Sentence examples for rapid railroad from inspiring English sources

Suppose Congress hadn't made the massive land grants that subsidized rapid railroad expansion.

Why can't we build railroads -- rapid railroads to unite this country instead of making the vast continent between New York and LA "fly-over country" for the bi-coastal elite to look down on?

The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, later known as the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit (BMT), opened in 1915, followed by the Independent City Owned Rapid Transit Railroad (IND) in 1932.

Later, when the Brooklyn-Manhattan thensit Corporation (BMT) and the city-owned Independent Rapid Transit Railroad (IND) lines (the lettered lines) were built, their sponsors determined that they needed larger cars for more capacity, said Charles Seaton, a spokesman for New York City Transit.

And in Cornwall Bridge, Greek Revival homes with thick pilasters are squeezed between river rapids and railroad tracks.

The Ford Freeway jogs slightly to the northeast as it crosses a line of the Grand Rapids Eastern Railroad between College and Eastern avenues.

Third-rail supply is employed only by urban rapid-transit railroads operating on low-voltage direct current.

Beginning in the 1840s, the rapid development of railroads brought the construction of lightweight Trésaguet-McAdam roads to a virtual halt.

It was created in 1874 through the incorporation of the towns of Buffalo and Alexander and the Geneva train station (on the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad) and presumably was named for the Swiss city.

This paper presents a review of recent work concerned with understanding and controlling the noise from railroad and rapid transit elevated structures.

Genesee and Wyoming plans to call its new railroad the Rapid City, Pierre and Eastern Railroad.