Sentences with phrase «major railroad»

The city was founded as a railroad hub and became the junction of three major railroad systems, including the Wilmington and Manchester, the Northeastern, and the Cheraw and Darlington.

Sumter had its roots as a railroad repair center, and expanded into a major railroad transportation hub in the 20th century.

Once an important transportation hub due to its proximity to two major railroad lines, Corinth is now home to a number of small businesses representing many different industries.

The city of Havre, which served as a major railroad service center for the Great Northern Railway, is the eighth largest city in Montana.

Because the Hampton attorney he first retained did not have trial experience with railroad injury cases, the victim decided to retain our law firm because we have experience representing both railroad workers and handling major railroad and train derailment accidents in court.

Successful representation of the service / maintenance contractor for a fleet of railroad locomotives in a four - week AAA arbitration hearing before a three - judge AAA tribunal achieving a $ 70 million award against a major railroad for breach of a long - term maintenance contract.

It's also the headquarters of major railroad company CSX.

Once a major railroad town, Altoona's economy is now centered around the healthcare, retail and service industries.

From there the Blanks proceeded to Chop, a major railroad center where the U.S.S.R. borders Hungary and Czechoslovakia, where they had to stop for four days for final processing.

It could also trigger a «final round of major railroad mergers, involving possibly all six of the largest North American railroads» that could result in having just two major transcontinental carriers serving the US and Canada.

When Knight took the CFO job at Union Pacific in 2004, UP was the least profitable major railroad.

Buffett already had stakes in a few major railroads, but he wanted to own one outright.

Specifically, he wants Harrison to drive down CP's operating ratio — a key efficiency metric — because it's currently the worst among North America's major railroads.

As for rail transport, Chicago welcomes six of the seven major railroads and accounts for a quarter of the country's rail traffic.

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad (BNSF), which Berkshire acquired in 2009 for $ 44 billion, is one of seven major railroads in North America and carries 17 % of all inter-city freight.

Major railroads have pulled back from January highs, with smart money keeping powder dry while awaiting the outcome of NAFTA negotiations.

From the 1825 completion of the Erie Canal to the international border with Canada to current connectors such as major railroads, international bridges, state and federal highways, international airports and ports, the region continues to play a critical role in moving goods, expanding global trade and creating prosperity.

The Department oversees the safe operation of the United States transportation system including more than 3.9 million miles of public roads, 120,000 miles of major railroads, 25,000 miles of commercially navigable waterways, 5,000 public - use airports, 500 major urban public transit operators and more than 300 coastal, Great Lakes, and inland waterways ports.

UNP is down approximately 14.5 % YTD, which is similar to most other major railroads.

Nestled at the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains at the cross-section of two major railroads, the city was once the primary industrial center of the southern United States.

Not exact matches

The transportation company ships coal and industrial products on its railroad, serving every major port on the East Coast.

UPS is the largest customer of the major U.S. railroads.

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Union Pacific serves many of the fastest - growing U.S. population centers, operates from all major West Coast and Gulf Coast ports to eastern gateways, connects with Canada's rail systems and is the only railroad serving all six major Mexico gateways.

In the past decade, Berkshire has morphed from an insurance / investing vehicle for Buffett to a major conglomerate that owns everything from Dairy Queen to Fruit of the Loom to giant railroad company BNSF.

We are home to the world's busiest passenger airport and a top - ranked international air cargo hub, the fourth - busiest container terminal in the nation, two Class 1 railroads and six major interstate highways.

The city was carefully planned to be positioned along railroads, major transportation routes, and near Los Angeles.

The Bakken oil deposits, which are often drilled through hydrofracking, have become a major source of oil for the railroads to move because the deposits lack direct pipeline links.

...» It might well be that the major effect of the panic of 1873 was not to initiate a great depression, but to cause bankruptcies in overinflated banks and in railroads riding on the tide of vast government subsidy and bank speculation.»

If this deal goes through, it might be the first totally private ownership of a major American Railroad in the history of this country

He was one of the first major investors to realize that railroad firms had been making badly needed infrastructure investments that would eventually lead to robust growth and solid cash flow.

A number of modern urban newspapers, such as the Baltimore Sun, the Richmond Times — Dispatch, and the Hartford Courant ran advertisements before the Civil War for the sale of slaves or the recapture of runaways; all four of the major North American railroads own rail lines that were built with slave labor; the founder of Lehman Bros. bought slaves as workers for the firm when it was founded in pre — Civil War Alabama.

The major parcels along the trail belong to Commonwealth Edison and the Wisconsin Central railroad, and easements along those properties have already been negotiated, said Buffalo Grove Village Manager William Balling.

Our subway now has the worst on - time performance of any major transit system in the world, with the Long Island Railroad plagued with serious delays as well.

The federal government has made available $ 295 million to improve a Queens railroad bottleneck in Sunnyside and provide a major step in opening the way for high - speed rail from New York to Boston.

The Ulster & Delaware right - of - way, no matter who the operator is, is a valuable resource financially and recreationally as a railroad, as the Catskill Mountain Railroad's major events this fall haverailroad, as the Catskill Mountain Railroad's major events this fall haveRailroad's major events this fall have proven.

Located along the western shores of Lake Erie in Chautauqua County and The Seaway Trail, Westfield has direct access to Interstate 90, two major state highways and two railroads.

He sat down with the Burlington Northern Santa Fe, the major freight railroad in the West, as well as the union which represents its labor force, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen.

The Federal Railroad Administration announced Wednesday that it won't go ahead with a controversial plan to re-route a major rail artery in Connecticut and Rhode Island.

Uniformed and plainclothes presence at Grand Central Terminal and Penn Station as well has other major stations throughout the Metro - North Railroad and Long Island Railroad networks have been beefed up.

Governor Andrew Cuomo has made mass transit a major focus of late, holding a series of events over the past year regarding airport redevelopment, railroad expansion, new transportation hubs and vehicles, and more.

In a November 2007 interview with state news agency Xinhua, State Council's Wang claimed that «no major geological disasters or related casualties» had occurred since the reservoir's water level was raised in 2006; five days later, the earth in Badong crumbled and the railroad tunnel landslide wiped out the bus and its passengers.

So expansive were these railway medical systems that in 1896, just one railroad, the Missouri Pacific, treated more than 29,000 patients in its medical system and clinics, comparable to major metropolitan hospitals.

In sub-Saharan Africa, dozens of major «development corridors,» including roads, railroads, pipelines, and port facilities, are in the works to increase agricultural production, mineral exports, and economic integration.

When riding the Great Pumpkin Train, every child will be able to pick their own pumpkin The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, our nation's first common - carrier was one of the three major eastern trunk lines but also the weakest.

Yet, as Nobel Prize - winning economist Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman explained in Free to Choose, «the railroads were the major enterprises of the day.

This is the sixth agreement between the states and a host freight railroad for a major high - speed rail corridor funded under the Recovery Act, and it ensures that these grants will improve passenger rail service in North Carolina, while preserving the world class freight rail system we have today.»

An association of major freight railroads in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, Amtrak, and several short line holding companies committed to keeping the railroads of North America safe, fast, efficient, clean, technologically advances, and secure.

It favorably sits at the junction of two major highways and was once a heavily trafficked railroad stop.

Union Pacific Railroad has a facility in Mesquite designed to move cargo from other modes of transportation to train, and is a major employer.