Sentences with phrase «railroad lines»

The city's prominence arose from its historical importance as a center for the oil and cotton industries, and its position along numerous railroad lines.

However, if we include emissions associated with building infrastructure like railroad lines and roads the actual carbon footprint of a vacation can increase significantly.

A trolley line in the broad, tree - lined median of Euclid Avenue formerly connected Upland to the Southern Pacific Railroad line in Ontario.

Tracy is part of the greater San Francisco Bay Area The origins of Tracy are related to the mid-19th century construction of Central Pacific Railroad lines running from Sacramento through Stockton and to the San Francisco Bay Area.

The Magnificent Dead takes place in the 1870s in the small Texas town of Rosewood where local rancher Jared Hamilton and his men have declared war on the town, using fear and death to prevent a new railroad line from coming through.

They explore sites where the natural and built environment evince the march of time, looking to places as diverse as abandoned railroad lines in the American West, neglected buildings in the Midwest, historic landmarks in London, and a skyscraper in post-apartheid Johannesburg.

Sidney Mathias, the president - elect, says he also wants to bring a commuter railroad to Buffalo Grove along the Wisconsin Central Railroad line.

Bechtel is also the quintessential family business: It has been led, with a brief exception, by a succession of four family CEOs since cattle farmer Warren Bechtel founded the firm in 1898 to help build railroad lines.

The proposal to turn an old and long - closed elevated railroad line into an elongated park and urban connector drew a packed house Tuesday night at Buffalo's Saturn Club.

Initial — but not comprehensive — APA mapping research estimates some 800 miles of existing railroad beds or defunct railroad lines with tracks are scattered around the Adirondack Park.

The site of the find is a pool at a former Roman bath house near where a new railroad line transversing the Jezreel Valley is to be laid.

Dallas was founded as a city in 1841 and was historically an important center for oil and cotton production.1 This, together with its ideal location along major railroad lines and strong financial and industrial sectors, allowed the city to grow immensely despite its lack of a direct link to the sea.

Then in 1882, the first railroad line was completed and a new town site was established; that site is the location of Old Town Temecula today.

But it might be a while before the state recommends how to clean up the site northwest of 153rd Street and the Norfolk Southern Railroad line, said IEPA spokesman Stan Black.

Being an expert on something as forgotten or mundane as an old railroad line — and bringing it back to life as a trail — means that I have scores of stories of inspirational things that people have told me about what it means to them to have the trail in the community.

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.

The City of Chicago and the Trust for Public Land have acquired key properties for three new parks and trail access ramps along the Canadian Pacific railroad line at Bloomingdale Avenue.

Efforts have picked up steam to convert an unused railroad line into an elevated bike and walking trail through the city's Northwest Side.

The depot, which had been donated to the society in 1980 by the Soo Railroad Line, was moved to its current location nine years ago.

Ever since the «summer of hell,» which had railroad line closures and lengthy delays, commuters have been playing a game of chance on the subways in the hopes that they can get to work on time, while Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio blame each other and search for a couple of billion dollars to fix the mess.

Walker indicated he would refuse an $ 810 million award from the federal Department of Transportation to build a high speed railroad line from Madison to Milwaukee as he believed it would cost the state $ 7.5 million per year to operate and would not prove profitable.

Named for the final spike driven into the first US transcontinental railroad line, Golden Spike plans to market to governments, corporations and individuals to routinely send people to the moon for scientific purposes, to mine for resources or simply for prestige.

W&OD Railroad Regional Park — a 45 mile paved trail running from Shirlington (just north of Alexandria) to Purcellville along the old Washington and Old Dominion Railroad line.

When railroad lines were finally finished between Astoria and Seaside in the late 1890s, homesteading expanded to this area, then known as Elk Creek.

He completed four book projects in the early 1990's: «Les voies ferrees, St. - Etienne et la plaine du Forez» (1990), on the first French railroad line; «19 Photographs» (1990), aluminum foil photographs; «Usines de Dentelle» (1993), and «Wolfsburg» (1994), on the Nazi origins of the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, Germany.

Lying within the state - designated Hudson Highlands Scenic Area of Statewide Significance, the land is visible from the adjoining heavily traveled Metro - North commuter railroad line, the Hudson River and points on its western shore.

The town has become the primary commercial hub for much of western MD because of its proximity to many of the main railroad lines in addition to both I - 70 and I - 81.

Founded in 1878 as a stop on the then important railroad line between Dallas and Shreveport, Mesquite enjoyed great success as an agricultural community.

Railroad lines grew to accompany its many inland waterways, making it a busy transportation hub and way station for industry and agriculture.

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.

About five years ago, Della Penna bought a house eight feet away from what was once a track for the New Haven & Northampton Railroad line and is now a trail popular with strollers, bicyclists, and in - line skaters.

The Park District is building the multiuse path on an abandoned railroad line that extends nearly three miles along Bloomingdale Avenue.

The town of Capa sprouted up in 1906 along railroad lines in the area, and dissipated due to the Great Depression.

India is building railroad lines that crisscross the country to connect underused coal mines with growing urban populations, threatening to dump more resources into an already glutted market.

Once an important transportation hub due to its proximity to two major railroad lines, Corinth is now home to a number of small businesses representing many different industries.

ResumeWritingService.biz know that the city's prominence arose from its historical importance as a center for the oil and cotton industries, and its position along numerous railroad lines.

According to the Roseville Historical Society, in 1864 the Central Pacific Railroad tracks were constructed eastward from Sacramento, and when they crossed a small California Central Railroad line they named the spot «Junction».

In the late 19th century, railroads expanded rapidly, and the village happened to be located on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad line.

Improving its railroad lines would lower costs for doing business and attract more investors to its natural resources sector.

The nearest transportation hub to Schuylkill Yards and uCity Square sites in West Philadelphia is 30th Street Station, where 13 railroad lines, five trolley lines, and the El converge and account for 1.1 million trips a day, SEPTA officials said.

A geologist told the author that he was once instructed «to produce evidence,» where there was none, to support a lawsuit concerning the location of a railroad line.

But Humphrey, who had prospected for gold in California, realized the railroad lines then being built would change the area «s character.

Today, railroad lines and the New York State Thruway follow the same general route.

Among the report's more controversial proposals is a plan to move spent fuel out of Indian Point in Buchanan along with 16 other power plants without direct access to railroad lines, by barge, down the Hudson River.

Discontinuing use of the railroad line in 2017 also pushed away a new rail - bike business that ran between Saranac Lake and Lake Clear.

Environmentalists were stunned this summer when they learned that Iowa Pacific Holdings, which leases / owns the railroad line from Saratoga to Tahawus, was considering storing empty oil tankers along an unused section of the tracks in Essex and Hamilton Counties.

Esopus officials say they are also concerned because the town already has railroad lines that carry hazardous materials through the town, as well as being bordered by the Hudson River, which carries oil barge traffic.

• Is located next to a railroad line.

Two culverts in the railroad line allowed briny north arm water to flow into the south arm and, because of its higher density, sink to the bottom of the south arm.