Sentences with phrase «former railroad»

This is the densest network under development in the United States, and what makes it interesting is that the former railroad corridors here went to village centers — places where huge antediluvian mill complexes once produced heavy things.

We also connect up with the Monon Trail, which is a biking and walking path made from a former railroad track that leads from downtown Indianapolis all the way up to the northern suburbs.

Starved for green space, the surrounding neighborhood pushed the city to buy 42 acres of the former railroad property.

A former railroad yard, this urban park uses historical artifacts and exhibits to bring to life the controversial and danger - filled construction of the Hoosac Tunnel, one of the greatest engineering feats of the 19th century.

The New York Times is a raging inferno of art world scoops tonight with the paper's City Room blog revealing the High Line's ambitions to install Jeff Koons's Train over the former railroad tracks that have become a central draw to Manhattan and essential to the revival of the Meat Packing District, including the future site of the Whitney Museum:

In Cottage 1, a stained ceiling and exposed brick and beams are augmented by warm wood tones and a coffee table made from a former railroad freight cart.

Classrooms for the senior class were created in a former railroad depot and three railroad cars, which, at the suggestion of a teacher, were joined together to create a unique learning environment.

About a third of this trail is built on former railroad tracks, offering a mostly smooth and level ride for cyclists of all levels.

Both men spoke to reporters after touring the Walkway Over the Hudson, a former railroad trestle that was turned into a pedestrian bridge connecting trails in Dutchess and Ulster counties.

The Buffalo Common Council will consider a pair of zoning changes to allow a new Family Dollar store in the Fillmore District and a commercial development on a narrow sliver of former railroad land in Larkinville.

With the findings due at the end of April, it appears decision makers have whittled things down to two sites — the city's former railroad hub the Central Terminal or Canalside near the downtown waterfront.

Undeterred, the former railroad executive set about forging labor peace, pushing operational improvements and drawing up turnaround plans.

Not exact matches

Saloner, citing the wrongful termination lawsuit by a former professor who alleges the dean railroaded him out of the business school while sleeping with his wife, announced his resignation last month, on the same day Poets & Quants published a lengthy expose based on the lawsuit and the professors» divorce.

Sidewalk's CEO Daniel Doctoroff has some experience rebuilding cities already: He is a former New York City deputy mayor who rezoned swaths of that city for urban housing and development projects, including the area of Manhattan's West Side currently being redeveloped above railroad tracks, Hudson Yards.

Their first move was to replace Heinz's long - serving chief executive officer, William Johnson, with Bernardo Hees, a former Brazilian railroad executive who had most recently run Burger King.

Originally known as Pelican Rapids, but was later renamed after Frederic W. Rhinelander, a former president of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore and Western Railroad.

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

The fun: Chessie's was built around a former train depot, and they have an authentic 1920's Illinois Pullman Railroad Car that serves as a dining car.

Kathleen M. «Katie» Christianson, a former nurse at Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights, traveled the country in the 1950s as an attendant and nurse aboard the Northern Pacific Railroad.

He also added state support for another Metro Rail extension into the former Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Terminal that serves as home base for the system's light rail vehicles.

The other trial, including the former SUNY president and Louis P. Ciminelli of Buffalo, whose company was a partner in a now - abandoned plan to rebuild the Stamford railroad station, will start in May.

$ 1.8 million to the Wellsboro & Corning Railroad Co. for the restoration of main line railroad track and the reconstruction of a former second maiRailroad Co. for the restoration of main line railroad track and the reconstruction of a former second mairailroad track and the reconstruction of a former second main track.

And just this week, railroad advisory committee Chairman Mike Berardi, a former Democratic legislator from the Town of Ulster, resigned, charging closed - door meetings were aimed at discrediting the railroaders by the administration.

«they reject Labour's imposition, Keith Vaz railroading through his preferred candidate against the wishes of the local party and also the former MP.»

Congress approved the national park in December 2014 to honor Tubman, a former slave who became a leader of the Underground Railroad and led others on a path to freedom.

During the administration of former Supervisor Phil Cardinale in 2004, the Town Board implemented zoning that would only allow a multiplex theater in downtown Riverhead and Railroad Avenue.

As part of the South Buffalo BOA Implementation Strategy, BUDC commissioned an environmental assessment of the former Lehigh Valley Railroad property that borders Tifft Nature Preserve to the east and south.

A former colossus of the aforementioned steel, railroad, and shipping industries, Pittsburgh has been reinventing itself as a tech and services mecca, and the Ace's ambitiously pierced and tattooed staff, busy preparing Intelligentsia coffees and polishing bottles of locally sourced rye whiskey, suggest the transformation is proceeding apace.

The new site will be located between a former BNSF Railway railroad right - of - way on the west and 120th Avenue Northeast on the east, south of SR520 and north of Northeast 12th Street in the City of Bellevue.

Originally known as Pelican Rapids, but was later renamed after Frederic W. Rhinelander, a former president of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore and Western Railroad.

Richard Anderson, Former CEO of Delta Air Lines, is about to take over America's railroad at a time when it needs the most help.

The hotel was first built to serve railroad passengers who were on the forefront of a developing tourism industry and is one of several former Canadian Pacific luxury hotels.

The former grade of the narrow gauge North Pacific Coast Railroad follows the east shore of the bay

Watch an enthralling performance at the Charleston Music Hall, a former passenger station for the South Carolina Railroad, or laugh out loud at original performances by upcoming comedians at Theatre 99.

Disgraced Swedish detective, Gustaf Gustav, vows to find the killer amongst the other guests: a blind butler, a convicted murderer, the world's most famous actress, Tesla's former assistant, the son of a wealthy railroad magnate, and rival inventor Thomas Edison.

WWF may refer to: World Wide Fund for Nature, a nature conservation organization previously named World Wildlife Fund (and still using the former name in some markets) World Wrestling Federation, the name used from 1979 to 2002 by the professional wrestling company now known as WWE Welded wire fabric, a reinforcing material typically used in poured concrete slabs Working Women's Forum, an organisation in India World Water Forum, an international forum for water issues Windows Workflow Foundation, Microsoft's workflow management framework Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway, a former 2 foot gauge railroad in Maine, United States WWF (file format), a campaign to produce PDF electronic documents that forbid printing Words with Friends, a game for Apple and Android platforms Waterside Workers» Federation, a former Australian trade union, now the Maritime Union of Australia

When Marianne Vitale and Jannis Kounellis lay railroad tracks through a gallery, they connect a former shipping and manufacturing district to its past, while leaving implicit other histories.

In a former median parking lot on the railroad tracks smack in the middle of downtown West Palm Beach, the new Palm Beach Modern +...

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.

The new venue, a former New York Central Railroad freight train terminal housing five blocks of the original High Line, has 30 - foot high ceilings with varying levels of lofted space to be used for special projects.

Taking its name from one of Tillmans's photographs, the gallery is sited between two aboveground railroads and is part of a close group in Bethnal Green that includes the adjacent gallery Herald St, the much - loved bookshop Conor Donlon Books (owned by a former assistant of Tillmans's), and, across the road, Maureen Paley (which represents Tillmans).

Lucin's remains now include a bullet - ridden sign describing the former town and of course, the railroad.

Also on the horizon are the new Extreme Model Railroad and Contemporary Architecture Museum and the Global Contemporary Art Museum, both spearheaded by former Guggenheim director Thomas Krens and designed by Gluckman Tang.

Andre moved to New York in 1956 and shortly thereafter, he befriended Constantin Brancusi through former classmates Hollis Frampton and Frank Stella, and began working on the Pennsylvania Railroad — influences that inspired his attachment to working class ideals, order, and factory - finished materials.

Some of these efficiencies are part of the so - called «precision railroading» model, which includes cost cuts and improved service, pioneered by well - known industry executive Hunter Harrison, the former CEO of both CN and more recently CP.

Smith's former positions include Director of Government Relations for the Council for a Competitive Economy, senior economist for the Association of American Railroads, and Senior Policy Analyst at the EPA.

Greening Earth and Western Fuels worked in partnership with the Center for Energy and Economic Development (CEED), an industry group co-founded by railroad exec (and future Bush II treasury secretary) John Snow and Steve Miller, a top aide to former Kentucky Governor Brereton Jones.

The biography was written by Joseph R. Daughen, a retired reporter for the Philadelphia Daily News and author of earlier books about former Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo and the collapse of the Penn Central Railroad.

Representation of railroad testing company against former director of technology and his new employer for theft of trade secrets.

Originally known as Pelican Rapids, but was later renamed after Frederic W. Rhinelander, a former president of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore and Western Railroad.