Sentences with phrase «of the railroad tracks on»

The absence of the railroad tracks on the map seem to support the claim that the game is set further into the past, as do the presence of caravan camps and settlements, in addition to the towns.

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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.

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.

Midland County, where the largest number of Midland basin permits have been issued, is currently on track for nearly 1,090 permits in 2017, which would surpass the 1072 permits the Railroad Commission approved in 2014.

The house where we were happy, Perhaps it's stranding still On the wrong side of the railroad tracks Half - way down the hill.

God calls His people not to impose our beliefs and dictate rights, but to warn others of the price of sin and the finality of inevitable death (in the same way we would wake someone asleep on railroad tracks), and to defend His Truths and to correct false understandings that deceive, and to share the joy that we experience from God's grace.

Across the railroad tracks, over the river, and up on a hill are new homes built during the housing boom of the late 1990s and early 2000s.

I expected to find utter despair among people living in La Estación, a squatter settlement near the railroad tracks on the outskirts of Cuernavaca.

On the other side of the railroad tracks, quite literally, is Khotso House, the headquarters of the South African Council of Churches -LCB- SACC -RCB-, which provided Desmond Tutu with the strong and secure anti-apartheid platform which led to the Nobel Prize and his elevation to the Anglican Primacy of South Africa.

«Rather than life being hills and valleys, I believe it's kind of like two rails on a railroad track, and at all times you have something good and something bad.»

On the High Line, an old elevated railroad track converted into a park in New York's trendy meatpacking district, Sargenti and two other Joffrey dancers prepare for the debut performance of New Bridges Ballet.

At Taylor Railworks we are serving Borderless American Cuisine on this side of the railroad tracks.

The plane settled on the edge of a ravine east of the airport and just shy of the railroad tracks, not far from the trees it had clipped on Twickingham Drive.

Drivers on 143rd Street near the Orland Park Metra station can expect delays during the next month as crews work to relocate railroad tracks in the area, according to a news release from the Village of Orland Park.

Spokesman Matt Libs said park district representatives also would share preliminary plans for the five - acre circular facility with attendees at the 7 to 8 p.m. gathering at the Performing Arts Center, 16801 S. 80th Ave. Libs said the facility would be located near the intersection of 84th Avenue and 183rd Street, north of the Metra railroad tracks and buffered on one side by wetlands.

Libs said the facility would be located near the intersection of 84th Avenue and 183rd Street, north of the Metra railroad tracks and buffered on one side by wetlands.

In 1892, because the townspeople protested the unsightly conditions of the land alongside the railroad tracks, the Railroad developed several parks on the north and south sides of the railroad rightrailroad tracks, the Railroad developed several parks on the north and south sides of the railroad rightRailroad developed several parks on the north and south sides of the railroad rightrailroad right of way.

The proposed site is on a long, county - owned strip of land adjacent to the Illinois Prairie Path and the Union Pacific railroad tracks along the north edge of the National - Louis University campus.

The grand opening of the 43 - acre park will mark the end of 1/2 years of construction on the facility, which is between Algonquin Road and Thacker Street east of the Chicago & North Western railroad tracks.

The board also annexed one house at 0N433 Cumnor Ave.. That home is in a small unincorporated neighborhood just north of the Union Pacific railroad tracks that became completely surrounded by village boundaries after trustees incorporated 29 houses along Crescent Boulevard from 1995 to 1999, and then annexed an additional 15 houses on Cumnor, Scott and Clifton Avenues and Ellynwood Drive in 2002.

New York City officials want to make sure that a business that caught fire last week under a critical stretch of the Metro - North Railroad tracks in Harlem doesn't store flammable gas and liquids, seeking to place such conditions on an amended lease with the Urban Garden Center.

In an appearance in Warren County, Governor Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday that he is «100 percent» opposed to the storage of tanker cars on railroad tracks in the Adirondacks.

The national passenger railroad over the weekend activated its version of so - called positive train control between the two cities, the last stretch of its tracks on the busy Northeast Corridor to get the system.

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.

Ronnie Hakim, CEO of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, said during the briefing that the Long Island Railroad was running normally (although with less than a fifth of its normal passenger load) and that the authority was on track to provide normal rush hour service on Wednesday morning.

On Sunday, Cuomo sent a letter to President Trump pleading for «emergency» help for Penn Station, and on Monday, he took to the airwaves and argued, in even more dramatic terms, that the railroad's imminent closure of some station tracks is actually «an impending disaster.&raquOn Sunday, Cuomo sent a letter to President Trump pleading for «emergency» help for Penn Station, and on Monday, he took to the airwaves and argued, in even more dramatic terms, that the railroad's imminent closure of some station tracks is actually «an impending disaster.&raquon Monday, he took to the airwaves and argued, in even more dramatic terms, that the railroad's imminent closure of some station tracks is actually «an impending disaster.»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he is «100 percent» opposed to the storage of tanker cars on railroad tracks in the Adirondacks.

NEWCOMB — Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve appealed to Governor Andrew Cuomo to take action on a proposal by a private rail company to store hundreds of discarded oil tank cars on railroad tracks in the High Peaks.

A transfer is not likely to happen anytime soon because of environmental contamination on the site and the presence of railroad tracks that prevent safe access to the property.

Jake Edwards, a chief with the Onondaga Nation, walks Tuesday along railroad tracks that border Murphy's Island, on the shoreline of Onondaga Lake, near Carousel Center.

Brian Lee, 21, was speeding on Ogden Street in the vicinity of Broadway 2 a.m. on June 24, 2016 when he lost control of his car, which went onto railroad tracks and crashed.

The heat waves that scorched much of the U.S. in 2012 — the hottest year on record in the continental U.S. — and the sun kinks they created caused enough derailments that the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) issued a special safety advisory that summer warning railroads that they should be sure to inspect buckling - prone sections of track.

In Banff National Park in Canada, grizzlies have used the railroad tracks since the park was created in 1885, gorging on the buffaloberries that thrive along the right - of - way and the occasional carcass of an elk hit by a train.

About a third of this trail is built on former railroad tracks, offering a mostly smooth and level ride for cyclists of all levels.

reported to be the result of falling asleep on railroad tracks in Arkansas on Aug..

(I was reminded of certain TV comedy skits where the heroic canine, running to get help, barks for about thirty seconds and the strangers he's communicating with deduce that the sawmill's on fire, the heroine is tied to the railroad tracks AND the mortgage is overdue!)

Along the way, they stop off at Rushmore where the cantankerous Woody hysterically riffs on America's great monument («It doesn't look finished to me») before then misplacing his teeth along, yet another, set of railroad tracks.

The cast and crew of Midnight Rider were filming on a railroad bridge in Georgia on February 20th when a train came down the tracks unexpectedly.

But Leo Demidov (Hardy), onetime war hero and now a respected member of the State Security Force, can recognize evil in a crime scene beside railroad tracks, where a boy is found with surgical wounds on his naked body.

FRA plans to issue an additional NPRM based on the consensus recommendations of the Securement Working Group and approved by the full RSAC that would prohibit certain unattended freight trains or standing freight cars on main track or sidings and require railroads to adopt and implement procedures to verify securement of trains and unattended equipment for emergency responders.

The Union Station master plan also envisions an expanded Metrorail station, an enhanced retail experience, new and refurbished Amtrak and commuter rail facilities, a rebuilt H Street bridge and a new community, Burnham Place, to be built on air - rights over the railroad tracks with some three - million square feet of new hotels, offices, residences and shopping.

As we approach an S - curved bridge over railroad tracks, Pagani slows not at all, just turning the wheel and getting off, on, and back off the throttle as the car lifts at the top of the ramp.

Construction of a new elevated flyover track at a railroad junction on the South Side of Chicago, IL, integrating intercity passenger rail operations with commuter rail, and reducing travel delays.

The ride is okay, but has a lot of bounce and the truck likes to roll on railroad tracks and hard bumps.

Although the sound of a faraway train whistle often stirs nostalgic longings, Zoellner reminds us that railroads were built on the backbones of many laborers who lost their lives in the effort to stretch gleaming tracks across a nation.

The sludge - gray Onandaga River divided the city as it met Lake Erie beneath a steel bridge: the valley carved by the river was a treeless expanse of railroad tracks, boxcars, refineries, cranes, chemical plants, and, looming over all of this, the smokestacks of the steel mills — squat, black, and enormous — on which Steelton's existence had once depended.

All the dying that summer began with the death of a child, a boy with golden hair and thick glasses, killed on the railroad tracks outside New Bremen, Minnesota, sliced into pieces by a thousand tons of steel speeding across the prairie toward South Dakota.

As part of the Great Rail Journeys tour «Australia & the Ghan», we travel on the Katoomba Scenic Railroad, the world's steepest incline track, on a journey ancient rainforest surroundings.

You can also visit ruins of Loyalist cotton plantations, like the 18th - century Deveaux House on land granted to Colonel Andrew Deveaux in 1783 for protecting Nassau from Spanish invasion and occupation, and ancient railroad tracks stretching out to the sea.

Having been told when and where to assemble to board the train, when the appointed time came, we were greeted by a stern, rather bossy «take - no - nonsense» railroad lady, who showed us to our reserved seats in the train - the famous Notch train which travels on tracks that were laid in the 1870s as part of the Maine Central Railroad's famed Mountain Divisirailroad lady, who showed us to our reserved seats in the train - the famous Notch train which travels on tracks that were laid in the 1870s as part of the Maine Central Railroad's famed Mountain DivisiRailroad's famed Mountain Division line.