Sentences with phrase «miles of railroad tracks»

The stats are fairly staggering: four million miles of public roads, 140,000 miles of railroad tracks operated by freight carriers, 25,000 miles of navigable waterways, 9,800 coastal and inland waterway facilities, and 5,200 public - use airports, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

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.

By 1900, the city's stockyards occupied 475 acres, contained 50 miles of roads and contained a perimeter of 130 miles of railroad track.

At last week's regular session, an issue was whether the legislature should specifically authorize the retention of 1.1 miles of railroad track between the end of Catskill Mountain Railroad's Kingston - to - West Hurley run and scenic overviews of the Ashokan Reservoir at the Glenford dike.

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In 1886 the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and the Missouri Pacific Railroad both built railroad tracks heading west from the Great Bend of the Arkansas River in Kansas to Greeley County on the western border, roughly 200 milRailroad both built railroad tracks heading west from the Great Bend of the Arkansas River in Kansas to Greeley County on the western border, roughly 200 milrailroad tracks heading west from the Great Bend of the Arkansas River in Kansas to Greeley County on the western border, roughly 200 miles away.

And 2,700 miles from June's office in San Francisco, in a low - rise building wedged between a strip mall and railroad tracks outside of Boston, another emotion - measuring pioneer named Rana — Rana el Kaliouby — has spent the past year and a half strategizing to make the facial - cue recognition company she co-founded, Affectiva, the essential hub of the emerging emotion economy.

Its railroad, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, is one of the largest in the country, raking in $ 23 billion in revenue last year by operating on a track network of 32,500 miles in 28 states and three Canadian provinces.

When a railroad track bed blocked their path, the two HSUS rescuers and the head of Beaumont's animal shelter got out of their boat and waded a mile in the brown water pouring through the neighborhood.

Where railroads had been obliged to maintain horses and riders every five miles along the track to race back and forth to warn engineers of impending collisions, the «singing wire» could now control the flow of trains, and not incidentally, their cargoes, so that whole new national distribution systems were possible.

The bridge would be designated as the only legal way for pedestrians to cross a mile - long segment of the railroad tracks.

The property is about a half - mile east of downtown Lemont and north of the Illinois Central Railroad tracks.

Hein is asking the legislature to exclude the 11.5 mile stretch of abandoned and unused railroad track through the Ashokan Reservoir area from the study.

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.

Initial — but not comprehensive — APA mapping research estimates some 800 miles of existing railroad beds or defunct railroad lines with tracks are scattered around the Adirondack Park.

* Decided to rip up some 15 miles of county - owned Catskill Mountain Railroad track between Phoenicia and Highmount without even informing the long - standing lessee.

Soon after, there were four transcontinental lines, and by 1890, over 125,000 miles of track, and more than 1,000 different railroads blanketed the United States, transporting passengers to even the most remote towns, from coast to coast.

As a technical research and test facility for the Federal Railroad Administration, TTCI can provide research and training opportunities using the facility's 50 miles of track, various rolling stock, and full - scale laboratory equipment.

In addition to beautiful beaches, East Lyme is home to the Niantic Bay Boardwalk, a one mile long walkway running parallel to the Amtrak railroad tracks and overlooking the beautiful Long Island Sound, and offers boutique shops, antique shops and a variety of restaurants.

The journey takes place over three hours and spans 8.9 miles of railroad as the track heads across creeks, canyons and dense stands of spruce and pine trees into the clouds.

Pacific Coast Highway, railroad tracks of the Coast Line, and the US Highway 101 freeway wind along the narrow strip of the county's north coast land at the base of the mountains for 12 miles (19 km) north to the Santa Barbara County line.

Miles and miles of twisted trash, railroad tracks in all directions.

Causes of Train Accidents There are over 600 railroads and 200,000 miles of track in the United States.

In another story on John Scheib, vice president of the legal division at Norfolk Southern — the eastern Virginia - headquartered railway that, on over 21,000 miles of track, operates in 22 states and the District of Columbia — Scheib jokes, «I couldn't even spell railroad when I got out of law school.»