More good news from that economic stimulus bill that's poised to pump some serious money into green projects across the country: a big chunk of the funding will be used to create a huge
new railroad system.
Not exact matches
According to a fascinatingly nerdy deep dive into the subject in the
New Yorker, the current mania for the word «hack» all started way back in the 1950s at MIT, where members of the model
railroad club were already warning those «hacking on the electrical
system turn the power off to avoid fuse blowing.»
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.
It was not long before a man named Richard B. Sears of North Redwood, Minnesota, combined the
railroad, the telegraph, and the
new U.S. Rural Postal
system to create a giant
new network of merchandising — the mail order house.
As many as two - thirds of all commuter
railroads in the United States — including the LIRR — are on pace to miss a December deadline to have lifesaving positive train control technology operational on their
systems, according to a
new federal report.
Senator Carl L. Marcellino said, «The Long Island
Railroad is the busiest commuter train
system in the nation, hundreds of thousands of
New Yorkers rely on it every day to get to and from work.
Off topic questions the Long Island
Railroad and possible strike, the City's contingency plans and role in the event of a strike, whether the petitions supporting continued operation of horse carriages, with 40,000 signatures recently delivered to City Hall affect his thinking on the topic, what the 66 donors to Campaign for One
New York expect from the mayor, whether he plans to take any additional vacations this year, what initiatives Campaign for One
New York will next focus on, the status of the review of the 911
system upgrade and, concerning his trip to Italy, whether he is packed, whether he's packing his own bags and what food he is most looking forward to.
Executive Director Pat Foye and administrators of the PA's PATH
system were deemed eligible to collect pensions from both
New York and the federal
Railroad Retirement Board under a questionable «legal finding» by the authority's lawyers, sources said.
The Federal
Railroad Administration today announced a
new Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) intended to improve the integrity of passenger train exterior side door safety
systems.
The proposed rule is based on recommendations developed by the
Railroad Safety Advisory Committee's General Passenger Safety Task Force, and includes
new requirements for both powered and manual exterior side doors and door safety
systems on passenger trains.
The groundbreaking program encourages urban, suburban, and rural transit agencies to find
new, cost - effective ways to manage and maintain the condition of their
systems — everything from
railroad tracks and train stations to bus facilities and electrical equipment, resulting in improved
system safety and reliability.
Owned by the Fitzpatrick's who came to
New York over 30 year ago, the Fitzpatrick Grand Central Hotel is the place to stay for some authentic Irish hospitality, including an highly acclaimed traditional Irish Breakfast and the Wheeltapper Pub, which has been decorated with memorabilia from Ireland's
railroad system.
Most recently, Vitale has engaged with America's railways — a transportation
system identified with frontier passage, Manifest Destiny, and nostalgia — breathing
new life into discarded
railroad crossings by installing them on floors or standing them upright as architectural interventions.
Creating a
new energy infrastructure is more comparable to the creation of the
railroads, the inter-state highway
system, personal computers, the Internet, and the space program than it is to installing catalytic converters, installing scrubbers, or phasing out ozone - depleting chemicals.
Remember how we trained a generation for a
new, industrial economy by building a nationwide
system of public high schools; how we laid down
railroad tracks and highways across an entire continent; how we pushed the boundaries of science and technology to unlock the very building blocks of human life.
Cortlandt Station, a commuter train station on the Metro - North
railroad from
New York City, was recently renovated in 2009 with the addition of an extended overpass, new elevated waiting area, additional parking and access road, as well as a Clivus compost toilet syst
New York City, was recently renovated in 2009 with the addition of an extended overpass,
new elevated waiting area, additional parking and access road, as well as a Clivus compost toilet syst
new elevated waiting area, additional parking and access road, as well as a Clivus compost toilet
system.
Creating a
new energy infrastructure is more comparable to the creation of the
railroads, the interstate highway
system, personal computers, the Internet, and the space program than it is to installing catalytic converters and scrubbers, or phasing out ozone - depleting chemicals.
«For far too long, poor criminal defendants in
New York have been
railroaded by a public defense
system that did little more than process guilty pleas and ruin lives.»
Constant studying of construction and daily activities throughout the entire
railroad system of
New Jersey