18 Metaphors for railways

The railway is the only capital enterprise that Northern Mesopotamia requires, for there is rain sufficient for the crops without artificial irrigation.

The railway, with the exception of a portion near Calcutta, is a single line; but it is perfectly constructed, and with no great regard to cost.

Joseph Défago was a French "Canuck," who had strayed from his native Province of Quebec years before, and had got caught in Rat Portage when the Canadian Pacific Railway was a-building; a man who, in addition to his unparalleled knowledge of wood-craft and bush-lore, could also sing the old voyageur songs and tell a capital hunting yarn into the bargain.

The first railway Japan ever saw was the model railway constructed by Commodore Perry to excite the curiosity of the people.

Practically all the railways in Asia Minor are pure German concerns by right of purchase.

Was he not entitled to consider that the Russo-Chinese railways were the very apex of absurdity and disorder?

Those were the days when the Vladikavkaz Railway was a novelty.

The standard gauge railway was still a long way from Ramleh, and the railway construction parties had to fight against bad weather and washouts.

According to this reasoning, it must be apparent to you that railways are a most dangerous institution.

They were almost entirely confined to the railway, but in this country the railway is the centre and heart of all things.

This railway is double track everywhere, and forms two circuits, upon one of which the trains continually run in one direction, while those on the other track run in the opposite direction.

BUFFALO (256), a city of New York State, at the E. end of Lake Erie, 300 m. due NW. of New York; is a well-built, handsome, and healthy city; the railways and the Erie Canal are channels of extensive commerce in grain, cattle, and coal; while immense iron-works, tanneries, breweries, and flour-mills represent the industries; electric power for lighting, traction, &c., is supplied from Niagara.

The railways, trolleys, and automobile busses are unsatisfactory means of locomotion for sight-seeing.

Our railways and factories may be somewhat behindhand in upkeep, but that will soon be made good, and against that item on the debit side, we may set the great new organization for munition works, part of which, we may hope, will be available for peaceful production when the time for peace is ripe.

The railways, few and bad, are the work of foreigners, and are their property; the grass grows between the rails, which shows that we still follow the holy calm of carts and wagons.

But the railway was not his goal, nor yet the omnibus.

The electric railway from Berlin to Lichterfelde and the one at Vienna are in reality only elevated roads established upon the surface.

In September, after fomenting a strike on the Oriental Railway in eastern Roumelia (which railway was Turkish property), the Sofia Cabinet seized the line with a military force on the plea of political necessity.

18 Metaphors for  railways