Sentences with phrase «railroad lines with»

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.

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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.

We are also fortunate to be served by two Class I railroads and 24 short - line companies, giving our state the No. 7 rank in rail mileage, with nearly 5,000 miles of railroad track, the largest railroad network in the Southeast.

The rail line operates the railroads between the US and Mexico, and given Trump's skepticism of trade with Mexico a Clinton victory would be good news for the firm.

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.

(3) regulatory policy to keep the prices charged by natural monopolies such a railroads, power and gas companies in line with actual production costs plus normal profit.

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.

A number of modern urban newspapers, such as the Baltimore Sun, the Richmond Times — Dispatch, and the Hartford Courant ran advertisements before the Civil War for the sale of slaves or the recapture of runaways; all four of the major North American railroads own rail lines that were built with slave labor; the founder of Lehman Bros. bought slaves as workers for the firm when it was founded in pre — Civil War Alabama.

The cold dishes included tomatoes stuffed with pungent garlic cheese, spicy Korean carrot salad from the Russian Far East, and spicy Mongolian beef salad representing a branch line of the railroad that runs through Mongolia.

The region is also struggling to respond to a broader transit crisis, with frequent problems on commuter railroads and bus lines.

They need to take this opportunity to make their demands known to the MTA, whether it is for a new bus rapid transit line, access to Metro - North or Long Island Railroad at a subway rate, or connectivity with the ferries.

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.

Transit advocates pushed the notion of reducing fares on the Long Island Rail Road and Metro - North Railroad to entice city drivers to leave their cars at home and help fill in transit gaps in Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens neighborhoods with limited access to subway and bus lines.

Interestingly, the story states that passengers would comfortably be «flying» at 30 to 40 miles per hour; contrast that with the last line of the «Morse's Telegraph» story in the same issue, which described railroad cars as «slow and tedious.»

One line from «Let It Rock» — «working on the railroad with a steel driving hammer» — led right into a mini-lesson on folktales and heroes like John Henry, and we compared working and living conditions from the past with today, which is California State Social Studies Standards 2.1

When the team realized it needed a full - scale wind tunnel, he came up with the insanely outside - the - box idea of retrofitting an abandoned railroad tunnel in the Allegheny Mountains for straight - line testing.

The Astoria and Columbia River Railroad Company owned the railroad, and later in 1907, the Great Northern Railroad acquired the line and became part of the Spokane, Portland, and Seattle Railway Company, commonly known as the S.P. & S. Also learn how travelers used Hug Point as a roadway, and with the completion of the Arch Cape Tunnel, Cannon Beach would no longer be «the end of the road» but rather a place people would pass through but where, it was hoped, they would pause and spend some money, perhaps even stay a nightRailroad Company owned the railroad, and later in 1907, the Great Northern Railroad acquired the line and became part of the Spokane, Portland, and Seattle Railway Company, commonly known as the S.P. & S. Also learn how travelers used Hug Point as a roadway, and with the completion of the Arch Cape Tunnel, Cannon Beach would no longer be «the end of the road» but rather a place people would pass through but where, it was hoped, they would pause and spend some money, perhaps even stay a nightrailroad, and later in 1907, the Great Northern Railroad acquired the line and became part of the Spokane, Portland, and Seattle Railway Company, commonly known as the S.P. & S. Also learn how travelers used Hug Point as a roadway, and with the completion of the Arch Cape Tunnel, Cannon Beach would no longer be «the end of the road» but rather a place people would pass through but where, it was hoped, they would pause and spend some money, perhaps even stay a nightRailroad acquired the line and became part of the Spokane, Portland, and Seattle Railway Company, commonly known as the S.P. & S. Also learn how travelers used Hug Point as a roadway, and with the completion of the Arch Cape Tunnel, Cannon Beach would no longer be «the end of the road» but rather a place people would pass through but where, it was hoped, they would pause and spend some money, perhaps even stay a night or two.

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.

Kieron Gillen summed up this impulse well when he dismissed The Watchmen video game trailer with a two - line blog post at Rock, Paper Shotgun: «Honestly, nice try guys, but you may as well turn Anna Karenina into a Railroad Tycoon clone.»

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:

Getting to BMA By Metro North Railroad: Get off the Hudson Line at Yankees — E. 153 Street Station Gateway Center Blvd Bronx, NY 10451 (6 miles to Grand Central Terminal) Contact The Bronx Museum with questions: Visitor Services, 718-681-6000

The new venue, a former New York Central Railroad freight train terminal housing five blocks of the original High Line, has 30 - foot high ceilings with varying levels of lofted space to be used for special projects.

Viewers are enveloped by the strength of the corroded, metallic tracks considering the magnitude of industry, migration, and power associated with the railroad these lines served as skeleton.

Assume I've replaced my car with a new plug - in hybrid, and to eliminate extraneous factors assume that they're otherwise identical — same weight, CdA, rolling resistance, & c. I've replaced an energy path of oil well — oil tanker or pipeline — refinery — tank truck — gas pump — IC engine with one that's 0.7 * (coal mine — railroad — power station — transmission line — battery charging — electric motor).

However, price competition for short - hauls over the same rail lines between smaller towns wasn't nearly as vigorous, as it was unlikely that two different railroads, with different routes, would efficiently serve the same two locales.

With those remarks at the heart of his State of the Union address - and a 2012 Budget proposal to back them up - President Obama drew a line in the sand and articulated a vision of American economic renewal fueled by key investments in the kind of public - private partnership that brought us the railroads and jet aviation, microchips and the Internet, countless biomedical breakthroughs and a portfolio of clean energy alternatives.

Nicknamed the «Crossroads of the Nation» from the B&O Railroad intersecting with Southwest Electric Line Railroad, the township was created by John Strong in 1818.

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS • Reduced train delay rate by 10 % through vigilant monitoring of track condition and efficient reporting of the same • Designed a 20 page pictorial safety manual which was highly commended by the management • Enhanced safety compliance of railroad signaling mechanism bringing it in line with revised railroad safety guidelines issued by the federal railroad administration

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.

The Utah County Association of REALTORS ® has been hard at work promoting FrontRunner South, a commuter rail line utilizing a 45 - mile stretch of an existing Union Pacific Railroad corridor to connect downtown Salt Lake City with Provo.

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 city is also the primary transportation hub of the Southeastern United States (via highway, railroad and air), with Hartsfield - Jackson Atlanta International Airport among the world's busiest airports, providing Delta Air Lines with the world's largest airline hub.