Sentence examples for railroad speaking from inspiring English sources

"Emily truly has the mind of a historian, and the area she happened to pick is railroads," said Ted Bowen, customer service manager for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Metro-North Railroad, speaking unofficially (the railroad has no connection to the project).

The railroad employees spoke Yiddish.

We will have "the railroad people" speak.

"They forget polio and bomb shelters," said Tony Koester, a model railroader in Newton, N.J., speaking of fellow hobbyists.

Standing on a graveled railroad track, he speaks bluntly of the decline of the coal industry as images of Ravenna, Ky., flash across the screen.

A shareholder question about Burlington Northern's moves into transporting oil products provides an opening for the railroad chief to speak directly.

People called me 'chink.' At that time in San Francisco, there were very few Chinese here except for the railroad workers who spoke Cantonese and were from Canton, they were centered around Chinatown.

When speaking of the railroad to Tibet, the Chinese sound like the true inheritors of the old European zeal for science and industry, as assured as colonial officials of another era were of their superiority over apparently benighted natives.

He visited the railway yards and spoke to the railroad men.

Musk's vision of transcending time and space to connect those nodes appears, at first glance, remarkably similar to railroad hype in the nineteenth century, when some observers spoke of railroads just as fantastically as others are swooning over Hyperloop now.

Technologically speaking, it is difficult to find anything in railroading that has not changed in the last decade.