Sentences with phrase «abandoned railroad»

«There are 180,000 miles of abandoned railroad corridors around the country, and about 13,000 of these miles have been converted to trails,» says Della Penna, a sales associate with The Murphys Inc., REALTORS ®, in Northampton, Mass, and a 20 - year veteran of the railroad industry who has written several books on the rails - to - trails movement.

The three lawyers — Mark Fernlund Hearne II, Meghan S. Largent and Lindsay S.C. Brinton — are credited with having helped shape and clarify the law under the 1983 Rails - to - Trails Act, which allows the federal government to take abandoned railroad tracks and convert them into recreational trails.

The «O» is a pedal powered vehicle that is built to ride on roads and fit on abandoned railroad tracks.

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This abandoned railroad bridge spanning the Hudson River is an engineering marvel on the scale of the Eiffel Tower and Golden Gate Bridge.

One of the most popular Portland destinations, the Pearl District is a shining example of urban renewal — what was once an area of industrial warehouses and abandoned railroad yards is now the city's most cosmopolitan neighborhood.

Built on an abandoned railroad line, the Katy Trail runs west to Highway 97, passing near Sand Springs» historic downtown.

When the team realized it needed a full - scale wind tunnel, he came up with the insanely outside - the - box idea of retrofitting an abandoned railroad tunnel in the Allegheny Mountains for straight - line testing.

We're always building: two miles there and one mile here, on abandoned railroad tracks, wherever we have the money and the political will.

A 1995 grant helped to complete the initial phase of the abandoned railroad right of way, which runs from Richton Road past the...

The Park District is building the multiuse path on an abandoned railroad line that extends nearly three miles along Bloomingdale Avenue.

The city of Chicago, Friends of the Bloomingdale Trail, Chicago Park District and The Trust for Public Land have joined forced to convert abandoned railroad space along the once bustling Bloomingdale Line into much - needed community green space for residents and visitors.

And in Addison, W. Va., land scarred by an old mine and abandoned railroads will be scoured and transformed into a museum and tourism center.

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Then, beginning in the early 1980s, the railroad literally removed its tracks, the community — except for the county school bus garage and three churches — was abandoned, and there was a flight to Richmond and Raleigh (the county population was literally cut in half, and many farms lay fallow to this day).

The railroad abandoned the line in 1961 and cleared the way for creation in 1966 of the biking trail.

Instead, after seven years of planning and discussion, a long - abandoned New York Central Railroad substation under the Henry Hudson Parkway on Dyckman Street that was awarded for development to a politically connected community group remains a wreck that will cost the Parks Department $ 3 million to stabilize and repair.

Projects that it supports include restoration of the Rockaway Beach Line, a long - abandoned Long Island Railroad track that runs to the Rockaway peninsula.

The other trial, including the former SUNY president and Louis P. Ciminelli of Buffalo, whose company was a partner in a now - abandoned plan to rebuild the Stamford railroad station, will start in May.

Hein is asking the legislature to exclude the 11.5 mile stretch of abandoned and unused railroad track through the Ashokan Reservoir area from the study.

A special committee of the Ulster County Legislature has called on the Catskill Mountain Railroad to drop its suit against the county in exchange for the county abandoning its effort to immediately terminate its lease with the rRailroad to drop its suit against the county in exchange for the county abandoning its effort to immediately terminate its lease with the railroadrailroad.

Lady Bird abandons her devoted lower - class bestie, Julie (Beanie Feldstein), for a shallow, unambitious rich friend, Jenna (Odeya Rush), and two love interests from the wealthier side of the railroad tracks that divide Sacramento: first Danny (Lucas Hedges), a polite theater kid, then Kyle (Timothée Chalamet), a snobbish rebel rarely seen without a Howard Zinn book in hand.

The Orphan Train, a movement that relocated orphaned and abandoned children from large cities in the east to new homes in the west via railroad, took place in the United States between 1854 and 1929.

Silence, as the book explains, was prompted by seeing an abandoned park bench in the woods along the railroad tracks from Munich to Split, Yugoslavia.»

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My dad introduced me to English Setters when he found an abandoned LLewelyn English Setter he named Freckles in Buffalo, NY back in the 70's at his job site on the railroad.

The tunnel goes to the Golden State Railroad Museum, the USS Red Oak Victory, and many beaches and parks, and to Ferry Point where an abandoned ferry - rail pier still stands with a historic ferry slip still standing, though somewhat damaged by fire.

Eventually, and thanks to the introduction of railroads, Fort Laramie decreased in popularity with those travelling by wagons, and it was eventually abandoned in 1890, only to be rediscovered just under 100 years later.

During the latter part of the 1960s the Durango - Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad was registered as a National Historic Landmark but in 1969 the Denver and Rio Grande Western abandoned the tracks south of Durango isolating the line and leaving the future of the line in question once again.

These images are layered with acrylic and pastel, revealing deteriorating remains of abandoned South Bronx waterfront areas, punctuated by multiple power transfer stations, railroads, and refuse transfer stations.

Vitale's deliberately crude structures made of found materials such as reclaimed barn lumber, unused railroad tracks, and beams from abandoned factories are created through the artist's simple but transformative processes and actions.

Perry scavenges along railroad tracks and in abandoned buildings for discarded and decayed materials.

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.

This week, Doug Guller, the founder and CEO of Bikinis, announced that he had purchased the abandoned Texas town / railroad stop known as Bankersmith, Texas, on Craigslist and renamed it «Bikinis, Texas.»

When discussing what to do when your car breaks down on a railroad track, I used to say «abandon the car immediately and run toward the train» because when the train hits the car, the debris will go with the train.