Sentences with phrase «by a railroad for»

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«The Last Railroad Tycoon» by Shawn Tully, won the Travel / Transportation category for medium - sized publications.

Last week, Canadian Pacific Railway made a $ 28.4 billion takeover bid for Norfolk Southern that would create North America's third - largest railroad by revenue behind Union Pacific and BNSF.

FOUNDED: by Neal A. DeAngelo and Paul DeAngelo in 1978 BUSINESS: Provides weed - control services for railroads, utilities, and large industrial sites START - UP CAPITAL: $ 2,000 ESTIMATED 1997 REVENUES: $ 12 million

Across India and much of Africa, the British Empire rolled out its railroads on its own terms and primarily for its own needs — to better extract local resources by connecting mines with ports, and to more quickly deploy its officials and troops in order to bolster its imperial expansion.

Indeed, although FRA supplanted the ICC as the agency responsible for promulgating and enforcing railroad safety programs in 1966, see Department of Transportation Act of 1966, 49 U.S.C. 103, the general framework established by the order of March 13, 1911 is still in existence today.

The city is a destination for an underground railroad operated by Mark Arabo, founder of the Minority Humanitarian Foundation, a nonprofit that seeks safe passage for Iraqi Christians fleeing ISIS.

, 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.

Bacon: One size does not fit all September 21, 2015: In the unassuming city of Frontenac, a rural town in southeastern Kansas that's situated in a region flanked by railroad tracks and perhaps better - known in past decades for the prevalence of strip mining for coal, SugarCreek has quietly operated one of the Cincinnati, Ohio - based company's most productive bacon processing plants since 1982.

The startled trainer who learned much of his trade by working for Ben Jones in the late»30s took one look at Silver Spoon as she hobbled onto the railroad siding and rushed to phone Farm Manager Balding.

By slapping Standard Oil in 1907 with a record $ 29,240,000 fine for accepting rebates from a railroad, and summoning old John D. Rockefeller himself from New York to testify in Chicago, Landis received worldwide publicity.

But, by gum, it sure sounds like it allows these Gen Z kids with their SnapDabs and their Vape Drives to return to the halcyon days of our own childhoods when we all walked over railroad trestles looking for dead bodies and rolled inside old tires up to the old Radley place and tricked other kids into whitewashing fences... and we liked it.Arkansas considered a similar bill last year and rejected it.

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Spokesman Matt Libs said park district representatives also would share preliminary plans for the five - acre circular facility with attendees at the 7 to 8 p.m. gathering at the Performing Arts Center, 16801 S. 80th Ave. Libs said the facility would be located near the intersection of 84th Avenue and 183rd Street, north of the Metra railroad tracks and buffered on one side by wetlands.

LOGAN SQUARE — A new YMCA is being planned for a 3.5 - acre site bounded by Cortland Parkway, the St. Paul and Pacific railroad tracks, Lawndale and Ridgeway Avenues.

Ground is expected to be broken in 2001 for a long - planned pedestrian bridge over the Union Pacific Railroad tracks in Wheaton, near where a 12 - year - old girl was struck and killed by a train in 1993.

Most recently, Park District officials backed off from plans for a proposed skate park in Kendall Park just north of the Burlington Northern Railroad after being bombarded by resident complaints.

Some of the first land acquisitions made by the new Park District included the dedication of Memorial Park by the Village (originally donated to the Village in 1883 by Dr. John Best as the site for a soldier's memorial) and leasing the railroad parks along the Chicago and Northwestern right of way.

The park — which is being built over the old railroad yard in the northwest corner of Grant Park — will cost $ 230 million and is scheduled for completion by the summer of 2001, a year after Mayor Richard M. Daley's original target.

William Dunton persuaded the rail builders to route the train through his town by selling 16 acres of his own land for railroad right of way for only $ 350.

I can tell you one thing for sure... she would be more open to having a hospital birth if she had any sort of assurance that she wouldn't be railroaded into interventions by malpractice - fearing hospital staff.

This summer Park District officials backed off from plans for a proposed skate park in Kendall Park, just north of the Burlington Northern Railroad tracks, after being bombarded by resident complaints.

The MTA will audit safety procedures at the Long Island Rail Road after an NTSB report criticized the railroad for lax enforcement of rules that could have saved the life of a worker struck by a train last June, railroad officials said.

Hills also accused Long of «railroading» the endorsement process by the executive committee at the expense of rank - and - file Conservatives who might not share the chairman's enthusiasm for Lazio, adding: «Nobody should anticipate the outcome of the votes at either party's convention; many of the largest - weighted Conservative counties are squarely behind Steve Levy.»

The M.T.A. has been planning to use the revenue produced by the tax to underwrite its application for a $ 2.2 billion low - interest loan from the Federal Railroad Administration.

Lhota said the MTA needs to start «thinking outside the box» as it grapples with subway service delays caused by failing equipment and a coming «summer of hell» for Long Island Railroad commuters.

The Long Island Rail Road's deteriorating on - time performance «has become unacceptable,» according to state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, who on Thursday is issuing a report offering new details on the misery endured by LIRR commuters last year — the worst for the railroad since 1999.

And Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority officials warn that a separate plan to extend Metro Rail at the other end of the line into the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad terminal at the foot of Main Street also is imperiled by Trump's proposal to discontinue another funding source pegged for the $ 42 million project.

ELIZABETHTOWN A congressional candidate is calling for federal authorities to investigate the plan by a railroad company to store unused rail cars on 22 miles of tracks within the Adirondack Park.

WESTCHESTER, NY — For many Westchester residents, the most important public transportation system in the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which gets them into the city via the Metro - North Railroad, and then to their workplace in Manhattan by subway xxxxxxxxx.

«As such, PATH employees meeting certain eligibility requirements may file for and receive retirement and survivor benefits administered by the Railroad Retirement Board,» spokesman Michael Freeman added.

BY SAM SCHWARTZ Lower Manhattanites are getting «railroaded» (or should I say «trucked») and have been for a quarter century ever since an act of Congress dictated that tolls on the Verrazano Bridge should be collected only in the Staten Island - bound direction.

Federal regulators, meanwhile, are warning railroads that they face penalties if they fail to meet a Dec. 31 deadline for the implementation of positive train control technology, which can prevent collisions and excessive speed by automatically slowing and stopping trains.

Use of railroad corridors was taken out of consideration because there was not enough width for two lines and use is prohibited by state law.

Jameson also reacted to what he called «misleading and erroneous statements» made at the previous hearing by Rod Futerfas, attorney for the opponents, referring to contamination at CMRR's Cornell Street railroad yard in Kingston.

ALBANY, NY — Separate audits of Metro - North Railroad and the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) found they failed to properly manage overtime paid by funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), allowing abuses such as allowing some conductors to charge overtime for tasks such as washing up for work, New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli announced today.

Looking relaxed in jeans, a black T - shirt, and a sport coat, standing by himself at the edge of the stage before a solitary microphone, Sherman described the questions, many of the existential variety, that now loomed for him: How much of his life's course was determined that night by those railroad tracks?

It was formed in 1898 as the American Society for Testing and Materials, and its first decision was to approve the steel used for rails by the Pennsylvania Railroad.

Now, 140 years after the transcontinental railroad's nearly 2,900 kilometers of track first connected both U.S. coasts, a number of states are hoping for a second golden age of rail, this time fueled by the Obama administration's pledge of billions of stimulus dollars for high - speed railway development.

Examples from an 1899 handbook for railway surgeons provided instruction in medical techniques and railroad hazards, such as this image of the inside of an operating room during the amputation of the thigh by «the circular method».

For instance, a school may have higher tolerance for false alarms — students will lose a few minutes of instruction by ducking under their desks — but a railroad or a machinery assembly line may want to shut down operations only for the most high - certainty alerFor instance, a school may have higher tolerance for false alarms — students will lose a few minutes of instruction by ducking under their desks — but a railroad or a machinery assembly line may want to shut down operations only for the most high - certainty alerfor false alarms — students will lose a few minutes of instruction by ducking under their desks — but a railroad or a machinery assembly line may want to shut down operations only for the most high - certainty alerfor the most high - certainty alerts.

New York Times columnist Tom Friedman recently pointed out, for example, that unlike booms and busts caused by railroads, the internet and so on, this latest...

Mizuno: In a conventional method, railroad tracks and wagons were used for antenna transportation in radio interferometers with multiple antennas like ALMA, such as the Nobeyama Millimeter Array (NMA * Ended its scientific operations), and the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA * One of the large radio telescopes operated by the U.S. National Radio Astronomy Observatory) in New Mexico.

For instance, the last forests near the ancient Nabataean capital of Petra, in modern Jordan, were felled by the Ottoman Turks during construction of the Hejaz railroad just before World War I.

Thanks for stopping by... I'm currently retired from the Railroad Industry (Engineer / Transportation Superintendent) and play alot of golf with the exception of snow days & weekends.

In this western, cattlemen and wheat farmers tire of being bilked by a buyer with a monopoly on the only railroad in Texas and so endeavor to build their own town / railroad stop where sellers will receive a fair price for their goods.

The selection of Tubman, abolitionist and known for her amazing work of bringing slaves to freedom along the Underground Railroad, was made this week by Treasury Secretary Jack Lew.

«The artificially high freight rates maintained by the ICC for railroads enabled the trucking industry to grow by leaps and bounds.

«In a recent Runnymede Trust report commissioned by the NUT, called Visible and Invisible Barriers, Black, Asian and ethnic minority members reported structural barriers such as racism, including assumptions about capabilities based on racial / ethnic stereotypes which railroaded their ambitions for career progression and hastened their departure from the profession.

(Calif.) From life - saving techniques to the contributions of Chinese immigrants in building the railroad, K - 12 curriculum in California schools is set for a new wave of updates and additions under legislation signed over the past week by the governor.

Beginning his career in 1966 as a brakeman for the Western Maryland Railroad, he has devoted most of his professional life to helping young people learn by doing — connecting education to the opportunities, challenges, and many different rewards to be found through work.