Sentences with phrase «freight train from»

The «baby high,» as I call it, hits me like a freight train from Rainbow Happy Land.

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From my experience most larger organizations move very slowly, and whilst it may feel like a deal is moving ahead like a freight train, rest assured it will be slowed down the minute it hits the legal department.

From refrigerators to freight trains, CNBC's «Rise of the Machines» shows you how a new generation of connected machines can now speak to us, and each other.

Body and mind, we used to think, were two freight trains, travelling side by side, the stunt man making the incredible leap from one to the other.

You will, and ought to, feel the freight train of linear causality slamming you from behind as you serve out your sentence.

More than 25 large - scale model railway trains and trolleys — including American steam engines and streetcars from the late 1800s to modern - day freight and high - speed passenger trains — travel across rustic bridges, along overhead trestles, through tunnels and past waterfalls that cascade into flowing creeks.

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She served as Glen Ellyn's president from 1973 to 1977, leading the village during the 1976 disaster when two freight trains collided and caused an ammonia leak.

Passengers aboard the Amtrak train that slammed into a freight train before dawn yesterday described being jolted from slumber as seats ripped away, awakening to screams and crying.

Pastrick, a former train engineer from Ravena, once drove freight trains on the Delaware & Hudson Railway and recalled one trip to the Port of Albany with a student engineer at the controls.

Asked why a fire would crown more readily in the mixed conifers, Swetnam says emphatically, «Because it's a freight train coming up from the pines below.»

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.

A few hours later, suitable friendships having been formed, a freight train squeals to a stop at a rendezvous outside of town, a plume of steam drifting back from the locomotive.

The film follows a 12 - year - old map enthusiast (newcomer Kyle Catlett) from an eccentric family who sneaks onto a freight train to make his way to the Smithsonian.

Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (John Hough, 1974) saw Fonda as a bandit trying to outrun the police to the state line, but only moments from the border a collision with a freight train turns the getaway car into a fireball.

If the narrative structure of the piece is framed by two matches between Eddie and Minnesota, the thematic structure is a freight train to Hell punctuated by first a late - night train ride where Burt lays out what he thinks of Laurie, then this rape sequence, which cements the transition from Elia Kazan's Breem - contaminated A Streetcar Named Desire to the collapse of Breem's Code later in The Hustler's decade.

WHY: A gripping, electrifying and brutally unrelenting thriller, Damien Chazelle's sophomore effort draws you in from the very first beat of the drum and never lets go, like a freight train of intensity and emotion that leaves you breathless and your heart still pounding when it's over.

At night, we listened for the freight trains passing, and in summer, we would sneak raspberries from a neighbor's patch.

From gear two through gear six, this freight train just keeps pulling and pulling, with almost zero dead spots.

In keeping with its mandate of luxury, the Enclave feels smooth and plush on the road, serenely managing uneven surfaces without ever feeling too disconnected from the pavement and cruising down the road with the heavyweight assuredness of a freight train.

After graduating from high school he spent a year hitchhiking around the United States, hopping freight trains and traveling with a circus as a prop man, then attended Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University, where he won the Bennett Cerf Prize for fiction.

As that freight train of disruption chugs through the mind of the writing - conference - goer, how clear is he on what he's hearing from speakers in each session?

He has to learn to hop freight trains, deal with gangsters and face a horror from his past as a soldier during the First World War.

Even the hobos who «rode the freights» from the Depression Era to the time of Jack Kerouac's «Dharma Bums» and beyond were iconic figures, including our own British super-tramp poet, W.H. Davies, who travelled the USA in this way, sleeping in hobo jungles and eventually losing a foot whilst trying to board a moving freight train.

The goal was to have one big run from Ventura County to Santa Barbara and Goleta in the morning and a direct run back in the afternoon without having to pull over for other trains including the freights loaded with cargo.

After the Bergen Railway was opened in 1909, Flåm became a crossroad for passengers, mail and freight to and from the trains between Oslo and Bergen, in connection with the steamships on the fjord.

Managed by surfers for surfers, Las Flores Surf Club's pride is its signature break «Las Flores» — a world - class, 300 - meter - long, right - going freight train that forms outside the point and peels across the cove up onto the sand just meters from the front of the hotel.

It's rather telling then, that over the last few days, that very audience has taken to social networking sites in force to express their apathy, their disappointment, and occasionally their outrage at an annual event that is steadily shifting from a freight - train of digital euphoria to a rather more pedestrian rechurning of last year's reveals.

Because I was so into the story and the world of the first game, the first twenty minutes of the game hit me like a freight train — these were all locations and characters I knew very, very well, and I had happy gaming memories associated with many of these places and faces — and now, everything has changed (no spoilers from me!).

Some new activities have been added: most notably Showcase events, which are ridiculously over-the-top races that might pit you against a Jeep suspended from a helicopter (which cuts swathes through the environment) or a freight - train.

His likes include rap music from 1992 - 1996, collaboration, colour, rules, sandwiches, Presto white - out pens, CNC machinery, freight trains, fine furnishings and conversations about the impossible.

Swampy captures portraits and landscapes of his travels hopping freight trains and riding highways from North America to Alaska.

From 1960 to 1964, he worked as a freight brakeman and conductor for the Pennsylvania Railroad in New Jersey, later claiming that the repetition of shapes in train carriages and railway lines had a significant impact on his art.

Within the pop art tradition, KAWS has gone from tagging freight trains and subverting billboards in Manhattan, to designing toys, clothing and 3D figures the size of a building.

The remainder comes largely from shifting long - haul freight from trucks to trains, electrifying freight and passenger trains, and using green electricity to power them.

Around 1975, pollution controls removed the sulfate aerosol brake from the CO2 freight train, which is careening out of control at more than 2 PPM increase per year (and the rate of increase is rising).

But it will take decades to shift most freight from trucks to trains, design walkable communities, shorten our commutes, and build better mass transit and high - speed rail networks.

From a vast array of empirical reports (here and here), recent research and widely disseminated media reports, it has been well verified that the «expert» predicted accelerating freight train of dangerous global warming has been stopped cold in its tracks.

Some coal freight traffic — about six trains per day — passes by the waterfront, from the Powder River Basin 1,000 miles (1,610 kilometers) to the east en route to and from British Columbia.

As many as 18 new freight trains per day would run back and forth from the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana to carry coal to the new port.

Boats, planes, freight trains and trucks, construction, mining and agricultural machines, most cars and light trucks with spirit and muscle (i.e., hot V - 8's), motorcycles, motorhomes, snowmobiles, ATV's, all military vehicles, go - carts, golf course and sports field grass mowers, etc will always require and use liquid fossils fuels becasue these fuels have HIGH ENERGY DENSITY and are easily prepared from readily recoverable crude oil, which exits abundantly free in Nature, by fractional distillation and blending low energy processes that do not require the breaking of chemical bonds.

New York Times More on canal transport: Transport By Barge on the Erie Canal Uses a Tenth of The Fuel of a Truck UK Canal Freight Under Scrutiny: 80 % Less CO2 Than Road Haulage... Ethanol Follies in Upstate New York Supermarket Delivers By Barge to Save Emissions: TreeHugger More on Amtrak: Taking the Train to New York: The Only Way to Fly Amtrak Finally Gets A Boost in Funding Allison Rogers on Taking a Train from DC To Rhode Island

Speaking of spills, here is perhaps the most disturbing statistic of all: There was more oil spilled from freight trains last year than in the previous four decades combined.

Whatever part of a freight train can be considered calm and serene, was interrupted when a truck came flying down from the sky and landed on it.

From secure flatbed, innovative temperature controlled, bulk and tanker shipping, to worldwide freight logistics and driver training, Trans - System.

Performed conductor duties at Bellevue terminal, home terminal, the second largest rail yard in the United States, coordinating with the railroad, shipping companies, and engineers on the loading and unloading of freight and support for the operation of the train from one stop to the next.

Even if you still chose to complain about his comment (after all, he could have considered your feelings or thanked you for your efforts), your complaints would arise from a very different place than the first women, who is hauling an emotional freight train behind hers.

I would concur that the US economy is a freight train, but right now I'm not feeling convinced that the price appreciation we've seen isn't largely from falling interest rates and government intervention.

Get on board Like the worktops, the open shelves are made from reclaimed freight - train wagon boards to give a unique look.

The open shelves in this bright white kitchen are made from reclaimed freight - train wagon boards to give the space an unique look.