Sentences with phrase «of railway cars»

Henry Huttleston Rogers came up with the machinery by which naphtha could be separated from crude oil and was also the guy who thought of using long pipelines to transport oil instead of railway cars.

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The U.S. - based Railway Supply Institute, whose members build more than 95 per cent of all North American tank cars and lease more than 70 per cent, said about 55,000 new tank cars will have been put in service between 2011 — when the new voluntary safety standards were adopted — and 2015.

The Railway Association of Canada did not agree to an interview Wednesday but responded with a cautiously worded statement saying «a three - year phase - out for legacy tank cars marks an important step toward a fleet of cars that will enhance safety.»

In the 1880s, the most sophisticated railroad managers and some economists argued that railroads were «natural monopolies,» the inevitable consequence of an industry that required huge investments in rights of way over land, constructing railways, and building train engines and rail cars.

In 2008, the company built its most recent Indian plant in the city of Vadodara, making it the first multinational with the capacity to manufacture complete railway cars in India.

In his book «Irrational Exuberance», Robert Shiller, an economist at Yale University, tracks the p - e ratio of America's S&P 500 over 120 years, a period that covers huge technological change: America's railway boom, electricity, telephones, radio and cars.

Keith Stewart, a climate and energy campaigner with Greenpeace Canada who has examined the increased use of oil trains, criticized railways in Canada and the United States for continuing to use older oil tank cars that he said were found to be unsafe more than 20 years ago.

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada also recently released a new set of recommendations, related to its Lac - Megantic investigation, to improve oversight of dangerous routes and replace aging railway tank cars.

National Bank analysts Travis Wood, Dan Payne and Brian Milne said in the note they were watching to see if more oil was moving out of Alberta and Saskatchewan on railway cars to clear out of the glut of crude in storage in Western Canada, which has weighed on domestic oil prices and producers.

A railway - car fire in the town of Godhra, which killed a number of Hindu pilgrims, erupted into a weeks - long concerted massacre directed against Muslims throughout the state.

He filled eight railway tank cars with pure artesian drinking water, equipped them with multiple faucets and drinking cups on chains and strung them out along a track of their own.

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The Democrat announced Tuesday that the Department of Environmental Conservation is filing a petition to the Surface Transportation Board seeking to stop Saratoga and North Creek Railway from leasing its tracks for storage of unused rail cars.

However, during the winter of 1978 — 79 there were widespread strikes among lorry drivers, railway workers, car workers and local government and hospital workers in favour of higher pay - rises that caused significant disruption to everyday life.

Iowa Pacific Holdings wants to charge fees to store hundreds of outdated tanker cars to subsidize its money - losing Saratoga and North Creek Railway.

ALBANY The state Department of Environmental Conservation has sent a cease and desist letter to the railway that is transferring rail cars to the Adirondacks for storage.

The president of Saratoga & North Creek Railway is using music to defend his company's decision to store train tank cars on the company's line in the Adirondacks.

As the Saratoga and North Creek Railway plans to bring in revenue by storing train cars from other companies, environmental organizations are calling for the state to reject the plan in the interest of preserving the Adirondack Park.

If the government is going to meet its emissions targets, it must get more people out of their cars and on to the railways.

Families and football fans will be given no choice but to get into their cars, pump more CO2 into the atmosphere and put up with potentially eye - watering levels of congestion because the railways remain shut.»

Over the course of the year, controversy has flared over Iowa Pacific Railway and its subsidiary the Saratoga North Creek Railroad's storage of rail cars on sidings in the Adirondacks.

Schumer is calling on the Federal Railway Administration and Department of Transportation to require railroads to stop using or retrofit the standard DOT 111 tank car for moving petroleum products - he says those cars account for 69 percent of all tank cars.

Aside from the BRT, the plan also includes $ 231.7 million to replace the Staten Island Railway's 64 cars, which date back to the early 1970s, as part of $ 386 million in improvements for the line.

«That's one of the strategies: electric cars, more railways, more subways to replace oil - driven transportation,» says CREIA's Li Junfeng.

The subjects reached the outpost at 2650 meters altitude almost effortlessly, by cog railway and cable car, and once there could only take the same number of steps each day that they were accustomed to taking at home, as monitored with a pedometer.

The complete system, called Metro, will be an integrated network of underground and surface railways, shuttle buses and an improved freeway (motorway) system with new routes, high - technology aids to improve traffic flow, some toll roads, and «car pool» lanes reserved for vehicles carrying more than one person.

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From Alan Furst, whom The New York Times calls «America's preeminent spy novelist,» comes an epic story of romantic love, love of country, and love of freedom — the story of a secret war fought in elegant hotel bars and first - class railway cars, in the mountains of Spain and the backstreets of Berlin.

Purchase Eraser allows you to redeem your miles for a wide range of travel purchases including (but not limited to): airline tickets, hotel stays, railway tickets, cruises, rental cars, time shares, and much more.

The card offers three points for a dollar spent on all kinds of travel and commute, including gas, airfare, hotels, cruises, car rental agencies, travel agencies, railways, public transportation, tolls, taxis, parking and even vacation rentals, like Airbnb.

Ground transportation: Discover's definition of ground transportation here includes local and suburban commuter transportation such as: ferries, passenger railways, taxis, limousines, rental cars and charter / tour bus lines.

They believe as Albert Schweitzer has clearly stated in a quotation that, «when so much mistreatment of animals continue, when the cries of thirsty beasts from our railway cars die out unheard, when so much brutality prevails in our slaughterhouses, and when animals meet a painful death from unskilled hands, when animals suffer incredibly from merciless men, then we ALL bear the guilt of it».

Purchase Eraser allows you to redeem your miles for a wide range of travel purchases including (but not limited to): airline tickets, hotel stays, railway tickets, cruises, rental cars, time shares, and much more.

If you don't feel like walking, you can ride to the bottom and back again on the thrilling and steep Scenic Railway, or glide between the cliff tops and gaze at the rainforest canopy through the glass floors of the Scenic Skyway or giant aerial cable cars of the Scenic Cableway.

Following a flight to Delhi from the UK, or the end of your Great Rail Journeys» tour, transfer to the railway station early this morning by private car and board the Shatabdi Express for Amritsar.

In downtown Yountville, a series of 100 - year old train cars that have been converted into overnight rooms that make up the Napa Valley Railway Inn....

Other things I would not have missed were the views of Lake Achensee when going up in the cable car, the journey on the Zillertal Railway and visit to Mayrhofen, and the trip I was able to make to Innsbruck on our free day.

By the time we crossed the viaduct over the river Boyne, I was sitting at the desk in my compartment, imagining myself one of the railway - borne statesmen — Ferdinand Foch, commander in chief of the Allies, perhaps — who patrolled the Western Front in converted Wagons - Lits dining cars during World War I.

As well as a method of getting around the island, the railway is something of a tourist attraction in its own right, particularly due to its unusual second - hand rolling stock, which include former tube cars from the London Underground.

Alternatively take in a movie at the Garden Route Mall or visit the Railway Museum with its collection of old trains and vintage cars.

Six VIP customers got the privilege to experience the splendor of travelling in first air - conditioned saloon car introduced by the Indian railways.

Day 6: Leaving Canberra we head onto the Blue Mountains and Katoomba, its Three Sisters, Scenic Railway and Cable Car; a most impressive part of the world.

Clovelly was designed to be secluded from the everyday noises of passing cars and local railway tracks to truly entrench your senses into your game.

Meiringen's position in the heart of the Swiss Alps is perfectly positioned for exploring the surrounding region, which is filled with interesting towns, villages, mountain railways, cable cars and mountain peaks.

These days a road runs alongside the railway with a huge parking house as cars have nowhere to go — nor are they allowed to go anywhere — on any of the islands.

A short stroll from Nairobi railway station, the Railway Museum has a fascinating collection of relics from the heyday of the Lunatic Express - from restaurant car menus to the claws of the Tsavo maneaters themrailway station, the Railway Museum has a fascinating collection of relics from the heyday of the Lunatic Express - from restaurant car menus to the claws of the Tsavo maneaters themRailway Museum has a fascinating collection of relics from the heyday of the Lunatic Express - from restaurant car menus to the claws of the Tsavo maneaters themselves.

Enjoy a breathtaking means of a mountain railway or cable cars.

Press release generated by the Oregon Coast Historical Railway in Coos Bay Fans of the tricked - out vintage railroad maintenance cars known as «speeders» should be on the lookout for their return to South Coast communities on Saturday, Sept. 12...

Nearby, the scenic railway and skyway cable car are two attractions that will literally take your breath away as they sweep you down to the valley floor or hang you suspended high above the canyon of the Jamison.

Comprising two towers, the premier hotel offers 349 guestrooms and suites in the west of the city, approximately 15 minutes by car from the Changzhou Railway and Airport.