1824, Mr Scott, “[Essays on Rail-roads, Presented to the Highland Society.] Methods proposed by Mr Scott for overcoming Ascents on Rail-roads.”, in Robert Stevenson, editor,Prize-Essays and Transactions of the Highland Society of Scotland.[…], volume VI, Edinburgh:[…]Arch[ibal]d Constable & Co.[…], page45:
A carriage, such as we have described, could not travel along a railway with singlerail-tracks, owing to the axles not being both of one length;[…]
“If you mean the telegraph,” said the old gentleman, glancing his eye toward its wire, alongside therail-track, “it is an excellent thing;—that is, of course, if the speculators in cotton and politics don’t get possession of it.[…]”
1886 May 23,T[homas] De Witt Talmage, “[Tabernacle Pulpit: A Monthly Report of the Sermons Delivered by Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D.D., from the Pulpit of the Brooklyn Tabernacle.] Duties of Employers to Employees.[…]”, inThe Brooklyn Magazine, page54:
In this country the torch put to the factories that have discharged hands for good or bad reason; obstructions on therail-tracks in front of midnight express trains, because the offenders do not like the president of the company;[…]
