Phrases with «railroad construction»

"Railroad construction" refers to the process of building railways or train tracks to create a transportation network for trains to travel on. Full definition

Sentences with «railroad construction»

  • Charles Francis Adams, president of the Union Pacific Railroad, called this redundancy the «maddest specimen of railroad construction of which» he had ever heard. (businessinsider.com)
  • Damasio's central narrative involved the strange case of Phineas Gage, a 19th - century railroad construction foreman whose skull was pierced by a metal spike during an explosion. (discovermagazine.com)
  • On Sept. 13, 1848, Gage, who worked in railroad construction, was setting an explosive charge with a tamping iron when the gunpowder detonated, rocketing a metal rod up through the roof of his mouth, into his left frontal lobe and through the top of his skull. (discovermagazine.com)
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