Sentences with phrase «freight train»

My mother - in - law and sister - in - law smoke like freight trains.

What you deliver though, is freight trains with wings.

I'm not in favor of rewarding runaway freight train style drives.

Workers in railroad occupations ensure that passenger and freight trains run on time and travel safely.

This is a set of seven mini freight train cars.

I was homeless and riding freight trains for over a decade and my traveling companion was my dog.

These brakes look like they could stop a speeding freight train, the steering feels sublime, and the powertrain is clearly ready for war.

A few times he was caught on board freight trains by the French police and was sent back to the camp.

A single one can move as much merchandise as a 44 - mile - long freight train.

A contract is like a giant freight train filled with gravy.

Only one train can cross it at a time... you can't put a modern - day freight train across that bridge.

People rarely realize just how massive and powerful freight trains are, especially those with sometimes 100 or more cars and three or four units pulling them.

The High Line, which was built between 1929 and 1934, once represented a feat of cutting - edge engineering, sending freight trains soaring above the streets and straight through city buildings.

I saw it bearing down on me like a runaway freight train.

I have ridden freight trains for 6 years, now trying to settle down.

Perhaps even scarier than Hussman's drastic forecast is his assertion that, at this point, investors are powerless to stop the oncoming freight train of bearishness.

Operate track switches, couple cars, and work on freight trains in yard operations and on the road.

The break, also known as Freight Trains, is widely lauded as the world's fastest wave.

Lloyd Benjamin began riding freight trains when he was nineteen.

The defending North Coast Section Division I champion Falcons are basically a runaway freight train at this point.

Congress enacted the first national railroad safety legislation that year because the companies had insisted it was too expensive to put automatic braking systems and couplers on freight trains.

As a young man in the early 1960s, he explored the length and breadth of Canada by hopping freight trains.

An elusive graffiti artist documents his travels by freight train along North America's western coast...

But Planet of the Apes runs like a driverless freight train from start to finish without a hint of humor, irony, or invention.

The first 20 cars, including all three locomotives, of a 77 - car CSX freight train derailed around 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday as it traveled south along the Hudson River at the Newburgh - New Windsor line.

This simple and unassuming little move starts off like a warm bath on a Sunday afternoon and ends like a leap out of a moving freight train onto a unicycle.

This photographer's exploration of fictive utopias and the dreams of the itinerant gives us pictures of empty freight trains rolling through mountain landscapes, hobo musicians, and wizened prospectors still looking to strike it rich.

State Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi (D - Forest Hills) is calling on a city body to install sound barriers near the Fresh Pond Terminal in Ridgewood so residents will not have to hear loud freight trains passing by the neighborhood.

Madigan spoke about a CN freight train conductor living in Jasper, Alta., who had been laid off between 1997 and 2005.

In the first gallery, you see her series Freight Train Crushes, of large colorful paintings on paper, which Kim didn't want displayed on the wall — instead, she crushed them into wads and placed them as sculptures on the gallery floor.

The quakes were a lot less subtle than the quiet hunters of the cold war: they sounded like freight trains rumbling by.

CNBC's Morgan Brennan reports the latest details on the fatal crash when an Amtrak train collided with a CSX freight train in South Carolina.

Watching the climate talks in Copenhagen last year was something like witnessing the derailment of a slow freight train on a curve that could be seen to be too sharp well ahead of time.

It's an old freight train line built up high that has been turned into a walkway with gardens and cafes.

A Metrolink train collided with a Union Pacific freight train in Chatsworth on Friday night, September 12th.

Then the containers are dispatched from the rail yards alongside the harbor onto 1,200 diesel - powered freight trains that ferry goods up and down the coast, and 35,000 semi tractor - trailers that speed along heavily congested highways to the rest of the country.

While freight trains will not run on HS2, there will be more capacity for them to run on the existing rail network as a result of the project.

More than a decade ago a group of New York City residents launched an ambitious experiment to build a park atop an expanse of abandoned elevated freight train tracks.

Appreciate too the story about the first freight train electric ice cream maker... Shall I confess?

Maybe Lewis» high - emotion freight train allows him to pick off a pass and take it back for six points.

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And today is just the beginning, because we are going to go out and work every day until November, and we are going to send Washington a message and we are going to elect a Democratic House to stop this Republican president freight train.»

And we're going to start by taking back the House and stopping this extreme conservative freight train in Washington,» Cuomo said.

One other disaster to update: that freight train sideswipe incident last week in Montgomery County that shut down a stretch of Route 5 and halted freight and passenger rail traffic in both directions.

A $ 2 million grant, with a $ 1 million match from Pan Am Southern, will be used to study the feasibility of adding double - stacked freight trains on the Patriot freight corridor from Pownal, Vt. to Ayer, Mass., which would increase the freight line's capacity.

Most of the track the Ghan runs on is single track, and the train shares this with freight trains transporting goods throughout Australia.