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Example sentences for "rolling stock"

  • In estimating present or depreciated values of structures, rolling stock, etc.

  • These men went to the general offices of the railroad companies and made a complete examination of maps, profiles, bridge and building records, records of motive power, rolling stock, etc.

  • It has one hundred and eighty-four miles of road, but no rolling stock.

  • Railways (Construction, Repair and Maintenance of Permanent Way, Plant, Rolling Stock, etc.

  • Rolling stock is, of course, subjected more directly to wear and tear in service than are bridges, cuts and fills and buildings.

  • Rolling stock, moreover, is susceptible to change of type and improvement.

  • The railroads of what ought to be food producing States are disorganized from lack of rolling stock, due to the same paralysis of German industry; and so the food production is diminished.

  • One of my strong contentions is that, on a small line, to avoid expense in rolling stock, every vehicle should be available for every purpose.

  • At Vienna there was such a deficiency of rolling stock--accelerated by great delays in the return of empties--that many of the troop trains for the South could not be made up until the last moment.

  • And the same is valid with regard to rolling stock belonging to private railway companies of a neutral State.

  • From a hasty glance at the station and railway lines, while we slip away to another level, I gather that many trains and much rolling stock are to be bagged.

  • Follows a short lull, during which I make another attempt to count the abnormal amount of rolling stock.

  • With arms free of the machine to avoid unnecessary vibration, the observers trained their glasses on the station and estimated the amount of rolling stock.

  • No alteration, however small, to a station building or to the design of rolling stock is permissible without the sanction of the Government representatives.

  • This was not difficult to pick up, for there were many flares burning to enable working parties to repair engines, rolling stock, and permanent way.

  • There was a shortage of rolling stock and, there being no coal for the engines, whole olive orchards had been hacked down to provide fuel.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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