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Railroad Quotes
Family stories and history riding the rails.
Several of these quotes are personal, describing fathers who spent decades working for railroads like the Southern or the Cotton Belt. Others look at railroad History more broadly, including the Pacific Railroad's Chinese laborers after the Gold Rush.
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One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in street cars and railroad trains.
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As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were.
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Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree.
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I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.
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When more Chinese started coming after the Gold Rush, employed on large projects like the Pacific Railroad, anti-Chinese sentiment became shrill.
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My dad was a telegraph operator for the Cotton Belt Railroad. He worked seven nights a week from 4 until midnight, no vacation.
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The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship.
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When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period.
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While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points.
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