Locomotives Quotes

I have written stories, essays, even whole books on trains, scribble-scribble.

Each in the most hidden sack kept the lost jewels of memory, intense love, secret nights and permanent kisses, the fragment of public or private happiness. A few, the wolves, collected thighs, other men loved the dawn scratching mountain ranges or ice floes, locomotives, numbers. For me happiness was to share singing, praising, cursing, crying with a thousand eyes. I ask forgiveness for my bad ways: my life had no use on earth.

Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.'

Hell in a harness

We always wanted to be a big infra player in India - in sectors such as energy, healthcare, education, locomotives, etc.

I have always loved locomotives passionately. For me they are living creatures and I love them as others love women or horses.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history. Drive them full speed ahead and keep them on the rails... .

A lot of things work better in a locomotive.

Yeah it's mostly driving and taking airplanes but I like the trains - they're probably my favorite mode of transportation. They're smooth, steady, and you've got a lot of room and can walk around.

I'm fascinated by steam engines and with Victorian engineering generally, and as a corollary to that, I'm fascinated by the idea of long-lived technologies.

In our State the locomotive has waked up the sleeping energies of a great people, and is transforming wasted fields into blooming gardens, and arousing men and women from the dull and heavy sleep that dwells with satisfaction upon the past, into the bright intelligence that looks to a glorious future ….

You don't sign up to 'Trainspotting' expecting glamour.

As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were.

I think what initially attracts many kids to trains are the 'cool' things: strength, size, agency, speed. But trains also operate within a world of systems, schedules, codes, and fine distinctions. Enter the geeks. What I personally love most about trains is that they are transporting, that they take us places - literally and otherwise.

Much as I prize railroads, I am unwilling to see my constituents taxed to build them, except by their own representatives in the State Legislature, at such time, in such manner, and to such extent as they deem wise and prudent

I have liked trains since I was a boy, although I was never a train-spotter.

Who doesn't like playing with a railway? I think we've all got Thomas the Tank Engine in our blood.

As a young boy, I had the usual hobbies - sports, baseball cards, model airplanes and trains. But I always had a distinct fascination with trains.

Mode of providing steam power to locomotives.