Sentences with phrase «along railroad tracks»

Hundreds of people around the country die every year when they are hit by trains while walking on or along railroad tracks.

Long - distance, high - voltage transmission projects have been stymied, but a new transmission strategy would use existing right of ways along railroad tracks.

In Kobe in 1995, most people died in their homes: the old wood houses on infill land along the railroad tracks collapsed, but deaths were caused not by roofs but by fire: gas lines burst, igniting whole neighborhoods, and water mains also broke, preventing firefighting.

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

He walked along the railroad tracks to town to sell peanuts, and when he said he'd grow up to be President, he meant it.

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.»

Since «George Washington» (2000) opens with a teenage girl's dreamy, wise - beyond - her - years narration as the camera floats in slow - motion through waving fields of grass and glides along railroad tracks, you probably don't need to be told that first - time feature director David Gordon Green, then just twenty five and fresh out of film school, was a big Terrence Malick fan.

starts along railroad tracks with a boy and his dog and is clearly the seed from which «George Washington» grew.

Jake Edwards, a chief with the Onondaga Nation, walks Tuesday along railroad tracks that border Murphy's Island, on the shoreline of Onondaga Lake, near Carousel Center.

Housed in the former train station located along the railroad tracks in Anchorage.

, and rush out of the house with four minutes to spare for a five - minute sprint to church, and then... then I would simply turn north, through the small woods between our house and Mass, and head to the village bakery, perhaps, or just stroll unconcernedly along the railroad tracks, a free man, subject to no ancient religion and its pompous authority, bound by no rules and regulations — an independent spirit, a young man choosing his road for himself.

In TRACKS, Fred Skupenski creates simultaneous documents: of debris found along a railroad track, and, through his careful arrangement and lighting, transformations of those found materials into distinctive characters.

Not exact matches

Ruest said the railroad was adding workers, locomotives, along with new track and expanded rail yards, which he said would improve operations through the fourth quarter.

Among other things, a grand jury alleges the suspects, along with another Illinois man, put a bomb on railroad tracks near Effingham, Ill. in an attempt to extort money from the Canadian National Railway.

Where railroads had been obliged to maintain horses and riders every five miles along the track to race back and forth to warn engineers of impending collisions, the «singing wire» could now control the flow of trains, and not incidentally, their cargoes, so that whole new national distribution systems were possible.

The proposed site is on a long, county - owned strip of land adjacent to the Illinois Prairie Path and the Union Pacific railroad tracks along the north edge of the National - Louis University campus.

The board also annexed one house at 0N433 Cumnor Ave.. That home is in a small unincorporated neighborhood just north of the Union Pacific railroad tracks that became completely surrounded by village boundaries after trustees incorporated 29 houses along Crescent Boulevard from 1995 to 1999, and then annexed an additional 15 houses on Cumnor, Scott and Clifton Avenues and Ellynwood Drive in 2002.

Trustee Dwight Walton, a proponent of the measure, has indicated that a park plaza would take Arlington Heights full circle in its railroad - related development plans, because terraced areas stretched along the tracks before World War II.

Local environmental groups oppose the transport of tar sands crude, which is extremely difficult to clean up, and which they say poses a risk to the Hudson River, Lake Champlain and other areas where railroad tracks run along the shoreline.

Environmentalists were stunned this summer when they learned that Iowa Pacific Holdings, which leases / owns the railroad line from Saratoga to Tahawus, was considering storing empty oil tankers along an unused section of the tracks in Essex and Hamilton Counties.

The Ley Creek pipe that runs along the CSX railroad tracks over Onondaga Lake broke after similarly heavy rains in late October 2016.

But having trained professionals at the ready solved only half of the problem: These railroad physicians often had to treat their patients wherever they could, in less than ideal circumstances — dirty houses or hotel rooms along the tracks.

In Banff National Park in Canada, grizzlies have used the railroad tracks since the park was created in 1885, gorging on the buffaloberries that thrive along the right - of - way and the occasional carcass of an elk hit by a train.

We randomly came across this vacant building that sits along side the railroad tracks.

Along the way, they stop off at Rushmore where the cantankerous Woody hysterically riffs on America's great monument («It doesn't look finished to me») before then misplacing his teeth along, yet another, set of railroad trAlong the way, they stop off at Rushmore where the cantankerous Woody hysterically riffs on America's great monument («It doesn't look finished to me») before then misplacing his teeth along, yet another, set of railroad tralong, yet another, set of railroad tracks.

drive out to the alleged haunted railroad tracks along Munger Road, an infamous stretch of rural highway.

The test car hardly made an interior noise, even when bounding along rough streets and over railroad tracks.

The city rose to prominence due to it being a stop along frequently traveled railroad tracks.

[61] While building the railroad along the rugged Weber River Canyon, Mormon workers signed the Thousand Mile Tree which was lone tree alongside the track 1,000 miles (1,600 km) from Omaha.

Pacific Coast Highway, railroad tracks of the Coast Line, and the US Highway 101 freeway wind along the narrow strip of the county's north coast land at the base of the mountains for 12 miles (19 km) north to the Santa Barbara County line.

The San Clemente Pedestrian Beach Trail runs along the inside of the railroad tracks.

That same year, it was rumored that the Santa Fe Railroad planned to obtain an easement along the Laguna coast for the purpose of extending their tracks from Santa Ana to San Diego.

In GoldRush, the attacking team must push a cart forward along a series of railroad tracks past a series of checkpoints, while the defending team is charged with preventing their progress until time runs out.»

Railroad rights - of - way, in carefully selected locales, provide ample space for the production of wind power, while the trains themselves are perfectly suited not only for running on the converted energy of the wind but for carrying locally manufactured, 200 - foot windmill blades to new sites along the tracks.

This state law provides the primary reason railroad companies take no responsibility for pedestrian deaths along the tracks.

Laws in many states, including Indiana, make it a crime to walk along the tracks, but put no responsibilities on railroads to avoid such incidents.

The Missouri victim's parents asked Union Pacific, the railroad operator, to install fences along the tracks or take other protective measures, but the railroad reportedly refused, even in the face of lawsuit threats.

The railroad wanted a town along its newly straightened track, so it bought property, held a lottery and then moved 67 settlers — houses and all — to the new site over the course of one summer.

The property is 2 blocks from the railroad tracks along hwy 42.

I love the picture of Liberty doing her straddles on railroad tracks and decided to incorporate it into the design of the room to go along with the dance bar.