Sentences with phrase «railroad line after»
Commissioners voted last week not to build the facility on top of the city's central reservoir on Myrtle Avenue at the Union Pacific railroad line after residents and Union Pacific officials testified at a public hearing that the site would be unsafe.
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Admittedly, after years of acquisitions, Berkshire's bottom line has more to do with the performance of the increasingly large companies it owns — including, for instance, railroad giant BNSF and Heinz — and less to do with the returns of its stock market portfolio.
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.
Just as the railroad prepared to celebrate its 100th birthday, a certain Charles E. Bradshaw Jr. purchased the line and with the restoration process complete, engine No. 481 returned to service after 20 years in retirement.
However, that was the date that the freight lines were lofted 30 feet above street level after having existed as street - level railroad tracks some odd eighty years prior.
Kevin Ryder, a 30 - year - old railroad lineman, was working on power lines after a train derailment when he suffered severe electrical injuries resulting in the loss of both hands.
Originally named «Gibbs Station,» after Barnett Gibbs (who eventually became one of Texas» first lieutenant governors), the town was renamed in 1892 for George Coppell, wealthy financier from England who came to the United States in the 1880s and was reportedly heavily involved with the final construction of the local railroad line.