Sentences with phrase «while freight trains»

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This job is split between two complementary roles: railway locomotive engineers are expected to operate the trains carrying passengers or freight, while communicating properly with their crew and traffic controllers; while yard locomotive engineers specifically operate trains at the yard, uncoupling and switching cars, and inspecting and refuelling the locomotives.

Police say a pedestrian was hit by a freight train and killed while walking along the tracks in Dunkirk.

A 19 - year - old Kingston man was struck by a CSX freight train Friday evening while walking on the tracks, Town of Ulster

Suddenly you can barrel forward like a freight train to apply pressure; retreat out of danger with defensive jabs to keep your opponent at bay; and laterally weave to a fighter's weak side while simultaneously throwing a dangerous uppercut to their unsuspecting jaw.

And while his approach is to strip away emotion and present a largely affectless society (a style that Colin Farrell mines perfectly), he also identifies the right time to start to shift that style — and it means that when emotions actually register with the characters, it hits us as spectators like a freight train.

And thanks to Malloy and Pryor, the Common Core freight train and the inappropriate Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment testing scheme will end up costing Connecticut taxpayers tens of millions, even hundreds of millions of dollars... while turning Connecticut's public schools into nothing more than testing factories.

The visibility is great, while doing low speed maneuvers in parking lots I am able to account for the whole vehicle, unlike my previous car that could hide a freight train in its blind spot.

But while online hotel ratings services such as TripAdvisor are notoriously inconsistent, you can usually at least determine which places will be clean and safe and free of freight trains loudly rumbling by at 2 AM.

While the beasts of the other - world are doing their utmost to cramp Rick's style, he's lucky enough to stumble on the «Terror Mask» which imbues our hero with the raw power of a freight train and the physical charms of a giant rippling rack of barbecue ribs.

I would say a 50 % increase in my electric bill (determined without knowledge of the many last minute changes), as a single example, while maybe by itself is not necessarily sufficient to turn the freight train, is a negative side that is no where near erroneous.

La Niña, the cold variant, typically drives a relentless freight train of bad winter storms that hit the Pacific Northwest and then rumble east across the northern states, while hot, dry summertime spells settle in the West.

Trucks are not a sexy topic, but they are a big contributors to air pollution and global warming, especially in the US where shipping by train has seen better days (in 2002, trucks transported 58.2 % of all commercial freight while rail was 12 %).