On Monday morning the Wall Street stock-quotations of the trans-continental railroads fell to the lowest possible figure, rendering the shares about as valuable as the paper upon which they were printed.
Only in the south and in the extreme north did railroads in any respectable number lead up to the Japanese front.
Railroads are not generally considered picturesque, but from the standpoint of that hennery, and from several other standpoints, I had no fault to find.
Price's forces had torn up all the railroads as they passed over them, cutting off all supplies, and the soldiers and prisoners had been placed on quarter rations.
The ownership of these railroads, however, remained with the private companies, which were to receive compensation for the use of their property, and were to receive back the railroads after the war was over.
The management of this great transportation system was intrusted to a Railroad Administration with a Director General of Railroads at its head.
On the other hand, there were certain decided advantages in the management of all railroads as one great system.
If we look closely at map 3, we shall see how highways and railroads center at Madison, which is the county seat of Dane County and the capital of the state of Wisconsin.
Investigate and report on: The service of the railroads to the farmers of your county.
There are those who believe that the railroads should be managed, or even owned, by the government in time of peace as well as during war.
But the farmer could not supply food to the nation without machinery for its production, and without city markets and railroads and ships for its distribution.
During the war with Germany the United States government assumed control of all the railroads of the country.
The direction of the continental railway system thus organized was placed by the railroads in the hands of the executive committee of the Special Committee on National Defense of the American Railway Association.
The French are necessarily supreme, and we simply have the right to run over their railroads subject to their rules.
The railroads were accordingly asked to discontinue their employment in both these positions.
They also indicate, so far as one month's operating results may be used to generalize from, that the railroads are now on a self-supporting basis, if they are not actually returning a profit to the government on current operation.
The railroads themselves have received the announcement of the President's action with much greater equanimity than could have been expected.
Hines He succeeded William McAdoo as Director-General of Railroads after the signing of the armistice.
We are in the same position toward these railroads as the French Government.
In the case of railroads the emphasis was, as has been seen, on the task of utilizing an existing and limited plant to its utmost capacity for war purposes.
Not counting subsidiary divisions there are 27 railroads entering Chicago, which is the western terminus of the great New York Central System.
The freight traffic of the New York Central Lines in 1920 was greater than that carried by all the railroads of France and England combined.
The best of all the railroads in the city is on California street, between Kearney and Fillmore streets, a distance of two miles.
We cannot trade with them because they are too far away for us to buildrailroads to their land, and the sea is so full of ice that ships cannot get through it Perhaps the aeroplane will let us see more of the Eskimo.
On the 22d, General Wilson, with his own division of cavalry of the Army of the Potomac, and General Kautz's division of cavalry of the Army of the James moved against the enemy's railroads south of Richmond.
The gauge of the North Carolina railroads being the same as the Virginia railroads had been altered too; these cars and locomotives were ready for use there without any change.
You will now suffer incalculable injury upon your railroads if Hood is not speedily disposed of.
Negroes had joined his column to the number of two thousand or more, and they assisted considerably in the work of destroying the railroads and the canal.
The railroadsand canal should be destroyed beyond possibility of repairs for weeks.
Both New Bern and Wilmington are connected with Raleigh by railroads which unite at Goldsboro.
Railroads traverse it in every direction, north, south, east, and west.
Four days, also, were lost in making complete the destruction of the most important railroads south of Columbia; there was also some delay caused by the high water, and the destruction of the bridges on the line of the road.
Beauregard, with a large portion of his force, was left south by the cutting of the railroads by Kautz.
As the last link in the chain of railroads from Albany to Buffalo was completed early in 1843, there was then, or soon after, continuous mail transportation by railroad from Boston, through Worcester, Springfield and Albany to Buffalo.
When the importance of building railroads in Alaska became apparent the old, old serpent, the cobra of civilization, raised its head and spread its hood.
Railroads which can not touch the interior are limited as to their usefulness.
The President was directed to "locate, build, or purchase and operate" a system of railroads at a cost not to exceed thirty-five million dollars.
The control of roads is in a third, of fisheries in a fourth, of railroads in a fifth!
With a mere handful of adventurous spirits, with no railroadsto speak of, Alaska has already shown what she can do.
After reaching the land of railroads and steamboats, he was but a few days in bringing the latter part of his journey to an end.
The first work of the Army of Occupation was to make the railroads available.
In Natal over 500 miles of railroads have been constructed.
Many of these hills were still shifting sand, and in places lofty fences had been erected as a protection against sand-drifts; just as our railroads East sometimes build fences, as a protection against snow-drifts.
The rebellion, sealing up her railroads and extinguishing her down-river trade, had given her a bad set back.
Our soldiers were assaulted, bridges were burned, and railroads torn up within her limits, and we were many days at one time without the ability to bring a single regiment over her soil to the capital.
Talk to him about building railroads and he tells you China ought to have railroads but she cannot build them because she cannot get the material.
Railroads crossing Ohio were required to run on Columbus time.
I hope he gets that prize the railroads are offering.
And really they were a fine lot; possibly ere this some of you have admired them as displayed in the recent folders of the enterprisingrailroads of the State of Maine.
Lumber must still be cut, streams must still be dammed, railroads must still be built; but now that the pioneers, the men of fire, had blazed the way others could follow.
The Government gives alternate sections of land to railroads to bring them in the country," went on California John.
Cheap excursion tickets on the railroads and river boats were to be had throughout the summer, while correspondents for foreign newspapers were given first-class passes for three months in every rod of railroad trackage in the country.
His schools, railroads and agricultural experiments were all indicative of his constructive ability.
A thirty days' sentence to jail, toward the close of the eight months' trip, hurt and tantalized me more than any of the wrecks on railroadsor disputes with bullies.
The thing I had in mind to do, and have tried to do, was to clear the property intrusted to my hands of that riffraff population which has been infesting American railroads for so many years.
Locomotives andrailroads of certain sorts and fashions were already in existence, but they were rough and clumsy affairs.
It came but a few years after the organization of the Federal Government, when the greater portion of the territorial extent of the country was a wilderness, and preceded the general use of railroads by a quarter of a century.
Thus far all railroads had been short, leading from mines to piers for shipping by water.
Great railroads of to-day follow the line it took those starving and half-frozen men fifty days to pass in that winter of 1854.
It should be stated thus: "Resolved, That all railroads in the United States should be owned and operated by the Federal government.
The question about government ownership of railroads should be so worded that the affirmative side will advocate the new system, and the negative will uphold the old.
An argument on government ownership of railroads would have to answer the question, "Under which system will fewer accidents occur?
For similar reasons, the proposition, "The Federal government should own and operate the railroads in the United States," cannot be condemned on the ground that it is a proposition with more than one main issue.
The building of railroads in this country had fairly begun when Elias Hicks passed away in 1830.
The objection torailroads is one of those unaccountable but interesting contradictions which appear in the lives of some progressive men.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "railroads" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
