Rail Quotations

You come to Washington, there's a rail bill, there's a highway bill, there's a aviation bill. But when you go home, there's an airport, there's a highway, there's a rail, there's transit. It all has to work together.

There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I'm my own person.

We can't just rail against crime. We must speak of the root problems - devastating family breakup, an insidious culture of violence that cheapens human life, skyrocketing prisoner recidivism rates that rob our communities of husbands and fathers - and recognize that there is a societal role in rehabilitation and restoration.

You look at the pillars of the state: politics, the media, police, lawyers - they've all got their formal role, and then nestling above that is that power elite who are networked in through soft, social links, that are actually running the show. Why didn't I know that 10 years ago, and why didn't I rail against it? Why did I become part of it?

Australia has an economic interest in ensuring our cities have 21st century urban rail transport to reduce traffic congestion.

I'm pleased to announce that my government will build the much-needed Melbourne airport rail link.

Not only should we be giving Amtrak the money it needs to continue to provide services; we should be providing security money to upgrade their tracks and improve safety and security measures in the entire rail system.

It's absolutely essential that Melbourne, and Victoria, has a rail link to the airport.

Many Americans have a romanticized view of trains, rooted in a bygone era of elaborately adorned rail cars lit by flickering gas lamps and pulled by smoke-belching steam locomotives.

There was some scene in The Blues Brothers movie, when they had the chicken wire across the front of the stage, and it was almost like that. They had a big guard rail around the stage, which kept the college kids from getting on... we had some good times.

I'll rail against what I think is wrong.

When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.

The vast majority of the people employed by Wall Street are the secretary who goes in to work on the Long Island Rail Road, who makes fifty, sixty, seventy thousand dollars a year.

For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.

There is no such thing as a Democratic or Republican road, bridge, port, airfield or rail system.

We're building the infrastructure we need, whether it be the Melbourne Rail Link, the airport rail link which Melburnians have so wanted for over 40 years, upgrading the Pakenham-Cranbourne railway line, or building the East-West Link.

If we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they've done on the Shanghai line in China, and if we had a straight path from L.A. to San Francisco, as well as the milk run, at least that would be progress.

All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf.

We cannot achieve a top-tier economy without a top-tier transportation system, ... To make sure that no Hoosier community is left behind, we must make major moves and bring into being a system of roads, bridges, rail lines, ports and airports second to none.

Major shifts in transportation priorities are essential to achieving energy independence and maintaining national security, ... A serious commitment to rail and transit has been a missing element in the U.S. strategy to reduce our dependence on Middle East oil.

Light rail has given Salt Lake City a new kind of ambience. It feels like a real city.

One rail actually owns the line and the other leases it, and we needed access to it. Getting responses from the (railroad) has been challenging.

Monorails have their own fan club, which claims more than 2,500 members who swap monorail toys and trinkets. Modern light rail can claim no such devoted fan base.

Obviously, off that last race (when he broke his maiden on February 17) it was a very nice race for him. Today was a big step up, but we had a lot of confidence in him and thought he belonged in here. He's still got a little bit to learn, but Edgar said that when that hole opened up along the rail he showed a lot of acceleration.

If they screw it up, there probably won't be another rail merger approved, at least in my career.

Let's face it, I think light rail is much sexier than buses.

Let's put it bluntly. If rail would be profitable, private companies would be doing it already.

Since Network Rail took over the nation's railway infrastructure some three years ago, maintenance has been taken in-house rather than being outsourced, and we have changed our approach from a 'find and fix' maintenance regime to one of 'predict and prevent,'

She ducked in a little bit in the stretch, but that wasn't anything. She's doing so good right now. I had an outside post, and I could stay away from the rail in the middle of the track and could just go. This has to be one of her best performances.

She broke very good, and I put her in a good position. After about five-eighths, I could see other horses were getting tired, and we went up to put pressure on them. I had a chance on the rail and I took it. She's a really good horse.

She ran well, but the speed on the rail has been dangerous all day. We passed a lot of horses, and she ran a great race to be second. But the winner got an early lead, and it was hard to pass her.

Shoppers are programmed to hunt for bargains, ... If we are moving stock around the store on a rack rail it won't be long before people start rifling through the clothes looking for special offers, even if there's no 'sale' sign. People associate things in boxes or things hanging on rails in no particular order with sale stock or bargains. They like to think they've scored something brand-new or something discounted.

Shoppers are programmed to hunt for bargains. If we are moving stock around the store on a rack rail it won't be long before people start rifling through the clothes looking for special offers, even if there's no 'sale' sign. People associate things in boxes or things hanging on rails in no particular order with sale stock or bargains. They like to think they've scored something brand-new or something discounted.

She was sitting on the rail and said, 'Excuse me sir, can we have room.' He had right of way, but could not slam the door on a cute little girl,

The only one that will work is a rail system, but the routes need change.

Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.

has always been the most logical place to build a rail line.

There are still treaty issues that First Nations will have to negotiate on the rail corridor, but those negotiations will be between First Nations and government.

For residents of these densely populated communities, the light rail will provide unprecedented mobility and convenience. This is a huge day for Union City, West New York and North Bergen.

If Amtrak fails, intercity passenger rail will be gone in this country, ... If we can't make it at Amtrak, we're all in trouble.

But first and foremost, ... it's for transportation, and we know that rail is in Macon's future, just like it's in Macon's past, and we have to be ready for it.

I don't believe our city should be opening up these businesses, whether it's because of a light rail relocation or not, ... This city isn't going to build its future on sexually oriented businesses. That's a false economy, and not one I'm going to rely on.

He was going great and he wasn't tired but when he saw the rail he tried to go over it. After I got him settled, he was coming back on. I don't know why he did it.

If we move away from the barge traffic, the expense we would have of creating new roads and rail to accommodate this traffic would be daunting.

Steve said he ran out of running rail where the gap appeared, otherwise it would have been easier and, in my view, that was a good performance beating horses like Asset and Close To You.

PATH line rail schedules have nothing to do with toll-crossing charges.

I saw the other horse close to the rail so I moved out a little to give myself some room in case anything happened and, sure enough, it did. But I was going to gather him in anyway, I felt. I knuckled him and he started to pick it up on his own and when I asked him in the stretch he went on real well. He's developing into a real nice horse.

Our industries are under intense competition and for many of us, rail has been the most economical means of transporting in our raw goods and shipping out our finished products. Unfortunately, since most of our businesses are captive to only one major railroad, there is a monopoly of power and the railroads have been using this to dramatically increase prices and reduce service.

Our input regarding fees within the Corporate Travel market helped steer the Evolvi development. Because of our strong relationship, we think the TravelPower Interface increases the value Evolvi brings to the travel industry. The new Evolvi Interface is already generating a lot of interest and will soon be developing a new automated reconciliation feature based on the Rail Settlement Plan (RSP),

It is normal for ?in the rail yard' cars to not have air in their breaks. The reason is you're separating cars from a train. In order for the cars to move freely, their breaks don't have air.

Remember who drove the car into the crossing area. Who drove the car? The train didn't drive there. It goes there. It can't go anywhere else, ... The decision-making process was made by a driver. People have to be sensitive to the dangers of these rail crossings.

Our goal is to create jobs within the port district, and we believe this will help us do that in that we'll be able to present property where businesses can locate with ready access to the river, a rail line and a four-lane highway.

It is a concern that citizens already are touring the Titanic and some Atlantic vent sites with deep-diving submersibles. When Yellowstone Park -- which features geothermal geysers analogous to deep-sea vents -- was established in the mid-1800s, no ordinary person could get there because it was a four-day trip by horse from the nearest rail line, but roughly 3,000,000 visited Yellowstone last year.

It cannot be held tomorrow due to the Rail Budget, or on February 27 because of presentation of Economic Survey and the next day due to the General Budget. President Bush would arrive here on Tuesday.

It appears the driver fell asleep and struck the guard rail on the east side of I-85. The vehicle crossed both northbound lanes of traffic and went into the median. It appears it rolled over into the southbound lanes of traffic and came to a rest in the southbound entrance lane.

It could be a key benefit if we get a rail station in there.

We'll need to find a whole lot more rail cars that may not be readily available. There's also concern about trucks, and the truck drivers needed for moving this are in short supply.

We'll obviously use common sense, in that if players aren't yet up to the level of fitness we're looking for we won't risk them. We don't want to risk any injuries before the Northern Rail Cup campaign.

We are interested in utilities. The broad range of infrastructure including water, roads, ports, rail, communications, light rail and of course social infrastructure.

The Ash Grove expansion is going to add more capacity to the Northwest cement market. Plus, it's probably going to help alleviate some problems inland in states farther east because of the access to rail that they'll have.

We have to move it from the Midwest, move it by rail or by truck, and so it's a different distribution system, a different storage system, and that is just coming into play right now.

We have world-class aviation, we have world-class highways, but we have a rail system that is not competitive with other countries, ... We (administration officials) are passionately committed to the idea that rail could and should be playing a larger role.

Most of our corn is either going to travel to South Bend to the ethanol production plant there, or will be shipped by rail to the Southeast.

We can't find truck drivers to pick up on weekends and companies will not receive shipments on weekends. (The rail lines) don't give us a break; it's unfair.

We'll also discuss the advantages of having a high-speed light rail system. Discouraging cell phone use while on I-95 will be supported too.

We used to joke about Jerry Bailey's rail pass. He was an inside rider. That's where the fearless riders go. It's the shortest way around the race track - and the most dangerous.

there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails.

We are going to have to exponentially increase rail security, ... to give the cities and towns across our country the security they need.

We are not avid rail fans. We are essentially tourists travelling around the country to see things, using rail as the prime means of transport wherever possible.

Embrace your dorkdom or rail against it. The choice is yours.

We still have a great deal to do. That's why New Jersey is so restless. We're only in the middle of a 40- to 50-year plan to connect and expand our commuter rail system.

We're just going to take it apart and see what we can see. There's something clear on the top part of the engine. I think it was fuel. We'll take it apart little by little. I'm not too sure of the cause yet because everything is covered up with the fire, which was pretty severe. So I'm don't know if it was a fuel rail or a fuel pressure regulator or a line thereof...something in that vicinity. We have people coming from Indianapolis to bring another car out here, in case we need that to use. We're going fix it no matter what.

We're not sure we need the full 20 years. All we're getting out of it is the right of way to be able to build the rail line.

We definitely need to look into ways to increase the security of our rail system.

When I get on an airplane, I am less worried about the passengers than what is going into the hole below. I worry about containers being shipped into this country. I worry more about rail security than I do air security.

When the rail network crashes and burns, the road network does too,

In my heart, I'm always in my rail-hosen.

We built it with three straight months of work and 20,000 pounds of steel from a South Jersey rail yard.

With 27-foot ceilings, large power, available rail and excellent highway access, no other facility bundles these characteristics in such a high quality, modern facility. We anticipate great demand.

We view the commuter rail as carrying enough passengers to save one traffic lane.

We would agree that intercity passenger rail can be part of the solution (to traffic and gas problems), but today it's not, in too many parts of the country,

The region is strong and attractive in a transportation sense for a lot of reasons -- easy access by rail and easy access by a big international airport and we have provided the commensurate effort to preserve and expand both. The council, which provides a lot of oversight, is determined to be a force on all appropriate fronts.

With this investment, we are improving the quality and safety of the rail and preventing rail defects.

We're right smack in the middle between downtown and the Denver Tech Center. With light rail coming in, we think it is going to be an even more exciting place to be.

When it comes down to it, water, sewer, roads and rail is what you need.

The potential is there for a California solution. I think other rail transit agencies around the state would be interested in our results.

We've asked BNSF to fix these problems, and they haven't, which is why we're proceeding with our rail rate complaint with the Surface Transportation Board, ... BNSF needs to do more for our farmers and shippers.

What has impressed me the most is Wildfire has been winning when things aren't going his way. He's dead rail but he's been drawing all outside boxes.

there are currently no bombs capable of functioning on the French rail network.

We believe that the economic future of this corridor and the future success of the airport depend on a viable road and mass transit network. This will only happen if there is an investment in both improving the Dulles Toll Road and complementing that road with rail to Loudoun County.

'West To A Land Of Plenty' shows a family heading west, first on board a train, and then going into areas as yet untamed by rail by way of an ox-drawn wagon.

With the peak summer season for electricity approaching and rail deliveries of coal still not where we would like them to be, we are monitoring this situation carefully.

Due to the significant capacity demands and the need to service our business customers, we're unable to entertain additional commuter service on our rail lines in this tremendously constrained area.

Do we have to be rail thin to possess 'outer beauty' and sex appeal and to be capable of attracting lovers?

The winning bidders should make shipments through sea, rail or land routes within 15 days of the opening of L/C (letter of credit).

While there are no indications that terrorists are planning similar attacks in the United States in the near term, we have asked train and rail operators in the country to be on a heightened state of alert,

To divert meaningful volumes of through-trucks from I-81 in Virginia, the upgraded rail line would need to handle six new trains per hour, not per day.

As they're sorting cars for each destination, the locomotive or the set of rail cars has to go back and forth ... and change the routing of rail cars to another track, ... I know it's very frustrating to see that.

I spent the whole Sunday in the queue for the ticket. I appeal to both countries to relax the visa process. It is a must -- it is more important than opening rail tracks and air and bus links.

The staff is not leaning toward a rail technology recommendation at this point. That may be a surprise to some people.