Hundreds of miles of rusty rails have been replaced.
The rusty rails curved into the green forest, beckoning us to travel deep into the wild North Woods.
In Dumbo in Brooklyn, old rusty rails show through the asphalt and cobblestones, and lead improbably into long-closed steel doors of converted warehouses.
Some ancient rolling stock, squatting on rusty rails above the Torridge estuary, was converted into a tearoom a few years back, and June Berry, a volunteer who runs it largely for the benefit of cyclists, was ruminating over a bacon sarnie.
I had envisioned teatime, frothy orange liquid sloshing in my cup as rusty train rails rocked me gently beneath a setting sun.
Peter Jost to investigate this subject; the 1966 "Jost Report" found that poorly lubricated surfaces sticky ball bearings, rusty train rails, and the like cost Britain 1.4 per cent of its G.D.P. (The term "tribology," coined by Jost, comes from the Greek verb "to rub"). The smooth functioning of the world depends on invisible tribological improvements.
Peter Jost to investigate this subject; the 1966 "Jost Report" found that poorly lubricated surfaces — sticky ball bearings, rusty train rails, and the like — cost Britain 1.4 per cent of its G.D.P. (The term "tribology," coined by Jost, comes from the Greek verb "to rub").
A green-eyed charmer named Lafcadio perches on a window seat in an apartment at 10th Avenue and 17th Street with the pre-gentrified High Line in the background, the rusty old rail structure looming above a sea of weeds and wildflowers.
And those rail floats, rusty and simple but as necessary to winning the war as a fighter plane, came from Brooklyn.
They love to embarrass me by telling my friends about how, when I was 6, I would build my own balance beam in the backyard of our house in suburban Sydney, placing an old fence rail between two rusty garden chairs.
