Sentences with phrase «building railroad lines»
India is building railroad lines that crisscross the country to connect underused coal mines with growing urban populations, threatening to dump more resources into an already glutted market.
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Bechtel is also the quintessential family business: It has been led, with a brief exception, by a succession of four family CEOs since cattle farmer Warren Bechtel founded the firm in 1898 to help build railroad lines.
Not exact matches
The widows of the Vanderbilt tycoons who had built the New York Central Railroad sold their ponderous mansions on Fifth Avenue — urban châteaus that lined «Vanderbilt Alley» from 42nd Street to Central Park — to real estate speculators like Benjamin Winter and Frederick Brown.
A number of modern urban newspapers, such as the Baltimore Sun, the Richmond Times — Dispatch, and the Hartford Courant ran advertisements before the Civil War for the sale of slaves or the recapture of runaways; all four of the major North American railroads own rail lines that were built with slave labor; the founder of Lehman Bros. bought slaves as workers for the firm when it was founded in pre — Civil War Alabama.
The Park District is building the multiuse path on an abandoned railroad line that extends nearly three miles along Bloomingdale Avenue.
Commissioners voted last week not to build the facility on top of the city's central reservoir on Myrtle Avenue at the Union Pacific railroad line after residents and Union Pacific officials testified at a public hearing that the site would be unsafe.
But Humphrey, who had prospected for gold in California, realized the railroad lines then being built would change the area «s character.
We dug canals, built railroads, built highways and telephone lines all so people could be interconnected.
Walker indicated he would refuse an $ 810 million award from the federal Department of Transportation to build a high speed railroad line from Madison to Milwaukee as he believed it would cost the state $ 7.5 million per year to operate and would not prove profitable.
State and local governments have appropriated close to $ 294 million to build highway ramps, 11 miles of natural gas lines, and a 10,000 - foot railroad spur for the site.
Built on an abandoned railroad line, the Katy Trail runs west to Highway 97, passing near Sand Springs» historic downtown.
Built as a logging railroad, the Skunk line was created to bring massive redwood logs out to Mendocino sawmills.
Last week, developer Ziel Feldman, a former partner of Barnett, closed on a $ 1.25 billion loan to start building two towers beside the High Line, the park built atop an unused railroad track in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood.