Sentences with phrase «over railroad tracks»

Our lawyers achieved a $ 925,000 mediated settlement for our client's slip - and - fall injuries when we established the city's liability for negligent snow removal on a street bridge sidewalk over railroad tracks in Hackensack.

The test car hardly made an interior noise, even when bounding along rough streets and over railroad tracks.

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.

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.

If sequenced and working correctly, these interconnected systems can help prevent vehicles from stopping over railroad tracks where there is limited roadway between the tracks and the nearby intersection.

«It's the kind of car that makes you feel like you're 16 years old again,» contributor Marc Noordeloos said after jumping over railroad tracks and pulling handbrake turns in parking lots.

With a goofy and oblivious grin on his face, her first boyfriend Danny (Lucas Hedges), a kid from a well - to - do family, tells Marion and Lady Bird's father Larry (Tracy Letts) that he thought the phrase was only a joke — until he passed over some railroad tracks on the way to their house.

The village is applying for three federal grants to build two bike paths and a pedestrian crossing over railroad tracks.

Ideas include relocating the Petrillo Music Shell and building a deck over the railroad tracks.

Police waved us past barricades and over railroad tracks to a landing where we dipped our front tires into the river, which is RAGBRAI's concluding rite.

Many times, cars go over the railroad track street lines in intersections and the light will turn red causing their car to stop directly on the tracks.

Not exact matches

All nine people on board were killed when a Puerto Rico Air National Guard cargo plane crashed on Wednesday near Savannah, Georgia, scattering fiery debris over a highway and railroad tracks, authorities said yesterday.

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.

As the summer sun glowed golden over Ballard, a neighborhood rich with Scandinavian history, I crossed the old railroad tracks, past the main streets, and made my way into a shipyard where relics of the old neighborhood were displayed as if it were a museum.

We arrived fairly early to find a good parking space, so when we realized we had lots of time to spare before the start of the show, we walked over to Old Sacramento to explore the railroad tracks and various restaurants and stores lining the cobblestone roads.

He laid out the difficult logistics of maneuvering 33 excursion trains over a single railroad track to the same point within a few hours and caring for their passengers.

Ground is expected to be broken in 2001 for a long - planned pedestrian bridge over the Union Pacific Railroad tracks in Wheaton, near where a 12 - year - old girl was struck and killed by a train in 1993.

The third big project on the Park District's plate, scheduled to open next August, is a pedestrian overpass built over the Union Pacific railroad tracks between Monroe Elementary School and the DuPage County Fairgrounds.

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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.

Even the Catskill railroad group found this a worthy idea, with the caveat that they grade over the tracks.

Bernardo said that her interest in returning to public office was mainly piqued by the controversy over what to do with the Kingston section of the old Catskill Mountain Railroad tracks.

The Ley Creek pipe that runs along the CSX railroad tracks over Onondaga Lake broke after similarly heavy rains in late October 2016.

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.

But crossing railroad tracks or driving over bad pavement was a punishing, spine - bruising exercise.

The only time I could induce torque steer - and then only slightly - was under hard acceleration while going over a speed bump or railroad tracks.

On the road, Ford and its Special Vehicle Team engineers have added enough bracing to the chassis to make the convertible feel just like the coupe, even over the roughest railroad tracks.

Noise: Quiet going, except for some dashboard tickings and clickings over rough roads and railroad tracks and a little wind noise at 55 mph - plus.

with the battery pack in the back of the car, going over a pothole or railroad tracks and make it sound like you are driving in downtown Baghdad.

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.

On my Underground Railroad I never run my train off the track and I never lost a passenger,» said the woman who led over 300 slaves to freedom.

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.

Following the events of Phantom Hourglass, Link, Tetra, and the other pirates come across a new land that is ruled over by the Spirits of Good, who were responsible for sealing the land's tyrant, Malladus, into the earth after the concourse of the Spirit War with the railroad tracks called Spirit Tracks that spiral and work their way all over the vibrant landtracks called Spirit Tracks that spiral and work their way all over the vibrant landTracks that spiral and work their way all over the vibrant landscape.

Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg, Germany holds the record as the largest model railroad in the world, and with an astounding 13 kilometers of track and over 200,000 miniature people, that's not too surprising.

The New York Times is a raging inferno of art world scoops tonight with the paper's City Room blog revealing the High Line's ambitions to install Jeff Koons's Train over the former railroad tracks that have become a central draw to Manhattan and essential to the revival of the Meat Packing District, including the future site of the Whitney Museum:

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Not only is coal inexpensive, but it doesn't require specialized methods of transportation to bring it to power plants: Trucks and railroads can transport coal over existing roads or tracks.

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.»

According to the Indiana Department of Transportation, the state has over 5,700 public railroad crossings, 2,030 of which have both flashing lights and gates to bar vehicles from going over the tracks when a train is near.

The accident happened when the tractor - trailer rolled over and down onto Union Pacific railroad tracks below.

The railroad wanted a town along its newly straightened track, so it bought property, held a lottery and then moved 67 settlers — houses and all — to the new site over the course of one summer.

The railroad service National Railroad Passenger Corporation, widely known as Amtrak (combining «America» and «track»), provides intercity passenger train service, operating over 200 trains per a day and connecting over 500 destinations not only in 46 states and Washington, D.C., but in three Canadian provinces railroad service National Railroad Passenger Corporation, widely known as Amtrak (combining «America» and «track»), provides intercity passenger train service, operating over 200 trains per a day and connecting over 500 destinations not only in 46 states and Washington, D.C., but in three Canadian provinces Railroad Passenger Corporation, widely known as Amtrak (combining «America» and «track»), provides intercity passenger train service, operating over 200 trains per a day and connecting over 500 destinations not only in 46 states and Washington, D.C., but in three Canadian provinces as well.