Sentences with phrase «abandoned railroad tracks»

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.

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

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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).

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

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.

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.

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.»

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.

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.

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.