by 1890 there were 166,703 miles of railroad (and more to…

When I was a little kid, I used to walk miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles of railroad tracks.

— Pam Houston

The Underground Railroad was the first integrated civil rights movement. And it's a great example of when we work together, what we can go…

— Misha Green

The Treaty of Fort Laramie established most of what would later become South Dakota as a reservation, along with the Black Hills. But the…

— Heather Cox Richardson

It's hard to make something as large as a government change. It's a little bit like building the transcontinental railroad.

— Tim O'Reilly

In America, when you hear about the Underground Railroad, it's so evocative. You think it's a literal subway for a few minutes before your…

— Colson Whitehead

When more Chinese started coming after the Gold Rush, employed on large projects like the Pacific Railroad, anti-Chinese sentiment became shrill.

— Karan Mahajan

Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic…

— John Knowles

“The trains roared in on iron rails, bringing people from places he had never seen, taking them away to places he had only heard…

— Victoria Wilcox

I came from a poor family. My father was from Glasgow, Scotland; my mother's brothers were brakemen on the railroad. We didn't have anything…

— Mickey Rooney

I once drove a pair of horses from New York to Vicksburg, and to this day I can almost map out that country as…

— Collis Potter Huntington

The Underground Railroad was a spy network for the North and that story has never been told.

— Misha Green

“-How long you been with the rail road now? -Twenty-seven years. Now, I'll tell you something about the railroad. What I done learned after…

— August Wilson

I had a great job with the railroad, a good salary.

— Sturgill Simpson

There are two things I don't care how smart you are, you will never understand. One is an alienist's testimony, and the other is…

— Will Rogers

“In spring, 1937, of course, families still rode the rails because of the Depression, which everyone said was already in the history books as…

— Ronald Geigle