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Example sentences for "railroaders"

Lexicographically close words:
raillery; railly; railroad; railroaded; railroader; railroading; railroads; railrud; rails; railway
  1. The railroaders didn't take any stock in the ball.

  2. It was a bottle of whisky, better stuff than the railroaders generally drank, for he knew the label.

  3. Moreover, he could not strike Charnock, because he was in the workmen's view, and the railroaders would not approve his attacking an apparently defenseless man.

  4. Dem railroaders was honest, and dey didn't take no presents, but de patrollers was low white trash!

  5. We didn't have no truck with railroaders 'cause we like our home.

  6. That the miners and railroaders have sufficient interests at stake to justify their entrance into such a combination no union man of heart will attempt to deny.

  7. Within two years the great and successful strikes of the transport workers, railroaders and miners had occurred, and the renaissance of the English labor movement was assured.

  8. Our railroaders are expert already in the efficient use of the somewhat antiquated tools which they already possess.

  9. There are railroaders, and shrewd railroaders too, who will not chime in rapidly.

  10. Indeed that efficient and economical idea had been in the heads of some of our practical railroaders for a good many years before the coming of the World War.

  11. Remember all the while that if they do not have them, and have them soon, it will not be the railroaders who will suffer primarily.

  12. It is no wonder that many of our railroaders now view with real apprehension any return of heavy traffic.

  13. For some years past, before the coming of the war, a certain proportion of our railroaders had been getting into something of a rut, to put it lightly.

  14. In the minds of a good many railroaders of the newer schools it seems to.

  15. It is not yet too late to do this last thing; it is a principle for which the railroaders should fight, into the last ditch.

  16. The railroaders who had clung superstitiously to their fetish had overlooked one big bet--the American public will pay for service.

  17. True it is that we have not yet raised master railroaders to take the places of James J.

  18. And the real success of the Federal military railroads in the Civil War was due to the fact that the government officers who operated them were expert railroaders borrowed for the nonce from civil life.

  19. Yet it is by no means certain that such master railroaders may not be in the making today on our great overland carriers.

  20. The railroaders of vision--and I have never believed that there was a really big railroader who lacked vision--today are thinking of them.

  21. But to my own mind, the value of such a military reserve corps among the railroaders will be comparatively slight if its membership be confined merely to railroad executives.

  22. The brigadiers general of this sturdy corps of railroaders are the engineers of the maintenance of way.

  23. Expert railroaders will tell you that save in the case of the larger and more prosperous roads, there has been, in the course of the past seven or eight years, a serious depreciation in the maintenance of the way and structure of the railroad.

  24. The railroaders down there will tell you that.

  25. The railroaders have grown very strict in the enforcement of the rule which forbids strangers in the engine cabs.

  26. Before the great wave of war prosperity came upon us, the railroaders were showing their pressing need of immediate relief in the form of rate increases and were making a very good case for their necessities.

  27. Scott became Assistant Secretary of War he called into his service the railroaders and telegraphers whom he knew would be serviceable and faithful to the government.

  28. There was about three hundred or four hundred railroaders there, so they said.

  29. If we could find ten railroaders to handle the cars, we would go into the depot grounds, and stop that fire and save the depot.

  30. The railroaders got water for him, and bathed him.

  31. Says I, "We want from ten to twenty railroaders to go to stop this firing before it reaches the depot.

  32. A great many railroaders were standing around, not doing anything.

  33. We then went to a meeting of railroaders in the hall, and at that meeting this citizens' committee and the mayor was present, and as I had not been appointed for that office, I took my place in the back part of the hall.

  34. The railroaders did not want the trains to run, that was about the extent that they wanted or demanded.

  35. I don't know who they were--whether railroaders or not.

  36. In that building, once new and splendid, but now old and grimy, George Meyers, the depot master, gathered a group of railroaders on a Sunday away back in 1870.

  37. Still, in the judgment of railroaders to-day, another Empire State would be a mistake, even though the original is, day in and day out probably one of the most popular and profitable express trains in the world.

  38. Of course, the railroaders have long since had their insurance, although the regular life companies look upon them with distrust as risks.

  39. When a freight car gets off the system to which it belongs it collects forfeits from the other lines over which it passes, if they do not expedite its passage; this the railroaders know as "per diem.

  40. That scheme of the depot master's seemed to be making a better grade of railroader in and around Cleveland, and any institution that bettered the type of railroaders interested the Vanderbilts.

  41. But they print the names of the railroaders who do the good things, the novel things, the practical things, the economical things, the heroic things, out along the line.

  42. Few railroaders in train service can leave their homes in the morning, "double their runs," and be home at night.

  43. That was the only recognition that he gave to one who since has become one of the master railroaders of America, but in that moment the act of succession had been consummated.

  44. Ninety-six per cent of this army of railroaders are engaged in the business of maintaining and operating the great avenues of transportation, an overwhelming proportion in the last phase of the business.

  45. There is a deep sink on the parade-ground of the Military Academy at West Point that is a monument to the nastiest railroad wreck from the point of view of time, that the Eastern railroaders have ever known.

  46. He belonged to a generation of railroaders that was not educated to vacations.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "railroaders" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.