Toy train

As I walked in the forest I kept a sharp eye out for the figure who had been following me for the past week. Then I saw him; as usual, he was just a shadowy silhouette against the background. I tensed as I knelt to the ground, supposedly to tie my shoelaces. I heard soft footsteps behind me. I whipped around, ready to finally confront the person who had been following me. "Ginny!" I gasped. "What the heck are you doing here?" I asked, desperately looking for the man. "I saw you in the park, and…

There is nothing as important as the train station, and the places I’ve gone because of it when it comes to overcoming stuttering. I swung my backpack over my left shoulder and went up to the glass window. My voice clenched up, but I approached the counter anyway. “Can I have round trip tickets to ththth...thirtieth street station?” The station clerk nodded before I finished and handed me tickets to center-city Philadelphia. I left the ticket office and motioned to a station clerk. “Which…

Ernest Hemingway’s short story, ''Hills like White Elephants'', is about a couple traveling throughout Spain. The couple known as Jig, the woman and The American man, are set in a train station waiting upon the next train to Madrid. The story then transitions settings as they enter a bar where they drink beer and small talk while they wait. In this story, there is a form of communication being utilized by the couple, virtually through the use of codes, endeavoring not to speak on a certain…

Advantages of Transportation Transportation is the motion of people, animals or goods from one place to another. The modes of transport are air, rail, road, water, pipeline, cable and space. The field can be separated into infrastructure, vehicles and operations. Transport is significant because it allows trade between people, which is important for the growth of civilizations. Transport infrastructure is comprised of the fixed installations, which include roads, railways, airways,…

“Do you need a help with your backpack” the stewardess asked me in British accent. “Pardon”, I said “I didn’t hear you well”. She repeated, but I still didn’t understand what she was trying to say. I started to panic. “If I cannot understand British English, which I learned in the university for 1 year, how I will understand American English”. “How I am going to study in University in America if I don’t understand simple things the stewardess was trying to say, maybe I should get out of the…

There was some trouble on Grand Central and there are no express trains today and no trains running from Queens Borough Plaza to Times Square” the woman said to him. “Thank you ma’am” Matt said as he stepped away heading towards a door and sitting down on an empty seat. The car had started to fill up with people, and soon there were no more empty seats left for people to sit on, so instead they started to stand in the train car leaning on poles and standing by the doors. After ten minutes of…

decided to go Pokhara by Himalayan metro train. It takes almost one day to reach Pokhara by train. We reached the Kathmandu North train station at 8 o’clock in the morning and found ourselves in the flood of people racing for their tickets to reach their destination. After waiting for…

Light Rail Transit (LRT) is an open transport framework like a tramway, however working chiefly along restrictive privileges of-path, with less regular stops, higher limit and higher normal paces than nearby transport administrations. Middle arrangement (focal point of the street) is proposed all through most LRT courses. Middle arrangement with side stage stops is the least complex and speediest answer for LRT operations, as it: • Lessens connection with cyclists and people on foot. • Takes…

frequent subway passenger who was staring into the eyes of his fate after getting off work, Han was struck by an oncoming Q-train after being pushed onto the tracks in the way of the train. Han got himself into a brutal argument with mid-20-year-old homeless man, Naeem Davis. The moment when Han attempted to lift himself out of harm's way, Han was already staring into the face of the train accompanied by the recording and pictures taking of other passengers waiting for the tragedy to occur.…

In the manner of, that, when Christopher is at the train station he is focusing on how to walk, while he is probably missing a big element around him. “‘left, right, left, right, left, right….which Siobhan taught me to do to make myself calm’”(179). Obviously, someone could of been around him that was a…