Sentences with phrase «from railroad cars»

Hannigan, 72, recalls unloading produce from railroad cars when he was a college student.

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Today it's a conglomerate of dozens of companies from car insurance company Geico to underwear maker Fruit of the Loom to railroad giant Burlington Northern.

Berkshire Hathaway (brk - a) owns everything from ice cream parlors to railroads but there's only one business Warren Buffett describes as «the company that set my heart afire 66 years ago (and for which the flame still burns)» — car insurance giant Geico.

Eric graduated from the University of San Francisco with a degree in business marketing, and in 1986 with Stefano Bronzati he opened a 25 - seat restaurant in a railroad car in Salt Lake City named California C&R, which is short for chicken and ribs.

The inspection included Buffalo Southern Railroad in Hamburg and rail equipment inspectors examined 18 crude oil tank cars and found three non-critical defects, including end - of - car air hoses inadequate distances from rails and loose side safety rails.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is asking a federal agency to stop a railroad company from mothballing unused rail cars in the Adirondack Park.

Environmental groups are asking the Cuomo administration to stop a short line railroad from storing contaminated oil tanker cars on unused tracks near the Adirondack High Peaks.

Safety inspectors from the state Department of Transportation and the Federal Railroad Administration uncovered 95 defects in their most recent examination of rail cars and tracks across upstate New York.

The Adirondack Council is calling on billionaire investor and philanthropist Warren Buffett to remove his oil tanker railroad cars from the fragile, protected public forests of New York's Adirondack Park.

During the meeting, the Amtrak representative on the committee revealed the railroad would not favor passenger cars going in reverse from downtown for over a mile to be able to head west to Cleveland and Chicago.

In 1994, he invented a temporary bridge made from railroad flatbed cars that was used a year later to repair a section of an interstate highway in California that floods had destroyed.

Railroads would also be required to obtain advance approval from FRA for locations or circumstances where unattended cars or equipment may be left.

Such term shall not include railroad locomotives, railroad freight cars, railroad cabooses, railroad cars described in section 242 or covered under this title, railroad rights - of - way, or facilities that are covered or expressly exempted from coverage under the Fair Housing Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3601 et seq.).

On the plus side, the test car took everything from rugged railroad crossings to uneven brick streets in stride with its coil - spring suspension and gas - charged shock absorbers.

Q. i was curious to know if you would be able to answer this i am only getting 4100 a month from my union i do nt have a car not because of repo or anything like that but i am going to a different railroad and i need to get a car not the greatest credit but where do recomend i go

His railroad was an ambiguous maze: sometimes a delightful ride as in Cora's journey from Tennessee to Indiana, a trip comprised of luxurious seating, linen tables and a shining red engine; sometimes frightful and leading to a dead end as in the train brought her to North Carolina where there was no connection; and sometimes it was a frightening and crude means of transportation as in her escape from Ridgeway on the pump car that took her away from Indiana into an uncertain future.

He was honoring a commitment made before he had retired from the law to become a full - time writer: representing the family of a railroad brakeman killed when he was pinned between two cars.

The Napa Valley Wine Train purchased the cars from the Denver Rio Grande Western Railroad in 1987 and immediately began extensive restoration projects to refurbish and reimagine the cars.

Copper Canyon private railroad cars travel through an impressive 86 tunnels and over 38 bridges en route, as the train winds its way from sea level to an elevation of 8,000 feet.

The Calico Railroad is an original Denver and Rio Grande Narrow Gauge train from the early 1900s with several car configurations that has been an attraction at Knott's since 1952.

After graduating from Stuyvesant High School at 16, he had a variety of jobs — he worked on an oil tanker, on docks, and unloading railroad cars.

Coal from Appalachia rumbles into this port city, 150 railroad cars at a time, bound for the belly of the massive cargo ship Prime Lily.

During the four - week trial in August, lawyers for Amtrak and Union Pacific Railroad used videos from the train itself to argue that the lights and gate at the railroad crossing worked properly at the time of the accident, and the driver of the truck failed to respond to several whistle blasts from the train before smashing into the fourth car of the train in a fiery coRailroad used videos from the train itself to argue that the lights and gate at the railroad crossing worked properly at the time of the accident, and the driver of the truck failed to respond to several whistle blasts from the train before smashing into the fourth car of the train in a fiery corailroad crossing worked properly at the time of the accident, and the driver of the truck failed to respond to several whistle blasts from the train before smashing into the fourth car of the train in a fiery collision.

Moving large intermodal rail car containers from the railroad track to the yard for storage and truck drivers.