Freight Steam Locomotive

Famous quotes containing the words freight, steam and/or locomotive:

    “People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    “A steam ran small and terrible and shrill;
    it was so still;
    the stream ran from the oak-copse
    and returned and ran
    back into shadow.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “The American people have done much for the locomotive, and the locomotive has done much for them.”
    —James A. Garfield (1831–1881)