This time,it happened while he was working on a railroad with men who did rough work and looked rough.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

Beauregard had twenty thousand soldiers at Manassas Junction, a railroad village in Virginia less than fifty kilometers from Washington.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

His train is unsafe. Yet he stays on the job after other workers have called a strike against the railroad company.

VOA: special.2010.09.06

And they walk on rough,rocky paths, many of which follow old railroad tracks and roads used by loggers long ago.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

In a decision in eighteen seventy-six, the Supreme Court said states had a legal right to control costs of railroad transportation.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

Huge herds of cattle were brought there from western states to be transported by railroad to markets in the eastern United States.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

So,many people were shocked when Roosevelt announced he was taking action under the law against the railroad trust.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

On Tuesday his Berkshire Hathaway company agreed to buy the nation's second-largest railroad, the Burlington Northern Santa Fe.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

A short time later,state soldiers were used to break up a strike by railroad workers in New York.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

Then a free Negro man who worked at the railroad station, Hayward Shepherd, walked down to the bridge.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

Blaine had written the letters several years earlier during a shameful incident concerning the sale of railroad stock.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

His grandfather owned it. When the grandfather decided to sell the railroad, William's father moved his family to the city of Oxford.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

The purpose of the Kansas-Nebraska bill reportedly was to settle differences among opposing railroad interests in the area.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

The company asked him to lead workers on a project to extend the railroad into the Allegheny Mountains.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

Until a railroad could be built, supplies were carried west in wagons pulled by horses or oxen.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

Before John Henry was six years old, he was carrying stones for workers building a nearby railroad.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

Wagons traveled the Santa Fe Trail from eighteen twenty-two until a railroad replaced it in eighteen seventy-nine.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

Like the steel and oil industries, the railroad industry also had its stories of intense business competition.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

Some cattlemen believed it might be possible to walk cattle to the railroad, letting them feed on the open grassland along the way.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

The railroad company planned to buy the machine if it worked as well as the salesman said.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

They believed a better way to the railroad could be found, with plenty of grass and water.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

But the cattlemen believed they had proved that cattle could be walked long distances to the railroad.

VOA: special.2010.03.18