Sentence examples for railroader from inspiring English sources

I am a pensioned railroader.

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

But Mr. Harper says that the Peary family papers and the museum's archives reveal that Peary grew rich selling artifacts to support his expeditions, passing the sales off as donations with the complicity of the museum's president, Morris K. Jesup, a wealthy railroader and banker.

He was an avid railroader, photographer, marathoner, bicycler, kayaker, sailor, and joketeller.

He says that "being a railroader takes over your life".

"You can't just walk off the street and become a railroader," said Bonnie Huneke, Union Pacific's general director of disability prevention and management.

Had the bosses realized that they were in the transportation business, rather than the railroad business, they could have moved into trucking and air transport, rather than letting other companies dominate.

Myers said there are also plans to repurpose a few of the life-sized figures for a new exhibit on the Underground Railroad, a clandestine pre-war network that transported slaves from the South to freedom in Canada.

And yet Labour would argue that any such plan has already been railroaded by the threat of Ukip and the rising influence of rightwing backbenchers.

Born a slave in Maryland, she fled the brutality of the fields in 1849 before finding finding fame as a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad, helping her family - and hundreds of other slaves - to freedom in the North.

The GAA's democratic structures were a big help – the conservatives had their say and were never allowed to claim they had been railroaded.