The phrase
"to run a railroad" means to manage and operate a train system efficiently and effectively. It refers to being in charge of coordinating and overseeing all aspects of running a transportation network where trains carry passengers or cargo from one destination to another.
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Still, as Edward Jones analyst Brian Yarbrough says, «The reason we put a Buy on this thing is that CP has been the
poorest run railroad, and we believe there's a lot of low - hanging fruit to run it more efficiently.»
The state of the road bed might be excused because it had been inherited from
privately run railroads when the federal government formed Amtrak.
Pope suggested, «
Run the railroads on natural gas, not diesel, -LSB-...] run fleet vehicles on natural gas,» and «Replace peakers with fuel cells.»
Individuals can find locomotive engineer positions with government -
run railroad agencies or with private railroad businesses.
In rapid succession
he ran the railroad's Northern region, then its Southern network, headed labor relations, and, before becoming CEO, oversaw operations for the entire railroad for four years.
His approach to
running a railroad is no secret.
As Adam Posen, president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, tweeted in response to a packed line up of Fed speakers: «This is no way to
run a railroad.
getting budget cuts through extender bills is no way to
run a railroad, or a state.
What a dumb way to
run a railroad.
Even so, this is no way to
run a railroad, let alone a state.
«What a dumb way to
run a railroad,» Assemblyman Bill Nojay, a Republican from the Rochester area, wrote on Twitter shortly after being released for the night at 5 a.m. «Not one member really knew what they voted on all day.»
This is no good way to
run a railroad, much less our children's educations.
Oliver Brown, on behalf of his daughter, Linda, sued a school board, not a public park commission or state -
run railroad, though throughout the South these public facilities were no less segregated than schools.
The front drivetrain functions so precisely, as if it was
running a railroad.
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There's more than one way to
run a railroad.
When HomeLife and GMAC suggest we can look south of the border for better examples of how to
run a railroad, I point out the dismal record of U.S. entrepreneurs sent to Canada to whip the colonial franchises into shape.