What is "railroad ticket"

Usage examples of "railroad ticket".

There was some crisp folding money in the zipper pocket, a Santa Fe timetable, the folder her ticket had been in and the stub of the railroad ticket and the Pullman reservation.

We spent some time trying to sleep on the bench at the railroad ticket office, but the telegraph clicked all night and we couldn't sleep, and big freights were slamming around outside.

If I travel, it's my railroad ticket, two dollars a night for a hotel room, three dollars a day for food, costs such as livery stable rents as required by the survey, plus per diem consulting fee.

I emptied filing boxes and pored over those shards and orts of the living past that can animate a writer's fancy: newspaper accounts, legal documents, municipal registers, memoirs, bills and records from stores, banks, railroad ticket offices.

The space was paid for, which meant that the purchaser must have shown a through railroad ticket at the time he gave the order.

The following morning Argensola was charged to get him a railroad ticket for Bordeaux.

Then I remembered that I'd used four in Forth Worth on my railroad ticket, and that I'd only broken one here in town where it would matter.