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"Rolling stock" Quotes from Famous Books

... the latter, "and make sure that all are there. We are going to pull out of here before those crazy French yonder destroy all our rolling stock." ...

— Uncle Sam's Boys with Pershing's Troops - Dick Prescott at Grips with the Boche • H. Irving Hancock

... some details have been copied for years and years, although thoughtful men would say they are not the best, simply because they are adapted to a large amount of work already done. This is particularly true of the rolling stock on railroads. The cost of a change in starting in a new country might be warranted, but it practically cannot be done when the parts must interchange with so much work done in other parts of the country. You will find in other cases that the direct strain to ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 • Various

... Estrade, formerly pupil of the Polytechnic School, invented rolling stock for high speed under especial conditions, and capable of leading to important results, more especially with regard to speed. Following step by step the progress made in the construction of railway stock, the inventor, from time to time, modified and improved ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 • Various

... was the Lille he knew: the three crooked boulevards, the jumble of small streets, and open space before the railway station. There was no evidence of any unusual happening—no extraordinary collection of rolling stock in the tangled sidings, or gatherings of troops in the outskirts ...

— Tam O' The Scoots • Edgar Wallace

Words linked to "Rolling stock" : wheeled vehicle