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"The faction known as the Railroad that helps free and liberate synths is based off of the real-life Underground Railroad, which was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by African American slaves and abolitionists."
"The Madison Railroad celebrating 40 years of local service nationwide."
"When it comes to America's steepest railroad grades, Saluda is indeed the steepest mainline standard gauge railroad in the United States."
"Elijah McCoy: The inventor who revolutionized the railroad with 57 patents, including an automatic lubrication system for locomotive steam engines."
"Just a unique train and it was uh unique to CSX and unique to our company."
"A scale track can be an important part of yard tracks especially in the past but even today often there are tracks where certain commodities have to be weighed within the car and so a yard would have a scale track and a scale house to be able to weigh those cars."
"The Romance of the railroad will never die... the whistle still speaks of strange and Far Away places."
"The greatness of a railroad lies not in coping with emergencies but in preventing them."
"Wow, it's off! I realized after I'd filmed that last segment that the tender was actually uncoupled from the loco so the loco was only completing circuits because the loco and tender were just held together with the wires and not by that dodgy coupling."
"There's something about this railroad game that really gets in your blood."
"The railroad reached into every corner of the land, providing a spark to light the torch of progress."
"The most strategic aspect of southwestern Virginia was the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad."
"I do love the railroad though, one of my all-time favorite Theme Park attractions."
"I am Norman P. Curtis, president of the CN&W Railroad."
"It was one of the first wristwatches ever accepted as a railroad engineer's timepiece."
"Denver is unique for many things, among these is the fact that its competing railroad company organized to plan and construct a union passenger station."
"This is the one I've always wanted to build because I grew up around this railroad."
"Tell that railroad I'm here for good, dead or alive."
"It is impossible to overstate the significance historically of the railroad in bringing about the following 100 years so-called the American century."
"We are living in a country that was shaped by the railroad."
"The difference between the Strasburg railroad and a museum is operation and hard day-to-day usage."
"Though the ride is only an eight mile round-trip, it's a 100 year journey into our collective pasts, presence, and possible futures."
"At that moment, all of the canal workers looked over at the train, dropped their picks, malls, and shovels where they were standing, and proceeded to walk down to the railway engineer's office in order to get a new job working for the railroad."
"There's so much more that goes into railroad wheels than one might expect."
"Nothing changed the West faster than the railroad in the late 1800s."
"Stop, look, and listen every time you come to a railroad crossing."
"Railroad means progress; it's good for the West."
"The Golden Spike was driven on May 10, 1869, completing the nation's first transcontinental railroad."
"It's apparently the most scenic part of the railroad and includes the very famous Ophir Loop."
"The Redding's T1s are the most famous locomotives used by the railroad."
"Keith Creel became his successor, proving to be a much better president for the railroad than Harrison ever was."
"I worked for the Santa Fe Railroad as an apprentice engineer. I ran engines all over LA."
"Surviving from the 1930s and hailing from a remote corner of the Centennial state, Galloping Goose Motorcar number two is truly a Colorado Railroad icon."
"It was designed back in the mid '80s as an operating railroad, and it has always been an operating railroad."
"The railroad was such that you had distributed information and distributed authority."
"Imagine if railroad engineering followed the principles that would later come to define highway engineering."
"Here we have the remains of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, which operated on this line from 1883 to 1890."
"Who invented the first railroad telegraph system? Granville T. Woods, a black man."
"This is a national historic site commemorating the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869."
"The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum is dedicated to educating the public about railroad history in the United States."
"Welcome to downtown Terrace, population 0, but if you were here in 1870, Terrace was one of the largest towns on the entirety of the Transcontinental Railroad."
"It became the southern terminus of the Cumberland Valley Railroad from Harrisburg to Chambersburg."
"The completion of the transcontinental railroad brought an end to the need for the Oregon Trail."
"He's a brilliant railroad engineer."
"The dream of building a Transcontinental Railroad became an all-consuming obsession."
"I particularly like this Northern lobe; I think it would be the scenic highlight of the railroad."
"It was unveiled at the B&O centennial celebration, also known as the Fair of the Iron Horse."
"The project for construction of a great railroad through the United States of America, connecting the Atlantic with the Pacific Ocean, has been an agitation for over 15 years. It is the most magnificent project ever conceived." - Theodore Judah
"After they did the mapping, then you build the Continental railroad, Transcontinental Railroad."
"Driven and maintained by the passionate men and women of railroad Australia."
"It's Cold! There is ample frost on these railroad ties."