Sentences with phrase «railroad bridge in»

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Legal Newsline)-- A recent Illinois Supreme Court ruling came down in favor of the defense in construction accident cases when it ruled that Union Pacific Railroad was not liable for the injuries suffered by a subcontractor while demolishing a railroad bridge in Chicago in 2006.

A double decker bus from Philadelphia heading to Toronto slammed into a railroad bridge in New York state.

Mr. Sullivan highlighted Mr. Dyson's vision and support for transforming a rusting, abandoned 20th — century railroad bridge in Poughkeepsie into the longest and highest walking bridge in the world.

Based in Poughkeepsie, the nonprofit group Walkway Over the Hudson formed in 1992 and took ownership of the Poughkeepsie - Highland Railroad Bridge in 1995.

The cast and crew of Midnight Rider were filming on a railroad bridge in Georgia on February 20th when a train came down the tracks unexpectedly.

Not exact matches

«For almost 50 years South Korean villagers have insisted that early in the Korean War, American soldiers machine - gunned hundreds of help less civilians under a railroad bridge near a ham - let 100 miles southeast of Seoul,» read a front - page article in the New York Times.

Ground is expected to be broken in 2001 for a long - planned pedestrian bridge over the Union Pacific Railroad tracks in Wheaton, near where a 12 - year - old girl was struck and killed by a train in 1993.

In the film, British prisoners at a Japanese prison camp are forced to construct a bridge that the enemy need for their railroad.

Lhota ran the MTA, which operates buses, subways, commuter railroads, bridges and tunnels in the New York City area, from 2011 until the end of 2012.

The agency runs subways, buses, commuter railroads, bridges and tunnels in New York City and the surrounding areas.

In recent years, the railroad folks claim to have invested upwards of a million dollars in track, bridge and equipment repair, citing «professional volunteer labor» for much of the expensIn recent years, the railroad folks claim to have invested upwards of a million dollars in track, bridge and equipment repair, citing «professional volunteer labor» for much of the expensin track, bridge and equipment repair, citing «professional volunteer labor» for much of the expense.

BY SAM SCHWARTZ Lower Manhattanites are getting «railroaded» (or should I say «trucked») and have been for a quarter century ever since an act of Congress dictated that tolls on the Verrazano Bridge should be collected only in the Staten Island - bound direction.

Poughkeepsie... The Dutchess County Department of Public Works (DPW) has announced work is scheduled to begin next week to replace the deteriorating County Bridge D - 70R on Dover Furnace Road (CR 26) over the Metro North Railroad in the Town of Dover.

In addition, three Thruway bridges - Seneca Street, Cazenovia Creek, Potters Road and Smokes Creek - will be repaired and renovated and a fifth span - Norfolk Southern Railroad - will be totally rebuilt.

From the 1825 completion of the Erie Canal to the international border with Canada to current connectors such as major railroads, international bridges, state and federal highways, international airports and ports, the region continues to play a critical role in moving goods, expanding global trade and creating prosperity.

Both men spoke to reporters after touring the Walkway Over the Hudson, a former railroad trestle that was turned into a pedestrian bridge connecting trails in Dutchess and Ulster counties.

Waters has accepted an engineering job with a company specializing in railroad bridge construction in nearby Fulton, Missouri.

(For the same reason, railroad rails and bridge components in the summer sun often buckle and pose great danger if they can't expand freely.)

In 1994, he invented a temporary bridge made from railroad flatbed cars that was used a year later to repair a section of an interstate highway in California that floods had destroyeIn 1994, he invented a temporary bridge made from railroad flatbed cars that was used a year later to repair a section of an interstate highway in California that floods had destroyein California that floods had destroyed.

A wood carving depicts the aftermath of a passenger train breaking through a bridge on the Maine Central Railroad in August 1871.

Indeed, digs are under way in such unlikely places as a railroad yard eight miles west in East St. Louis, where a new bridge is scheduled.

Start (or end) your ride in Valentine for a chance to cross an old 148 - foot high railroad bridge over the Niobrara River.

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I chose Edward Hopper's 1929 painting, Railroad Sunset, and when I saw this painting, I thought of the Murray Morgan Bridge in Tacoma.

There are likable nods to Once Upon a Time in the West (in particular a railroad subplot and the oscillating dramatic score), Little Big Man, The Searchers, and The Bridge on the River Kwai.

This was one of the first FAST Act provisions that the Department's Federal Railroad Administration implemented: in February 2016, FRA launched a new website to allow local officials to request bridge information online and receive a report within 45 days.

In the interim, the Department has urged railroads to be more transparent with communities about the safety and structural soundness of their bridges.

It shows a group of gentlemen in Victorian dress, hats in hands, looking down the railroad tracks to the bridge that has failed and the steam engine has gone off the bridge into the river below.

The entire railroad passes through 86 tunnels and 38 bridges in the 25,000 square mile canyons of the Sierra Madre.

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The railroad bridge was one of the only remaining bridges across the Rhine to remain intact, as German forces failed to demolish it in time as they retreated towards central Germany and the capital of Berlin.

Built in 1947 from a recycled redwood railroad bridge, the gracious plantation manager's beach home is reminiscent of Hawai`i's plantation era.

Hell Gate (1998), is a 28 - foot - long (8.5 m) scale model, in Erector and Meccano pieces and wood, of the dramatic steel - and - concrete railroad bridge that crosses the Hell Gate segment of the East River, between Queens and Wards Island.

In 2008, Scenic Hudson contributed $ 1 million to the Walkway Over the Hudson State Park, helping transform the 120 - year - old dilapidated Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge into the worlds» longest elevated public park.

The bridge continued its role as an important commercial rail link for nearly a century until a fire in 1974 abruptly terminated its use by the railroad industry.

Along with nearby Franny Reese State Park, protected by Scenic Hudson in 2003, Illinois Mountain will be a prime scenic feature from Walkway Over the Hudson State Park, which will open later this year atop the Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge.

The bridge will provide safe passage across the railroad tracks for pedestrians, families with kids in strollers, cyclists and people with wheelchairs.

June 18, 2008 - Built to facilitate transport of coal from the mines of Pennsylvania and West Virginia to the mills of New England, the Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge was deemed the longest in the world when it opened in 1888.

Our lawyers achieved a $ 925,000 mediated settlement for our client's slip - and - fall injuries when we established the city's liability for negligent snow removal on a street bridge sidewalk over railroad tracks in Hackensack.

According to the Philadelphia Daily News, the 13 - foot - high bus crashed into a railroad bridge just short of 11 feet at 2:30 am in Salina, N.Y., located outside of Syracuse.