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144 examples of Railroad in a sentence

There is a railroad museum in Jamestown and they used some of the old trains in the picture.
Story takes place in California in the 1890's and some Italian immigrants who own vineyards are told they have to leave their land so a railroad can come through.
Marco blows up the bridge that the railroad was going to need and they also destroy a tunnel and this sets back the project for several months and Berrigan now starts to get heat from other investors.
The conductor suffer from absurd incompetence, being unable to effectively employ a pistol he has come by.Anomalies: a hooded man bristleing with guns stalks through a railroad car, startling people.
I never thought I'd say this about a biopic, but there is a near over-abundance of characterization (especially concerning Kenji Miyazawa's emotions) and too little on the literal occurrences in his life--by the end, I'm not sure if he dies (he's supposed to), or if his sister finally dies (she's supposed to), or if the director spent a little too much time on the Galactic Railroad (that's an inside joke, in case you missed it--Miyazawa wrote a children's book called Night on the Galactic Railroad).
(Some Spoilers) Sweeping into New York City on a first-class railroad car a killer who doesn't kill with a gun or knife or club but just with his,or it's, touch and breath.
I didn't understand the outcome of the railroad fight at the end of the movie, and the last scene was pure Hollywood dreck.
It's an odd feeling when you realize the film title refers to a railroad rather than a piece of luggage!
They move to a cottage in the country, and here the children; Bobbie (Jenny Agutter, who I first saw in Child's Play 2), Phyllis (Sally Thomsett) and Peter (Gary Warren) keep their spirits up, with their fascination for the nearby railroad.
Gosh, how could they miss the gold madness, profligate wealth, gun battles in the silver mines, Mark Twain getting run out of town and beat up after a showdown, the crooked railroad, the Opera House fire, Artemis Ward, Bulette's huge funeral, the Chinese tongs, the black saloons, the Auction . .
Starring veteran western actor Jim Davis as railroad detective Matt Clark, the series set Clark and his fellow railroad detective partners (Mary Castle as Frankie Adams for the first half of the season and Kristine Miller as "Jonesy" during the second half)against historic western outlaws of various periods ranging from the mid-1860's to the early 1900's.
where john cross over the railroad cracks they have made 225 higher.
A railroad detective named Matt Clark, similar to the later Elliot Ness with the gangsters of the 1920's and 30's, managed to become involved with almost every notorious western outlaw between the middle of the 1800's and WWI.
Railroad Detective "Matt Clark" -- takes a role in tracking down famous outlaws from the Old West in stories that are at least partly based on the true accounts.
What they accomplished in the building of the railroad through such horrendous and challenging conditions was extraordinary.
It's hard to imagine railroad workers watching this short film without thinking that their company is trying to blame them for all the industrial accidents that occur.
This movie stars Grant Withers and Regis Toomey as best friends who work as railroad conductors and Toomey is married to Mary Astor.
UNION PACIFIC dealt with the transcontinental railroad (no really historic figure dominated the story here).
5) FBI agent has a choice, chase running really bad guy or help fellow agent stuck in truck on railroad tracks with train coming.
The point, because many seemed to have missed it, is that in order for the railroad to work, EVERYONE MUST GET INVOLVED.
Pretty innovative comedy, with great stuntwork by Keaton ( including knocking away the railroad tie with another ), and a good feeling all around.
Absolutely inane Martin and Lewis film where Dino is the doctor and Lewis, a railroad employee, supposedly comes into contact with a radioactive car.
Violet worked as a stage hand for a theatrical company that traveled by railroad all through the small towns of America.
Like all young men at the time, the film's main protagonist John Gray (Keaton), a railroad engineer tries to enlist in the army but is denied entry as he is deemed more valuable to the southern cause as an engineer.
This is set in a small railroad town, and follows the exploits of a preacher.
From a dance-hall to the railroad yards to a bridge under siege by flood.
Two sequences are especially effective, the young woman trapped in the locked cemetery, and the terrifying encounter of another girl with the escaped panther under a railroad bridge.
When the two girls are walking on the railroad where the tracks meet they are "at a crossroads."
What strikes me as shocking about 'Porky's Railroad' is its absolutely -- even brutally, I should say -- honest depiction of the soul of man under capitalism -- to paraphrase the title of that famous book by Oscar Wilde -- which I unfortunately have not read yet.
This is particular to accidents on the railroad.
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