Sentences with phrase «by railroad tracks»

I wanted to see that cute little town again with the college by the railroad tracks.

Or leave them next to a mailbox...... by the railroad tracks...... or in a dumpster.

As industry seeded the American landscape with rows of metallic factories — followed by railroad tracks and then high - speed roads — the education of workers had to match progress.

He told them about his maternal grandmother, who competed in bathing beauty contests in Los Angeles in the 1930s and was found naked and unconscious by railroad tracks after one such contest.

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?

Bordered by railroad tracks and Ley Creek, it is a wild shoreline area in Syracuse that roughly parallels the access road at Carousel Center.

In the other direction, a Kraft plant puffs out steam by the railroad tracks.

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.

Not exact matches

The stats are fairly staggering: four million miles of public roads, 140,000 miles of railroad tracks operated by freight carriers, 25,000 miles of navigable waterways, 9,800 coastal and inland waterway facilities, and 5,200 public - use airports, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

We are also fortunate to be served by two Class I railroads and 24 short - line companies, giving our state the No. 7 rank in rail mileage, with nearly 5,000 miles of railroad track, the largest railroad network in the Southeast.

Its railroad, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, is one of the largest in the country, raking in $ 23 billion in revenue last year by operating on a track network of 32,500 miles in 28 states and three Canadian provinces.

, 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.

By 1900, the city's stockyards occupied 475 acres, contained 50 miles of roads and contained a perimeter of 130 miles of railroad track.

In 2018 we'll never go on a quest down some railroad tracks to find a dead body like in Stand By Me.

There are the railroad tracks right there to the south, the Warrior River to the north, McFarland Blvd to the east and the rest surrounded by a lot of residential that would expensive and a headache to acquire.

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.

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.

Kendall Park, just north of the Burlington Northern Railroad tracks, was the original preferred site, but, after being bombarded by complaints from residents, officials backed off from building a skate park in any neighborhood park.

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.

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 project will reduce delays associated with service disruptions by giving the railroad flexibility to go around obstacles that it can not currently in single track territory.

The deterioration of Penn Station's infrastructure that resulted in Long Island Rail Road commuters» «summer of hell» was caused by decades of underinvestment in Amtrak by the federal government and the railroads that use its tracks, including the LIRR, transportation experts said.

The MTA has said that storing equipment between tracks is often employed by railroads because it can make repairs quicker.

Hawkins says that his accent is native to a particular neighborhood of San Mateo, between the railroad tracks and the Bayshore freeway, which had been settled mostly by people from the South, whites and blacks.

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.

NEWCOMB — Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve appealed to Governor Andrew Cuomo to take action on a proposal by a private rail company to store hundreds of discarded oil tank cars on railroad tracks in the High Peaks.

Bernardo said that her interest in returning to public office was mainly piqued by the controversy over what to do with the Kingston section of the old Catskill Mountain Railroad tracks.

This aerial photo shows the 36 - acre parcel known as Murphy's Island, the roughly triangular area bounded by Onondaga Lake and the railroad tracks.

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.

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.

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.

Soon after, there were four transcontinental lines, and by 1890, over 125,000 miles of track, and more than 1,000 different railroads blanketed the United States, transporting passengers to even the most remote towns, from coast to coast.

Like most cities, Salt Lake has a clear divide between the «have's» and the «have not's» — it's even marked by the classic railroad track separating the affluent east side from the low - income west.

FRA plans to issue an additional NPRM based on the consensus recommendations of the Securement Working Group and approved by the full RSAC that would prohibit certain unattended freight trains or standing freight cars on main track or sidings and require railroads to adopt and implement procedures to verify securement of trains and unattended equipment for emergency responders.

Kids continue to be enchanted by stories featuring Barnes & Noble's exclusive Read to Me ™ feature, with Are You My Mother, Go Dog Go, I Saw an Ant on the Railroad Track and Little Red Hen the current category bestsellers.

The sludge - gray Onandaga River divided the city as it met Lake Erie beneath a steel bridge: the valley carved by the river was a treeless expanse of railroad tracks, boxcars, refineries, cranes, chemical plants, and, looming over all of this, the smokestacks of the steel mills — squat, black, and enormous — on which Steelton's existence had once depended.

All the dying that summer began with the death of a child, a boy with golden hair and thick glasses, killed on the railroad tracks outside New Bremen, Minnesota, sliced into pieces by a thousand tons of steel speeding across the prairie toward South Dakota.

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.»

Bordered by University Avenue on the south, the Pierce Butler Railroad Tracks on the north, Lexington Parkway on the west and Rice Street on the east, Frogtown is among the most diverse communities in St. Paul.

Having been told when and where to assemble to board the train, when the appointed time came, we were greeted by a stern, rather bossy «take - no - nonsense» railroad lady, who showed us to our reserved seats in the train - the famous Notch train which travels on tracks that were laid in the 1870s as part of the Maine Central Railroad's famed Mountain Divisirailroad lady, who showed us to our reserved seats in the train - the famous Notch train which travels on tracks that were laid in the 1870s as part of the Maine Central Railroad's famed Mountain DivisiRailroad's famed Mountain Division line.

This early American narrow gauge railroad from a bygone era are the same railway tracks taken by old west miners, cowboys and early settlers dating back to the 1800's.

The game also rewards players with a special achievement trophy called «Dastardly» which is unlocked by placing a hogtied woman on the railroad tracks and then watching as she is splattered by an oncoming train.

Following the events of Phantom Hourglass, Link, Tetra, and the other pirates come across a new land that is ruled over by the Spirits of Good, who were responsible for sealing the land's tyrant, Malladus, into the earth after the concourse of the Spirit War with the railroad tracks called Spirit Tracks that spiral and work their way all over the vibrant landtracks called Spirit Tracks that spiral and work their way all over the vibrant landTracks that spiral and work their way all over the vibrant landscape.

Artyom and the remainder of the Spartan collective primarily make this trek by means of mountains, forests, and even deserts alongside the railroad tracks.

By 1974, Judd purchased what remained of a former Army compound between Marfa's main highway and the Southern Pacific Railroad Track, referring to this space as both The Block, because the property takes up a whole city block, and La Mansana de Chinati, in reference to the Chinati Mountains south of Marfa.

A motorized pilot's ejection seat continuously circles a railroad track enclosed by a fence from a soccer field in this installation created specifically for SFMOMA.

Viewers are enveloped by the strength of the corroded, metallic tracks considering the magnitude of industry, migration, and power associated with the railroad these lines served as skeleton.

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.