To take one-half that load over the old main line required a pusher.
I have not attempted to advance my main line to-day, and do not think I am strong enough to do so.
It was in that uncertain hour that the elaborate but ill-fated West Shore was being builded through from New York to Buffalo--a route ten miles shorter than the main line of the New York Central.
Now Parsons had a real railroad indeed; more than six hundred miles of line--the Utica road had brought him 180 miles of main line track.
There remains to be considered another type of British electric railway which points the way to the extension of the new mode of traction to main line railways.
If a sortie had been made at any time by the Mexicans, the men serving the batteries could have been quickly reinforced without great exposure to the fire from the enemy's main line.
General Parke succeeded in carrying the enemy's main line, capturing guns and prisoners, but was unable to carry his inner line.
Our troops followed and made an attack in the hope of carrying the enemy's main line; but in this they were unsuccessful and lost a large number of men, mostly captured.
It is served by two railroads, one a main line of an important Canadian property and the other the main line of a small and fairly local railroad.
The rebels yielded ground stubbornly, but were forced back into their main line of defence,--a formidable work constructed of cotton bales.
In this way about ten miles of this railroad were destroyed by the division in two days, rendering a main line of transportation useless and seriously crippling the rebel communications.
The enemy was found to be strongly intrenched; but the attack forced him out of a line of skirmish pits, which were captured by our division, and the troops pushed closely up to the enemy's main line.
Around Globo ridge a bersaglieri brigade, outnumbered five to one, held back the enemy while the main line had an opportunity to get its retreat in motion.
We had cut the enemy's main line of communications and nothing but surrender or an armistice could save his army from complete disaster.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "main line" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
