The engineer was trying to make the time up, and in consequence the coaches were swaying and jerking over the rather imperfect roadbed.
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey
The train is fast, the roadbed good.
"Epistles-from-Pap-Letters-from-the-man-known-as-The-Will-Rogers-of-Indiana"
Durham, Andrew Everett
In order to accomplish this, expert skill is required in the selection of materials, money instead of labor is required to pay for the cost of transportation, and machinery must be substituted for the hand processes and primitive methods heretofore employed in order to crush the rock and distribute it in the most economical manner on the roadbed.
"The Future of Road-making in America"
Archer Butler Hulbert