Sentences with phrase «railroad construction»

Charles Francis Adams, president of the Union Pacific Railroad, called this redundancy the «maddest specimen of railroad construction of which» he had ever heard.

Damasio's central narrative involved the strange case of Phineas Gage, a 19th - century railroad construction foreman whose skull was pierced by a metal spike during an explosion.

On Sept. 13, 1848, Gage, who worked in railroad construction, was setting an explosive charge with a tamping iron when the gunpowder detonated, rocketing a metal rod up through the roof of his mouth, into his left frontal lobe and through the top of his skull.

Provide project management, vehicle fleet management, railroad construction inspection, operations management, 49 - CFR based rules training, etc..

Herzog now specializes in Railroad Construction, Transit Operation and Maintenance...

The award is named after the black 10th Cavalry Regiment stationed near the railroad construction camps of the Kansas Frontier in 1867.

He noted the famous case of Phineas Gage, a railroad construction foreman whose brain was penetrated by a large iron rod in an 1848 industrial accident.

Opposing them is a band of trappers headed by Dirk Rourke (Victor Jory, The Miracle Worker) who sabotages the railroad construction and incites the local Indians to rebel against the project.

The country saw a huge influx of Chinese immigrants in the mid-19th century, when Peru's abolishment of slavery in 1854 opened up jobs in farming and railroad construction.

Urbanization and the move to factory production, intensive mining practices and railroad construction to meet new trade and consumer demands resulted in economic benefits for many, but also a significant increase in occupational accident and disease.