Sentences with phrase «coal trains along»

Coal trains along the Columbia River.

Not exact matches

I saw the tracks they left on the highways, lying on the floor of freight trains, the parents in rags, the coal box empty, the sink running over, the walls sweating and between the cold beads of sweat the cockroaches running like mad; I saw them hobbling along like twisted gnomes or falling backwards in the epileptic frenzy....
Exactly as tedious as Steamboy, then, and covering exactly the same ground, Howl's Moving Castle shares with Ôtomo's film, too, a giant steam - powered ball as its central image, encapsulating a vision of Victorian England in a Frankenstein's yin / yang clattering along inexorably like the Industrial Revolution while gorgeous impressionistic watercolour towns are polluted by coal smoke from a fleet of trains burning through the forests at night.
The Lackawanna Hotel, where we spent the night, occupies a grand old train station that used to bustle with passenger traffic but fell moribund when the city's star faded along with Pennsylvania coal and oil production.
His wry sense of humor was out in full force in this homage to John Coltrane, an exquisite installation made with coal and grand - piano tops that featured a minia - ture train running along a circuitous track.
If built, the new terminal would pile coal eight stories high along the Columbia River banks and send 16 trains through Pacific Northwest communities each day.
This is only one step along the way from mine to market — coal trains derail far more often than you might think (in North Dakota, Michigan, and Nebraska, just this past month), loaded barges crash into bridges (just this week), terminals flood when severe storms come through, and ships even crash into the loading docks.
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