Sentences with phrase «feet of railroad track»

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I was in awe as I read the accounts of him bending steel bars, ripping huge telephone books in half, pulling cars and most sensational of all pulling a 72 1/2 - ton railroad car 112 feet down the track.

The Union Station master plan also envisions an expanded Metrorail station, an enhanced retail experience, new and refurbished Amtrak and commuter rail facilities, a rebuilt H Street bridge and a new community, Burnham Place, to be built on air - rights over the railroad tracks with some three - million square feet of new hotels, offices, residences and shopping.

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.