Sentences with phrase «miles by rail»

After all, it's perfectly legal to dig up coal, transport it thousands of miles by rail and ship, and burn it for electricity.

I reported at the time that the surface - mined coal was «transported 780 miles by rail to Vancouver, shipped down the Pacific Coast, through the Panama Canal and across the Caribbean to Massachusetts,» at a price competitive with Appalachian coal.

Plans to ship coal 1,500 miles by rail to five planned new ports in the Pacific Northwest and Canada face intense environmental opposition.

«Each year with the current plant,» said Capt. Kenneth Branch, commanding officer of Naval Facilities and Engineering Washington (NAVFACWASH), «we're moving 46 million pounds of coal more than 400 miles by rail, barge, and truck to Indian Head.»

«I have had occasion to travel more than ten thousand miles by rail since that morning.

Not exact matches

We are also fortunate to be served by two Class I railroads and 24 short - line companies, giving our state the No. 7 rank in rail mileage, with nearly 5,000 miles of railroad track, the largest railroad network in the Southeast.

Services from Queen Square Bus Station in Liverpool city centre — 19, 20, 21, 310, 345 Services from St John's Lane — 919 Services from Liverpool ONE Bus Station — 26 (walk from Everton Valley) Service from St John's Lane (opposite Lime Street Station on match days only) 919 Other services which don't operate via the City Centre but serve Goodison Park include - 68/168 (Bootle - Aigburth Vale) and 62/162 (Crosby / Bootle - Penny Lane) * - service operates evenings and Sundays only BY TRAIN The closest rail station is Kirkdale on the Northern Line, which is approximately 1 mile from Goodison Park.

The analysis of the proposal to double the Metro Rail's existing 6.4 mile system demonstrates why the project should be embraced by the new administration, he said.

He said the pipeline would not reduce the controversial shipment of Bakken oil by rail or barge, adding that statistics from the Federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration showed that pipelines had a higher spill rate per mile than any other form of oil transportation.

The projects funded by the package will be delivered by the Cycle Rail Working Group and by Sustrans, the charity responsible for co-ordinating the National Cycle Network across the UK, which is now over 13,500 miles long.

The Buffalo Metro Rail, also operated by the NFTA, is a 6.4 miles (10.3 km) long, [citation needed] single line light rail system that extends from Erie Canal Harbor in downtown Buffalo to the University Heights district (specifically, the South Campus of University at Buffalo) in the city's northeastern pRail, also operated by the NFTA, is a 6.4 miles (10.3 km) long, [citation needed] single line light rail system that extends from Erie Canal Harbor in downtown Buffalo to the University Heights district (specifically, the South Campus of University at Buffalo) in the city's northeastern prail system that extends from Erie Canal Harbor in downtown Buffalo to the University Heights district (specifically, the South Campus of University at Buffalo) in the city's northeastern part.

ELIZABETHTOWN A congressional candidate is calling for federal authorities to investigate the plan by a railroad company to store unused rail cars on 22 miles of tracks within the Adirondack Park.

The third track, first discussed 68 years ago, is expected to allow the LIRR to run more trains in both directions, increasing capacity on a 9.8 - mile rail stretch between Floral Park and Hicksville used by 40 percent of LIRR passengers.

The 9 - mile Rail Trail corridor is owned by Albany County and is a shared - use path that accommodates all types of non-motorized traffic.

The Obama administration would like to see Americans riding on more than 16,000 miles of high speed rail lines by the middle of the century.

1,200 - 1,800 Energy requirements, in Btu, to transport a passenger one mile by high - speed rail, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation.

1 Percentage of all passenger intercity trips of more than 50 miles made by rail in the United States.

For example, by utilizing electric and clean diesel power technologies, rail can result in lower pollutant and greenhouse gas emissions per passenger - mile than other modes of travel.

By depressing a 2.25 - mile downtown stretch of the rail corridor into a 1.75 - mile - long, 54 - foot - wide by 33 - foot - deep trench, the ReTRAC project resolved numerous environmental, public health, and safety issueBy depressing a 2.25 - mile downtown stretch of the rail corridor into a 1.75 - mile - long, 54 - foot - wide by 33 - foot - deep trench, the ReTRAC project resolved numerous environmental, public health, and safety issueby 33 - foot - deep trench, the ReTRAC project resolved numerous environmental, public health, and safety issues.

By 2023, the system will grow from 16 to 50 miles and the existing light rail fleet will triple in size from 62 to 180 vehicles.

In 2012, a 45 - mile commuter rail line from Salt Lake City to Provo opened, and Utah's ridership on commuter rail lines increased by 103 %.

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I did get a few shots by leaning out over the railing on the right, but with 80 - mile an hour winds, it's not easy — and you can easily loose a camera (or phone) that way.

Designated the only bike - friendly city in San Diego County by the League of American Bicyclists, Oceanside is home to two bike trails: - San Luis Rey Bike Trail: Path along San Luis Rey River from College Blvd to Downtown Oceanside - Coastal Rail Trail (Starts around Broadway and Vista Way) heads south 44 miles into San Diego

Just imagine setting off and knowing that, for the next 53 days, you will be taken 23,000 miles round the entire globe on famous international rail networks, by air and by coach, not only visiting, but actually getting to know, a vast diversity of countries and being able to experience, as you pass through or stop to explore them, all the astounding differences in landscape and culture of each one.

Four hundred miles, 86 tunnels, 38 bridges and some of the most spectacular scenery and sightseeing you will ever do by rail, this round trip rail car tour carves through breathtaking and naturally isolated Copper Canyon.

Just off Interstate 5 five miles south of Seattle - Tacoma International Airport in suburban Des Moines, Wash., is the newly opened Four Points by Sheraton Seattle Airport South; it's also convenient to Boeing's Renton plant, Amazon's HQ, and the Link light rail station into downtown Seattle.

Located in Waltham, a suburb about 12 miles to the west of Boston, the museum enjoyed no foot traffic; you could get there by commuter rail, but most of our visitors came by car, they didn't just drop by.

It calls for a revenue - neutral carbon price, a 10 million person «clean energy workforce,» a 65 miles per gallon average fuel economy for cars and trucks by 2025, the construction of a nationwide high - speed rail network, a ban on oil drilling offshore and in the Arctic, and a phaseout of subsidies to the fossil fuel industry — all top items on environmentalists» wish lists.

The shipping costs to transport the ethanol by rail to the Northwest will also slightly decrease the already marginal improvement in petrloleum and fossil energy use per mile travelled on ethanol relative to gasoline.

The Guardian reports that the two - mile long Belgian solar rail tunnel was specifically built to protect trains from falling trees on a high - speed rail link that runs by an ancient forest.

Still, even if we end up making car ownership obsolete in cities, and even if bike and trike deliveries become the mode - of - choice for last - mile delivery needs, we're still going to need to get stuff into our dense, livable urban centers, and not all of it will be possible by rail.

The major spill, the first since the start of a boom in North American crude - by - rail transport three years ago, came when 14 cars on a 94 - car Canadian Pacific train left the tracks about 150 miles northwest of Minneapolis near the town of Parkers Prairie, the Otter Tail Sheriff's Department said.

Privatized by president Carlos Menem in the 90s, the Argentine rail network went from 50,000 kilometers (31,000 miles) in the 1980s to an 80 % reduction in the 2000s.

The leak - the first major spill of the modern North American crude - by - rail transit boom - came when 14 cars on a 94 - car Canadian Pacific train left the tracks about 150 miles north west of Minneapolis near the town of Parkers Prairie, the Otter Tail Sheriff's Department said.

Tesla says that a diesel truck is 20 percent more expensive to run per mile, and that running an Autopilot - powered convoy of Semis is even more economical than transporting cargo by rail, while also being 10 times safer than having the vehicles manned by human drivers.

Decisions were made to turn down dollars for both high speed rail — defined by the federal government as trains that move at 110 miles per hour or far slower than the California project and European trains — as well as money for higher speed rail, where trains move slower, but are still quicker than cars.

A 2009 study by University of North Texas (UNT) economists Terry Clower and Bernard Weinstein projected that a planned 45 - mile expansion of DART, Dallas Area Rapid Transit, doubling the reach of the rail line by 2013, would generate $ 4 billion in development between 2009 and 2014.

Property values for single - family homes within a half - mile of light rail stations in south Minneapolis are, on average, $ 5,000 higher than comparable homes in a control group, according to research by the University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies.

Light rail service spanning 48 miles makes commuting easy, and Denver is expanding its light rail service by almost 100 miles, adding lines to service the nearby University of Colorado.