Sentence examples for railroad scheme from inspiring English sources

The K4s 1361 was removed from the curve for a restoration to working order in September 1985 and was replaced with the ex-Conrail EMD GP9 diesel-electric locomotive 7048 that was repainted into a Pennsylvania Railroad scheme.

His victory over the Erie Railroad scheme (and market cornering activities in general) inspired similar plots in the years thereafter; in 1863 the industrialist Cornelius Vanderbilt successfully cornered the Harlem Railroad in much the same way that Little had done almost thirty years earlier, and fell into a corner trap formed by Daniel Drew and others himself in the later Erie War.

Last Monday the local radio station Big FM had appealed for a suitable site for the sign; on Tuesday the mayor Wolfgang Amann announced his intention to railroad the scheme through despite some opposition from councillors; on Wednesday the motion was carried.

Soon afterwards Mr Daschle was subtly accusing Republicans of railroading their schemes through the Senate.

It's full of exciting set pieces and genre staples – runaway trains, bridges blown up, Monument Valley, psychopathic cannibal-villain, scheming railroad magnate – and it's tolerably witty, even if you do find the whole idea of Tonto the Uncle Tom redskin a tad retrograde (because, hey, genocide means never having to say you're sorry).

Following a toast to the King and to Huskisson's recovery, steamship pioneer Francis B. Ogden, at the time the American Consul in Liverpool, gave a speech about the planned Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and of forthcoming schemes to connect New Orleans with the Great Lakes by rail.

This was not the first illicit scheme at the railroad.

The central figure, an arriviste financier, creates a pyramid scheme in which railroads of the New World figure prominently.

Privacy group Big Brother Watch said people had been "railroaded into a mass ID scheme by the back door".

Locomotives of both railroads were given a unified paint scheme (see below) and interchanges were streamlined between the two railroads.

Upon returning home, they find that the railroad tycoon Thaddeus Rains Harris Yulinn) is behind a scheme to run them off their farms.