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Example sentences for "trainloads"

Lexicographically close words:
trainers; traines; training; trainings; trainload; trainman; trainmaster; trainmen; trains; traipsing
  1. By trainloads they pass out of the stockyard and into the mill, where the track runs directly in front of the furnace-doors.

  2. Trainloads of them pass daily out of the pit to the blooming-mill, to catch their first transformation.

  3. I could see trainloads of even steel shapes moving out of the freight yard to become the steel framework of the world.

  4. Under normal conditions we can put five trainloads a day of troops across Texas, in addition to our regular traffic and keep them moving at a rate of from seventeen to eighteen miles an hour, including stops.

  5. Eight months at the least and we'll have a producing property shipping trainloads of ore every day.

  6. Trainloads of food are moved into the interior and there are distributed with an impartial hand.

  7. Trainloads of other supplies were dispatched in all haste from various points in the West and East, carrying provisions of all kinds, tents, cots, clothing, bedding and a great variety of other articles.

  8. From all parts of California trainloads of food were rushed there in all haste.

  9. Besides us, as we crawl up snuffing the lines like dogs on a scent, grim trainloads of wounded wait soundlessly in the sidings.

  10. She was finally placed on a committee which was to meet the trainloads of wounded soldiers when they first arrived.

  11. On the other hand, the extravagant promises of economy from large trainloads have been considerably abated of late.

  12. In the meantime the steady increase in volume of traffic, making whole trainloads possible, together with the growth of very long distance business, made it imperative that these trains be operated at high speed with few stops.

  13. Less iron, coal, and raw materials and more merchandise and manufactures offered for carriage, necessitated a positive reduction in the trainloads as already mentioned.

  14. For nearly every road the trainloads for 1904 were distinctly lower than in the preceding years.

  15. The immense gain in trainloads has probably been the main element, among these, as already observed.

  16. From these figures it certainly appears that trainloads for long haul are standardized at not less than 2,000 tons, a figure which would have seemed absolutely impossible to railroad managers of fifteen or twenty years ago.

  17. The movement of average trainloads in connection with ton-mile revenue bears upon this point.

  18. In 1903, for instance, a general decrease in trainloads followed a reduction in the relative amounts of low as compared with high grade tonnage.

  19. Into St. John's Park at dawn come trainloads of produce.

  20. The road was committed to some big building projects and it needed whole trainloads of girders and columns; bridges by the dozen.

  21. When we got the returns from the first consignment, we shipped two trainloads every fortnight until our holding's on the Medicine were reduced to a remnant.

  22. There was nothing of importance in the North except the shipping of a few trainloads of beeves from our ranch in the Outlet, and as the bookkeeper could attend to that, I decided to go back.

  23. The Santa Fé Railway had built south to Caldwell that spring, affording us a nearer shipping point, and we moved out five to ten trainloads a week of single and double wintered beeves.

  24. Tea finished, we set to work to get "beds" ready for the next batch, the first of the four trainloads expected.

  25. Early in the summer of 1916, the Pennsylvania and Erie Railroads promiscuously picked up trainloads of negroes from Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Pensacola, Florida.

  26. The report says: "Two trainloads of negroes were sent over the Louisville and Nashville Railroad to work in the railroad yards and on the tracks in the West.

  27. All trains are held up to let these trainloads of guns and cannon and ammunition go tearing over the rails to the front to save Russia.

  28. And still, trainloads of soldiers go out of Kiev every day without a gun in their hands.

  29. Yes, ship in trainloads of flour; send on fast mail schedule, with an engine in front, one behind and a Mogul in the middle.

  30. They strip the slaughter house, and then telephone to Swift, and Armour, and Nelson Morris, and Cudahy, to send down trainloads of beefsteaks.

  31. And the trainloads of men and the trainloads of guns.


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