On a sidetrack near where our train stands, Mr. McMaster shows us the largest locomotive on the Northern Pacific Railway, No.
At Malta, five miles from Leadville, we lay on a sidetrack ten minutes waiting for a train we meet at this point.
On the east end of the same sidetrack where our train lies are a number of cabooses of the Texas and Pacific construction train, occupied by Mexican families whose husbands and fathers are working on the repairs at the washout.
A train of freight cars is standing on a sidetrack a short distance away, loaded with ore, and the “boys” are told to help themselves.
I found this out when I ran to the sidetrack for a piece of “ballast.
The prestidigitator does his tricks in order to sidetrack our attention, but he succeeds in making us believe that we see or do not see whatever he wishes.
On the other hand I should not have the means to stop the physiological after-effects of that real experience: I had to sidetrack it and to secure thus a reduction.
For a while the new station was merely a sidetrack on the level prairie, a convenience for the men of Clarence, but before Clarence knew how it had happened Kilo was a flourishing town, and the older town on the hill had begun to decay.
Even while Clarence was still sneering at Kilo as a sidetrack village, Kilo had begun to sneer at Clarence as a played-out crossroads settlement.
In short, to overcome a distraction, you either sidetrack it or else couple it to your main task.
Here on a sidetrack we found small coal-burning engines ready to help us over, small driving wheels but capable of great power.
Morning found us on a sidetrack in Nashville, which we reached 4 A.
He'll be coming around to offer to sidetrackthat legislation if you'll let him build his railroad.
I'll give you a sidetrack into your yards pervidin' you pay the cost of bridgin' and layin' the track, me to furnish ties and rails.
While at thissidetrack we took a stroll over the hills one day and found a sage hen's nest with the old hen setting.
One day while waiting on a sidetrackold Chuckwagon got to telling about the new school-marm in their neighborhood.
It seems to be one of the rules of railroading to never pass a sidetrack with a stock train till they find out whether that particular train will fit that sidetrack.
Now we know how the brave-hearted Jake with the stock train had to stay, How he camped by her side night times as on a sidetrackshe lay.
He said that we would have plenty of time, as there was a lonely sidetrack just ahead of the train.
One dark, rainy evening while we were waiting on a sidetrack the boys insisted I should tell them some adventure of mine.
A stock train was waiting on a sidetrack one day For gravel trains going some other way; And as they waited the cattle grew old, The stockmen grew haggard, the weather turned cold.
Illustration: Book Cover] Cowboy Life on The Sidetrack Being an Extremely Humorous and Sarcastic Story of the Trials and Tribulations Endured by a Party of Stockmen Making a Shipment from the West to the East.
The syndicalists are, of course, quite right when they say that State socialism is an attempt to allay popular discontent, but they are quite wrong when they accept this as proof that it must inevitably sidetrack socialism.
