 | John Patterson Davis - 1894 - 262 oldal
...and so four rails go down to the minute ! Quick work, you say, but the fellows on the Union Pacific are tremendously in earnest. The moment the car is...propelled by a horse at full gallop at the end of sixty or eighty feet of rope, ridden by a young Jehu, who drives furiously. Close behind the first... | |
 | Charles Francis Horne - 1905 - 474 oldal
...and so four rails go down to the minute! Quick work, you say; but the fellows on the Union Pacific are tremendously in earnest. The moment the car is...propelled by a horse at full gallop at the end of sixty or eighty feet of rope, ridden by a young Jehu, who drives furiously. Close behind the first... | |
 | 1919 - 652 oldal
...car. Less than thirty seconds to a rail for each gang, and so four rails go down to the minute! . . . The moment the car is empty it is tipped over on the...propelled by a horse at full gallop at the end of sixty or eighty feet of rope, ridden by a young Jehu, who drives furiously. Close behind the first... | |
 | Robert Lardin Fulton - 1924 - 184 oldal
...the minute. The moment the car is empty it is tipped over beside the track to let the next car go by and then it is tipped back again, and it is a sight to see it go flying back for another load, the horse at full gallop at the end of a sixty or eighty foot rope, ridden by a young jehu, who drives... | |
 | Slason Thompson - 1925 - 498 oldal
...gang, and so four rails go down to a minute ! Quick work, you say, but the fellows on the Union Pacific are tremendously in earnest. The moment the car is...propelled. by a horse at full gallop at the end of sixty or eighty feet of rope, ridden by a young Jehu, who drives furiously. Close behind the first... | |
 | Julius Winden - 1927 - 218 oldal
...Construction, Condition and Jffnrjftyf. ^c>r|a( 1Я7й) p. 24, 25* traok to let the next loaded oar pass It and then it is tipped back again, and it is...see it go flying back for another load, propelled Ъу а horse at full gallop at the end of a sixty or eighty foot rope, ridden by a young Jeha^ wo... | |
 | Rockwell Dennis Hunt, William Sheffield Ament - 1919 - 492 oldal
...car. Less than thirty seconds to a rail for each gang, and so four rails go down to the minute! . . . The moment the car is empty it is tipped over on the...propelled by a horse at full gallop at the end of sixty or eighty feet of rope, ridden by a young Jehu, who drives furiously. Close behind the first... | |
 | Gary Noy - 1999 - 492 oldal
...other side of the car. Less than thirty seconds to a rail for each gang, and so four rails go down in a minute! Quick work, you say, but the fellows on the...propelled by a horse at full gallop at the end of 60 to 80 feet of rope, ridden by a young Jehu, who drives furiously. Close behind the first gang comes... | |
 | Norm Cohen - 2000 - 774 oldal
...sunset, and backed westward before that hurrying corps of sturdy operatives with a mingled feeling of amusement, curiosity, and profound respect. On...propelled by a horse at full gallop at the end of sixty or eighty feet of rope, ridden by a young Jehu, who drives furiously. Close behind the first... | |
 | 1871 - 430 oldal
...to let the next loaded car pass it, and then it is tipped back again ; and it is a sight to. see it flying back for another load, propelled by a horse at full gallop at the end of sixty or eighty feet of rope. Close behind the first gang come the gangers, spikers, and bolters ;... | |
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UP are tremendously in earnest. The moment the car is empty it is tipped over on the side of the track to let the next loaded car pass it, and then it is tipped back again, and it is a sight to see it go flying back for another load, propelled by a horse... 