating, teams at all levels, including white professional teams in Newark, Jersey City, Hartford and Bridgeport.

The famed abolitionist and humanitarian is such an iconic figure in American history, rescuing so many slaves with missions along with Underground Railroad, that playing her onstage even once would seem impossibly intimidating.

Encounters with intransigent officials in the Canton railroad station playing their favorite game of Let's Make a Regulation, and with a bored hotel clerk determined to charge him the five yuan entrance fee for a dancing party when he wants only a cup of coffee, suggest the pettiness of life in Chinese society.