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While the train chugs along throughout the spot, LL Cool J doesn’t appear until near the end, when the iron horse crashed into a living room filled with football fans.
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Brian Steinberg, Variety, 5 Feb. 2024
Droves of fans bolted through Grand Central Station in Midtown Manhattan to catch the iron horse that brought guests directly to the arena.
—Mark Elibert, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
Talk about an iron horse.
—John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2020
The big iron horse was about to rattle south.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2020
Imagine the possibilities of a place featuring stories of the Native Americans who lived here, the history of stagecoach travel followed by the glamour of the era of the iron horse?
—Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Jan. 2023
Oregon was in a competitive game and didn’t turn to its iron horse to end it early enough.
—James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 27 Sep. 2021
But statistics are a poor substitute for the thrill a railroad fan gets in watching an old iron horse under full steam flinging back its plume of smoke and splitting the air with its warning whistle.
—Wayne Whittaker, Popular Mechanics, 26 Aug. 2021
The sounds and the smells of a hurtling diesel in all its gleaming efficiency can never replace the colorful iron horse in the heart of a true steam-locomotive fan.
—Wayne Whittaker, Popular Mechanics, 26 Aug. 2021
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Brian Steinberg, Variety, 5 Feb. 2024
Droves of fans bolted through Grand Central Station in Midtown Manhattan to catch the iron horse that brought guests directly to the arena.
—Mark Elibert, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
Talk about an iron horse.
—John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2020
The big iron horse was about to rattle south.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2020
Imagine the possibilities of a place featuring stories of the Native Americans who lived here, the history of stagecoach travel followed by the glamour of the era of the iron horse?
—Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Jan. 2023
Oregon was in a competitive game and didn’t turn to its iron horse to end it early enough.
—James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 27 Sep. 2021
But statistics are a poor substitute for the thrill a railroad fan gets in watching an old iron horse under full steam flinging back its plume of smoke and splitting the air with its warning whistle.
—Wayne Whittaker, Popular Mechanics, 26 Aug. 2021
The sounds and the smells of a hurtling diesel in all its gleaming efficiency can never replace the colorful iron horse in the heart of a true steam-locomotive fan.
—Wayne Whittaker, Popular Mechanics, 26 Aug. 2021
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“Iron horse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/iron%20horse. Accessed 28 Feb. 2025.
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