Here on a siding we lay all day, grilled in the heat and pestered by swarms of the buzzing scavenger vermin, while troop trains without number passed us, hurrying along the sentry-guarded railway to the lower frontiers of Belgium.
Presumably these sorry crow-baits, which drooped and limped about the barren railroad yards at the back of the siding where the shell loaders squatted, had been whole-skinned and sound of wind and joint in early August.
They slowly returned towards the railway siding when in the distance they saw the train standing still.
As they drew near to the siding they heard the soldiers singing lustily: "It's a long way to Tipperary.
I'd like to have you find out if the Ledyard Salt and Lumber Company can have those cars that are on the siding at Victory.
I hadn't got to Ledyard before I saw a string of empties on a sidingthat weren't doing a thing but waiting for our cribbing, so I caught a train to Blake City and gave the Division Superintendent some points on running railroads.
There's a big string of empties--I counted fourteen--on the siding at Victory.
The Sculptor's Funeral A group of the townspeople stood on the station siding of a little Kansas town, awaiting the coming of the night train, which was already twenty minutes overdue.
When the hearse backed up to a wooden sidewalk before a naked, weather-beaten frame house, the same composite, ill-defined group that had stood upon the station siding was huddled about the gate.
In a moment the red glare from the headlight streamed up the snow-covered track before the siding and glittered on the wet, black rails.
Had he left it alone, the special would have passed into the siding and there been stopped.
In a sort of dazed condition, he sprang from the freight car on which he was standing and ran to the lever of the siding switch, which he hastened to throw.
The need of a siding to permit the passage of trains at this point had not been felt, simply because the employé in charge there had used the branch or other main track as a siding.
But she gave up the driver's place to Tom before they reached the timber siding east of Cliff City.
He was much more disturbed by the possible injury to Tom Swift's invention by this collision with the bumper at the end of the timber siding than he had been by his own danger at the time of the accident.
Not a mile outside of Cliff City, and on this eastbound side of the right of way, was a long siding and a shipping point for timber.
They went over the crest of the hill and lost sight of the siding and the locomotive.
The freight was coming along at top speed and the switch into the siding was still open.
They had moved hastily back from the siding so as to be clear of the wreckage.
There was not a jar as the train moved off the siding and over the switches to the main line.
Friday night and leave it on the siding at Bridgeboro.
The rest of the troop went home and they said they'd all be down at the siding near the Bridgeboro Station early in the morning.
Then the train backed down the siding and very gently bunked into the Brewster's Centre car.
He told us that the engineer was going to push us as far as Flimdunk Siding and leave us there and that another train would pick us up the next day.
A fearful wind blowing off the lake had dislodged a recreant box-car from the facing-point siding there at Carlyon and had sent it trundling down toward the oncoming express.
Yet despite the fact that his works in Watertown never had a railroad siding Woodruff later attained quite a fame as a builder of sleeping-cars.
The siding was on the outside of a curve and within a hundred yards of the river bank.
No Place for a Woman He had a selection on a long box-scrub siding of the ridges, about half a mile back and up from the coach road.
Of course, whoever manipulated her sent her off on a siding among the mountains on a down grade.
Ralph crossed over a stretch of bleak prairie, leaped a drainage ditch, and started down a siding that was used as a repair track.
Here they took a siding and left the dummy, to walk to the spot where the two freight cars had gone over the embankment.
I have got an idea," said Ralph, slowing up as they neared the first sidingof the yards in-tracks.
As he remembered it, the siding was not of great length, and ended at the side of a granite pit.
Adair and his men had explored every spur and siding the entire length of Eagle Pass.
The wire to the railroad official read: Conductor freight number 17 refuses me siding to reload stock in my charge.
Half an hour later the train rumbled merrily past a siding without stopping.
The train rolled past anothersiding and into the yards of the division town.
Dave read: Am instructing conductor to put you on siding and place train crew under your orders to reload.
The parson, however, was not likely to bring forward an opposition candidate; for that would conflict with a second principle of conduct, the principle of siding with the rich on all possible occasions.
Hester stood considering, while her eyes wandered across to a siding beyond the up-platform, where three men stood in talk before a goods van.
Well, you can go to the Siding every day if you want to.
Hardly a day but some young fellow from Tyre or the Siding made bold to hitch his horses to the fence before Dutcher's place.
Bluff Siding was the only town the child knew, and it was a wonderful thing to go to town.
He advised about books, and said: "And you'll need some little things which Bluff Siding doesn't keep.
She had spent a year in theSiding in preparation for the work in Madison, and the time of her adventure with the world was near.
She went with her father down the valley to Bluff Siding to meet her.
Are you not the lad I helped fix up an emergency battery at Watson Siding last spring?
A moment after giving his "OK" the Watson Siding operator was at the telephone calling for Bixton central.
What the at first puzzled and then thunderstruck operator at Watson Siding read off his instrument ran very differently.
Alex, and springing to the tracks, he dashed across, and with an exclamation brought up before a mound of earth six feet high over the siding rails.
You are off for Watson Siding in twenty minutes, to take charge of the station there nights," said his father.
And while the instruments at Bixton remained momentarily silent, the surprised operator at Watson Siding read in draggy but decipherable signals the words: "Read every other word.
There was no sign of activity about the place, and the gates through which the siding entered the enclosure were shut.
To satisfy himself on this point he hid beneath a wagon which was standing on the siding close to the gate in the fence.
A siding ran into its rear, and there were connections across the main lines and a signal cabin in the distance.
Beyond the station, as Callahan well knows, the siding comes again into the main line, and the switch is a straight-rail "safety.
Between Lossing and Skipjack siding--if we haven't passed the siding in the last two or three minutes.
He was chasing a time freight with the fast mail, and the freight was taking the siding at Delhi to let him pass.
On a siding near the station a huge grain elevator was rising.
At the table the three girls talked of things at the Siding and ignored him so that he was obliged to turn to Farmer Kennedy for refuge.
Worldly considerations hold in Molasses Gap as well as in Bluff Siding and Tyre.
Had Bluff Siding been a city, the highest civic honors would have been open to Banker Sanford; indeed, his name was repeatedly mentioned in connection with the county offices.
If his coming was welcome to the Kennedy's, who took the Bluff Siding Gimlet and the county paper, how much the more cordial ought his greeting to be at Haldeman's, where they only took the Milwaukee Weekly Freiheit.
Towns like Tyre and Bluff Siding have grown during the last twenty years, but very slowly, by almost imperceptible degrees.
Just before the house, a slightly broader streak of that gleaming light showed the position of the siding rails.
The baggage-cars were farther up the siding than Silent calculated.
Haines walked up to the head of the siding with him while he opened the switch and accompanied him back to the point opposite the station-house to see that he gave the "stop" signal correctly.
Margaret was a high-spirited girl: he dared not tell her what he had to endure at home; she was capable of siding with his relations by resigning him, though at the cost of her own happiness.
And here was Absalom "siding along with her" in her unfilial defiance!
Next year Jourdain again incurred the displeasure of the church by siding with the rebels of Montpellier against their lord.
The inspector told me I'd find 'em at M'Bindwe siding waiting to go North.
If you get something to eat," he said, "I'll run you down to Glengariff siding till the goods comes along.
