I didn’t get a toy train like the other kids. I got a toy subway instead. You couldn’t see anything, but every now and then you’d hear this rumbling noise go by. - Steven Wright
To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something…the starting time of our daily train… In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time. - Aldous Huxley
The Spruce Caboose, the biggest, most expensive train ever built. Some said it was too big to stay on the tracks. - The Simpsons (1989)
You better do something, you idiot, because in ten minutes you’re going to have two hundred tons of locomotive smashing through Central Station on its way to Marshall Field’s. - Chief Donaldson: Silver Streak (1976)
It’s the same things your whole life. Clean up your room, Stand up straight, Pick up your feet, Take it like a man, Be nice to your sister, Don’t mix beer and wine, ever. Oh yeah, Don’t drive on the railroad track. - Phil: Groundhog Day (1993)
This will be a different town if you put a railroad in here, you know that. - Zeke Mitchell: Carson City (1952)
If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
That damn railroad you’re talkin’ about ain’t gettin’ any easier! - Lyle Gorch: The Wild Bunch, (1969)
No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else. - Orison Swett Marden
(Of the parralels between the railways and the church) both had their heyday in the mid-nineteenth century; both own a great deal of Gothic-style architecture which is expensive to maintain; both are regularly assailed by critics; and both are firmly convinced that they are the best means of getting man to his ultimate destination. - Reverend W. Awdry
Caboose, cabin car, crummy, way car, van, ape cage, throne room, hack, buggy, the office, shanty, monkey house, bedbug haven-American railroaders have known the last car on a freight train by all these names and more, and often as an ever-so-humble home. - Donald Dale Jackson
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. - Dwight D. Eisenhower