Sentences with phrase «large railway»

She has created a large railway carriage suspended in mid-air in the centre of the atrium, adorned by mythical creatures taken from motifs in the architecture of the space.

There is a large railway network connecting most cities and towns.

On the other hand here in Baden - Württemberg we had a referendum recently, on whether to continue building a large railway station in the capital town.

Large railway projects in Central America in the late 1800s facilitated industrial banana production and trade [10], which was entirely based on «Gros Michel» bananas [8].

IN A MOVE that stunned the North American railway industry, the US Surface Transportation Board on March 17 ordered a freeze on all mergers of large railways.

About a year ago I took a closer look at Grupo Mexico (OTC: GMBXF), which owns a big chunk of Southern Copper Corp (NYSE: SCCO), along with owning FM Rail Holding, which is Mexico's largest railway.

CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAY CO., $ 100.65, Toronto symbol CNR, operates Canada's largest railway.

However, it was able to develop as a centre for trade with the more established East Coast cities; when the railway reached it in 1848, Chicago soon became the largest railway hub in the world.

At the time of completion it was the largest railway trestle in the world.

The 4.6 - hectare stretch of land found just a bit to the south from Estació Sants — the largest railway station in the area, which provides you with very convenient means of moving around the city (just like the nearby Placa d'Espanya)-- is taken by a very spectacular mixture of natural landscape and modern artistic vision.

Canada has the fifth - largest railway network in the world, or more than 44,000 kilometres of track used to transport about $ 280 billion worth of freight each year, according to RAC.

He acts as the representative plaintiff in a $ 1.75 billion class action against the Government of Canada, the Canadian Wheat Board and Canada's two largest railway companies CN and CP, alleging that 100,000 Western grain growers were overcharged for grain transportation for a quarter century.

About Blog The Illinois Railway Museum, America's Largest Railway Museum, a guide to the current operating schedules and fares, directions to the museum, and a complete roster of equipment.

For example, in 2009 he bought BNSF, the nation's largest railway company, in part because he foresaw rising longterm gas prices giving efficient rail lines an edge over gas - guzzling 18 - wheeler trucks in the business of moving freight.

Not exact matches

April 23 - Canadian National Railway Co on Monday posted a 16.2 percent fall in quarterly profit as operating expenses shot up during the harsh winter, and the country's largest railroad cut its 2018 outlook as capacity limits strained its ability to meet high demand.

• Ferrocarril Mexicano, Mexico's largest railroad operator, is close to reaching a deal to acquire Florida East Coast Railway, a Jacksonville, Fla. - based rail system operator, for more than $ 2 billion, including debt, according to Reuters.

The five - largest stocks traded in the Toronto Stock Exchange are the Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto - Dominion Bank, Bank of Nova Scotia, Suncor Energy and Canadian National Railway.

Originally, and somewhat unimaginatively, dubbed «American Hill» because of the large numbers of Americans who had settled there, this neighbourhood got an assist in establishing its affluent bona fides from the Canadian Pacific Railway.

The fight for Canadian Pacific Railway by its largest shareholder, Pershing Square Capital Management, epitomizes a growing problem with public company governance.

The groundbreaking ceremony was presided over by Indonesia's President Joko «Jokowi» Widodo, who signed an inscription on a large stone in Walini, a West Java town and location of one of the railway's eight stations.

Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. (TSX: CP): Fred Green was ousted after a bitter proxy fight between the railway and its largest shareRailway Ltd. (TSX: CP): Fred Green was ousted after a bitter proxy fight between the railway and its largest sharerailway and its largest shareholder.

There have been no new railways, but the government has funded everything from refurbishment of Montreal's largest bridges to replacing doorknobs in RCMP offices in Charlottetown.

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.

Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd said on Monday it had scrapped efforts to buy Norfolk Southern Corp (nsc), almost six months after it launched its unsolicited $ 28 billion bid for the fourth - largest U.S. railroad operator.

Railways say they have faced challenges due to a larger - than - expected grain crop and extreme winter weather.

To make matters worse, the remote destination largely lacked pre-existing venues and infrastructure suitable for hosting the games — hence, the $ 10 billion price tag attached to the largest project: a road and railway link built to take passengers from Sochi's coast to Krasnaya Polyana, a mountain resort that hosted the ski and snowboarding events.

99 «Belkomur nashyol investor» [Belkomur found investors], Gudok, May 30, 2017, http://www.gudok.ru/newspaper/?ID=1375080&archive=2017.05.30; «Proekty stroitel «stva «Belkomura» i glubokovodnogo porta predstavleny ministerstvam i krupnym korporatsiyam KNR» [«Belkomur» and the deep water port construction projects were presented to ministries and large corporations of the PRC], Government of Arkhangelsk Oblast, September 4, 2017, http://dvinanews.ru/-rar64b74; Thomas Nilsen, «Railway, Port on Agenda for China's Vice Premier in Arkhangelsk,» Independent Barents Observer, March 27, 2017, https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/industry-and-energy/2017/03/railway-port-agenda-chinas-vice-premier-arkhangelsk.

Sudan — Ethiopia Transport Corridor), consisting of a large port, a railway, oil pipelines, highways, international airports and cities, is a massive undertaking.

According to J.P. Morgan, in December and January, China announced tax benefits on interest income for railway bondholders, issued bonds for railway projects, and injected cash into the two largest train makers.

Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. approached CSX Corp. about a combination that would unite two of North America's largest railroad operators, said people briefed on the matter, as the boom in North American energy reshapes the railroad industry.

CALGARY — TransCanada Corp. is moving ahead with a $ 12 - billion plan to ship western oil to Quebec and the East Coast — the largest project in the company's history and one it compares to the Canadian Pacific Railway in its economic impact for the country and trade benefits overseas.

Part of his time was spent with other prisoners quarrying a large cutting for the railway, which would earn the macabre name «Hellfire Pass», so called because the sight of emaciated prisoners working by torchlight resembled a scene from hell.

A railway chaplain has sympathised with rail passengers who traveled on the first working day of 2018 and were hit with the largest fare rise in five years.

As the large communications empires become more centralized and more powerful, they also become more self - serving, until today — as with the great iron and steel and railway and oil trusts in the l890s — they threaten the welfare of the entire society.

More than 25 large - scale model railway trains and trolleys — including American steam engines and streetcars from the late 1800s to modern - day freight and high - speed passenger trains — travel across rustic bridges, along overhead trestles, through tunnels and past waterfalls that cascade into flowing creeks.

During the Victorian railway boom the railways expanded, and by the turn of the century Shepparton was central to a large network of regional branch lines on the Toolamba — Echuca railway line — lines leading to Cobram, Nathalia, Dookie, Picola and Katamatite.

Such perverse incentives have played a large part in our current predicament: whereas a Victorian railway investor whose project failed would have lost his shirt, too often corporate managers receive large rewards with no risk.

«This community's ability to reclaim and redevelop the Bethlehem site is critical to regional development efforts, and this railway project should prove to be a key element in the larger effort.»

Labour is effectively saying that Britain's civil servants will be able to renationalise the railways, water utilities, the National Grid, Royal Mail, create regional public energy companies, a National Education Service and a National Care Service, create a large National Investment Bank and regional development banks, build a million homes and abolish tuition fees - to name just a few - at the same time as managing Brexit negotiations and their fallout.

And it's a railway system that is efficient to connect us to the Sahel and hopefully will one day connect us to the larger West African project that is in view».

Although large freight railway traffic (measured in carloads) is down 19 percent this year due to the recessed economy, it grew 47 percent between 1990 and 2007, and railroads have been more fuel - efficient than trucking for at least the past few decades, according to the Association of American Railroads.

A Union Pacific railway line crosses the lake, dividing it into a smaller north arm and a larger south arm, with the line drawn right at the base of the bunny - ear - like northern extensions of the lake.

Potential future areas of applications include electronic books or the large - scale displays used in railway stations and shopping centres.

When Tsanko reports a large amount of money on the railway track, government press officer Julia Staykova (Margarita Gosheva) sees an opportunity to deflect awkward questions about corruption.

Together with IMC, the national railway network operator and one of the largest employers in New Zealand's transportation industry developed a modern learning system.

Despite the large destruction, the railway and mine were out of service for only a month.

Canadian National Railway Co., Toronto symbol CNR, operates Canada's largest freight - rail network and serves 16 U.S. states.

CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAY CO. (Toronto symbol CNR; www.cn.ca) operates the largest freight rail network in Canada.

The town is also home of Norfolk Naval Base, the largest naval base in the world and the Norfolk Southern Railway.

But the company also is the outright owner of BNSF Railway, the second largest freight railroad network in North America, as well as some other companies you may have heard of, including Dairy Queen and Fruit of the Loom.