Sentence examples for small railroads from inspiring English sources

However, it continued to be used commercially and, together with small railroads, was part of a regional transportation system.

It was built up from about 125 small railroads, the earliest of which began operation in 1834 as the Hartford and New Haven Railroad.

Under the deal, Canadian National will acquire two small railroads from Great Lakes, which is controlled by the Blackstone Group, a private investment firm.

Founded in 1853, it was a consolidation of 10 small railroads that paralleled the Erie Canal between Albany and Buffalo; the earliest was the Mohawk and Hudson, New York state's first railway, which opened in 1831.

On his death in 1919, The New York Times said he was "often spoken of as 'the father of the skyscraper.'" The namesake of the building, Austin Corbin, had united a tangle of small railroads on Long Island into the colossus of the Long Island Rail Road.

Most of the 500 small railroads in the U.S. are tiny, may not even have a regular schedule and would have a hard time raising capital to expand.

Nobody at the small railroad station.

So she and her friend moved to a small railroad apartment with no bathroom sink.

Even the park's small railroad stops running because the trains slide when the tracks are wet, he said.

Her father had followed work to Red Cloud, a small railroad town "anchored on a windy Nebraskan tableland".

Today, the barges are operated by New York New Jersey Rail, a small railroad owned by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, using a smaller, city-owned rail yard nearby.