Meanings of build railroads in English

They put their capital together, and build railroads, harbours, and docks.

I used to help load and unload the boats and I worked helpin' build railroads.

We do not like men because they build railroads, or because they are prime ministers.

Yet somebody must build railroads, since the Government won't.

Why build railroads when there were no terminals, and terminals when there were no steamships?

I build railroads; I don't run them.

I'm going to be an engineer and go out west and build railroads and bridges out where its wild!

Do you imagine for a moment that you are the only engineer in the United States who can build railroads, Sir?

They have been granted to endow colleges and schools, to build railroads, to reward the soldiers and support their widows and orphans.

Graham W. Cracker had been a visionary who had made a fortune by luring Chinese workers across the Pacific to build railroads for substandard wages.

I suppose you think just because I do nothing but build railroads and things that I've grown effeminate since you tackled me the last time.

The Americans were busy building railroads, and Poe and Lovecraft died broke.

What will they care whether you built railroads or painted impressionist pictures?

German capital built railroads through Asia Minor, but English capital controls the Suez Canal.

If we built railroads, Europeans could run in on us and take our country.

Build railroads, for example, and then succeed on a farm.