"Railroad line" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... believe there is a branch railroad line about ten miles away," said Captain Clark, "and if we ...
— The Girl Scout Pioneers - or Winning the First B. C. • Lillian C Garis
... generally that one engaged in destroying railroads. This work of destruction was performed better than usual, because I had an engineer-regiment, provided with claws to twist the bars after being heated. Such bars can never be used again, and the only way in which a railroad line can be reconstructed across Georgia is, to make a new road from Fairburn Station (twenty-four miles southwest of Atlanta) to Madison, a distance of one hundred miles; and, before that can be done, I propose to be on the road from Augusta to Charleston, which is a continuation of the same. I felt ...
— The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Complete • William T. Sherman |
