Sentences with phrase «on freight trains»

Operate track switches, couple cars, and work on freight trains in yard operations and on the road.

I am quite sure he did a good job of crating the painting and the expressman said that it would not be handled much, only one change would be made in St. Louis and that their trucks ride piggy back on the freight trains to California.

Every year it becomes more dangerous for migrants to traverse Mexico, particularly on the freight trains.

Bluegrass music is at the heart of the film, as it was of «Bonnie and Clyde,» and there are images of chain gangs, sharecropper cottages, cotton fields, populist politicians, river baptisms, hobos on freight trains, patent medicines, 25 - watt radio stations and Klan rallies.

Shipping containers would be transported upstate on freight trains to the DeWitt yard, where they'll be off - loaded onto trucks.

Congress enacted the first national railroad safety legislation that year because the companies had insisted it was too expensive to put automatic braking systems and couplers on freight trains.

NAPPANEE, Indiana — The Latest on a freight train derailment in northern Indiana:.

A Canadian National Railways engineer passing on a freight train discovered his body beside the track.

I was stunned — it wasn't that I didn't understand any particular aspect of the discussion, or that I disagreed with any particular points, but they were off together on a freight train and I had somehow missed the station.

Supervise train crews on a freight train.

Supervise train crews on a freight train and coordinate switch engine crews.

Not exact matches

When John Roth thinks back on the oil market of two years ago, a certain calamitous image comes to mind: «I liken it to pushing a freight train off the top of a hill,» says Roth, manager of the $ 3 billion Fidelity New Millennium Fund.

I thought it was a freight train, but then we saw the first casualties... Many passengers on the (train) were crying.»

I saw it bearing down on me like a runaway freight train.

I saw the tracks they left on the highways, lying on the floor of freight trains, the parents in rags, the coal box empty, the sink running over, the walls sweating and between the cold beads of sweat the cockroaches running like mad; I saw them hobbling along like twisted gnomes or falling backwards in the epileptic frenzy....

Thy barns all fill'd, the endless freight - train and the bulging storehouse, The grapes that ripen on thy vines, the apples in thy orchards, Thy incalculable lumber, beef, pork, potatoes, thy coal, thy gold and silver, The inexhaustible iron in thy mines.

From there, Blount breaks an arm tackle from Malcom Brown and is in the open field, and it's up to safety Duron Harmon to bring down the freight train, which he does nicely on the play.

Paired with Keita, that team's going to be a bear trap on the defensive end and a freight train going forward.

Every time my husband comes home, our cat climbs up on his lap purring like a freight train and wanting pets and loves.

Build your train tracks and let your freight train go on journeys like never before!

This month we focused on 3 Donald Crews books: Truck, Ten Black Dots, and Freight Train.

New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo speaks during a news conference announcing plans for a freight train tunnel between New York and New Jersey on Friday, May 5, 2017.

State Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi (D - Forest Hills) is calling on a city body to install sound barriers near the Fresh Pond Terminal in Ridgewood so residents will not have to hear loud freight trains passing by the neighborhood.

Margret Evangelista, a Rockland County mother with a daughter in high school, likened parents and teachers to trains on parallel tracks carrying different freight.

A few times he was caught on board freight trains by the French police and was sent back to the camp.

Guy Bates added that work is also planned to remove a level crossing on the way to London Gateway port in Essex to ensure longer freight trains can pass safety.

Pastrick, a former train engineer from Ravena, once drove freight trains on the Delaware & Hudson Railway and recalled one trip to the Port of Albany with a student engineer at the controls.

«This November, we stop that freight train, and we elect a Democratic Congress and we do it, and we stop the negative, we stop the anti-immigration, we stop it,» the governor declared this weekend on Long Island.

On average, two crude oil freight trains travel through Ulster County per day and each day one barge passes along the Hudson River between Dutchess and Ulster counties carrying more than 4 million gallons of oil.

A 19 - year - old Kingston man was struck by a CSX freight train Friday evening while walking on the tracks, Town of Ulster

Freight trains can move a ton of cargo 457 miles on a gallon of fuel, versus 130 miles for a full - size tractor trailer.

This simple and unassuming little move starts off like a warm bath on a Sunday afternoon and ends like a leap out of a moving freight train onto a unicycle.

Thanksgiving is headed our way on the holiday freight train, and these Gem & Chalkboard Turkeys will sparkle on the table or sideboard!

Although the line is mainly dedicated to freight, you can ride on the different trains.

I had always heard stories about people traveling on «La Bestia,» The Beast, which are the freight trains that some migrants take in order to traverse Mexico.

Members of the refugee caravan on their way to the station in Mexico where they will be boarding the freight train.

This weekend, the young - adult freight train that kicked off with Twilight and kept a-rollin» with The Hunger Games makes some room for Beautiful Creatures, a supernatural romance (natch) based on the book by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl.

Actually, their idea of fun times involves laying around talking about how much they like spending time with each other, and going out to play teenage pranks, like graffiti the local water tower, jump on moving freight trains, or sneak into a movie theater.

On top of that, it nabbed 7 BAFTA's last night (winning half of their 12 nominations) which just keeps the freight train a truckin».

I was reading and chatting with two other teachers on the second floor of the administration building where we live when I heard a sound like a freight train.

«School reform today is like a freight train, and I'm out on the tracks saying, «You're going the wrong way!»»

Connecticut need only look across the border to New York to see the on - coming, out - of - control freight train that is barreling toward our public schools and our children.

Roll on the throttle and the twin - turbo V - 12 will surge this 5500 - pound car forth like a freight train at full steam.»

U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced an $ 18.5 million grant to reduce passenger and freight train congestion on Amtrak's Empire Corridor at the Syracuse, NY train station.

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.

On August 29, 2013, the first - ever emergency session of the RSAC was held in response to the July 6, 2013 derailment of an unattended Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway freight train containing crude oil in Lac - Mégantic, Quebec, Canada.

The X5 xDrive35d has a huge reserve early on that propels the 5,225 - pound SUV like a freight train.

On July 6, 2013, a catastrophic railroad accident involving a U.S. railroad company occurred in Lac - Mégantic, Quebec, Canada, when an unattended freight train transporting petroleum crude oil rolled down a descending grade and subsequently derailed.

Aided by the electric motor, there was no hesitation on power delivery and the car built up steam like a freight train.

That familiar truck feel — the sensation of being on a memory foam mattress that rides so straight it may as well be nailed to a freight train — is still present in the Ram.