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Or that person is standing at a railroad platform about to board a train that will cross rivers and mountains out of the Jim Crow South to what they hope will be freedom in the North.
They would arrest people from the railroad platforms.
And it became known as "Death Avenue" because so many people were run over by the trains that the railroad hired a guy on horseback to run in front, and he became known as the "West Side Cowboy."
And that starts to be delivered in the form of the railroad suburb: the country villa along the railroad line, which allows people to enjoy the amenity of the city, but to return to the countryside every night.
It turns out Microsoft is not the only company whose body is lying across the railroad tracks today.
A lot of linden trees live along the railroad tracks.
And the best, earliest quote that I could find was one from David Livingstone, writing in the 1850s about how the railroad, the steam ship, and the telegraph were integrating East Africa perfectly with the rest of the world.
"While you are walking through a tunnel under a railroad track, you smell urine.
So they went to the police and they said, "We know that at the Rome railroad station, there are all these lost souls wandering around, muttering gibberish.
The Underground Railroad was a brilliant hack.
She had heard of an “underground railroad," a secret network of safe houses, boat captains, and wagon drivers willing to harbor fugitive enslaved people on their way north.
There she told the audience: “I was a conductor on the Underground Railroad, and I can say what many others cannot.
And even if you don't know East Palo Alto, you might know the story of eastside disparity, whether it's the separation of the railroad tracks in East Pittsburgh or the Grosse Pointe Gate in East Detroit or East St. Louis, East Oakland, East Philly.
Now, Davidson is a little-bitty town, Southern town, split by railroad tracks, with white Davidson on one side, black Davidson on the other side, and, as black students lived on the white side of the tracks, we got used to being stopped in downtown and asked for ID, until the police memorized our faces.
There's a railroad track.
Burnham had designed a railroad station that was never built, and so we followed.
What are the odds that the experts, your chemical engineer, your railroad transportation engineers, have been trained on whatever UAV that particular county happens to have?
The railroad worm, Phrixothrix hirtus, can light up its body in two colors: red and green.
I went back to grad school in architecture and city planning, developed this interest in infrastructure, and in 1999 came up with an idea for my thesis project: the adaptation of an obsolete loop of old railroad circling downtown as a new infrastructure for urban revitalization.
We did the transcontinental railroad, the Marshall Plan.
We expect to hear stories like this one: "Girl raped near the Mitre Railroad tracks.
We stood on the railroad tracks that ran between my friend's house and the beach.
In about two minutes, it had reached the level of the railroad tracks and was coming over it.
The slum built on the railroad reservation between the sea and the railroad tracks was completely swept away.
It's nowhere near any Interstate or railroad.
If every commercially minded cosmetic surgeon were tied end to end along a railroad track, that would be me, stoking the train without a qualm in the world.
There was an underground railroad of sorts that was going on during those years.
I mean, look at the time it took to cross a continent in a Conestoga wagon, then on a railroad, then an airplane.
Thankfully brief mystery about a telephone operator who is discovered to be the kidnapped daughter of a railroad tycoon.
She meets Gary Cooper, who is likewise seeking revenge against the railroad tycoons who cheated his father out of his land in Texas.
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