83 Quotes About Trains

Trains are beautiful. They take people to places they've never been, faster than they could ever go themselves. Everyone who works on trains knows they have personalities, they're like people. They have their own mysteries.

Sometimes the smoke from the factories and riverboats and trains would obscure the night sky entirely. But the town's industrial breath was blowing somewhere else tonight, and so the Armstrong house was bathed in starlight. Nell studied the little white specks, like glittering dust on black velvet, and she asked,"You boys ever wonder what it'd be like to be somewhere else?

What is it about me that gets them all crying? It’s not the end of the world.

A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it.

I woke up feeling alone, so lonely. The night before, I had cried myself to sleep. I lay there on the floor, listening to the tube trains passing beneath me. I thought, All those hundreds and thousands and millions of people. London, London - I hate you. I picked myself up and got ready.

Gone. We were out in the country and everything slowed down into rolling hills covered with snow. There were trees, but no leaves, and I could not remember seeing anything so white and clean. Winter in the city was gray and the snow was dirty, but out here it was so bright it hurt my eyes and I had to turn away.

She knew there was a big Chicagofar off, where all the trains ran.

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

The very old lady in black looked up at a notice over the window:TO STOP THE TRAIN PULL DOWN THE CHAINPENALTY FOR IMPROPER USE, FIVE POUNDS.She smiled the gentlest, sweetest smile. "All my life I have been afraid that one day the temptation would prove too much for me," she said."Don't suppose there's anyone who doesn't feel like that, ma'am," said the soldier, grinning.