Sentences with phrase «railroad network»

In the context of southern New England, the railroad network was overbuilt, and we have many rail - to - trail conversion projects underway.

But the company also is the outright owner of BNSF Railway, the second largest freight railroad network in North America, as well as some other companies you may have heard of, including Dairy Queen and Fruit of the Loom.

In June, I spoke at the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom conference, a passionate group of teachers, park rangers, and nonprofit educators who are giving students a deeper, more meaningful connection to the history of slavery in our nation.

The Underground Railroad Network is not a single National Park but, as its name indicates, a network of places far more extensive than I was aware of.

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.

In the late 1800s, the coast - to - coast railroad network linked US states, creating the world's first mass market.

Uniformed and plainclothes presence at Grand Central Terminal and Penn Station as well has other major stations throughout the Metro - North Railroad and Long Island Railroad networks have been beefed up.

Any Civil War buff is familiar with the technological advances of that era: the carnage caused when tactics failed to accommodate breech - loading rifled muskets and artillery pieces, the truly revolutionary introduction of armored ships and railroad networks, and the merely tantalizing deployment of submerged warships and reconnaissance balloons.

It's a good thing to take a look at your surroundings before spending tons of cash on big stations, extensive railroad networks and «modern» (by 1800's standards) trains.

Not exact matches

It's a network of railroads, oil pipelines, and other projects that runs northwest from China through Kazakhstan and Russia.

The railroad company also plans to match contributions given through its employee support network.

While the similarities between Sears and Amazon are striking — the railroad and the Internet, the elimination of the middle man with the Sears catalog and Amazon's self - publishing platform and content creation, the creation of an urban distribution network through local railroad agents and the 400 points of distribution that Whole Foods delivers to Amazon — there are also some game changing differences.

Its railroad, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, is one of the largest in the country, raking in $ 23 billion in revenue last year by operating on a track network of 32,500 miles in 28 states and three Canadian provinces.

BNSF generated $ 6 billion in operating cash flow in 2012 for Berkshire Hathaway, and a slate of current investments to improve the railroad's network is expected to lead to higher freight volumes and higher cash flow in the years to come.

First proposed by President Xi Jinping in 2013, the initiative would develop and construct a vast network of railroads and shipping lanes between China and 65 countries in Asia, North Africa, the Middle East and Europe.

It was not long before a man named Richard B. Sears of North Redwood, Minnesota, combined the railroad, the telegraph, and the new U.S. Rural Postal system to create a giant new network of merchandising — the mail order house.

The Atlanta BeltLine is a sustainable redevelopment project that provides a network of public parks, multi-use trails and transit along a historic 22 - mile railroad corridor circling downtown and connecting many neighborhoods directly to each other.

«I commend the Federal Railroad Administration for their wise investment in New York's infrastructure and look forward to continuing to work with them to secure additional funding as we enhance the high - speed rail network.»

Syracuse - area Rep. Dan Maffei sponsored the bill to recognize the leader of the anti-slavery network known as the Underground Railroad.

Hybrid locomotive technologies offer many advantages, but they will come with new obstacles, says Mike Iden, general director of car and locomotive engineering at Omaha, Neb. — based Union Pacific Railroad, the nation's largest railroad company, with a 5,150 - kilometer Railroad, the nation's largest railroad company, with a 5,150 - kilometer railroad company, with a 5,150 - kilometer network.

So far Bowen and his team have tested the device at a railroad underpass, in a mock network of sewer pipes in Georgia — part of a military training facility — and in several outdoor tunnels and caves in and around Boston.

If they've accessed a network that's controlling something, such as an electrical power grid or a railroad system, they can cause things to happen not in cyberspace but in physical space.

A secret network of ordinary people known as the Underground Railroad guide the family on their journey north to Canada.

Freedom (R for violence) Antebellum Era drama, set in Virginia in 1856, about a runaway slave (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) who makes a break for freedom in Canada with his family via a secret network known as the Underground Railroad.

And here all this time you thought that the Civil War was fought over states» rights and that «peculiar institution» called slavery, that the Underground Railroad was a network of escape routes across the Mason - Dixon and the southern plantation system was built on the backs of black labor.

She's our go - to person for negotiating agreements with the states and freight railroads — and getting our high - speed rail network up and running.

The goal of the study, which will be funded through a $ 3.2 million grant from the Federal Railroad Administration and $ 200,000 each from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Norfolk Southern, is to reduce passenger travel times between Chicago and Detroit and efficiently move freight through one of the nation's busiest freight rail networks, the congested Chicago to Porter, Ind., segment.

In his novel Underground Airlines, Ben Winters models the secret network that helps facilitate safe travel for escaped slaves from the «Hard Four» on the 19th century Underground Railroad.

Unlike a lot of other methods of transportation, railroads must maintain their own networks.

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By creating networks of shelters, rescue organizations, and other contacts, the railroads match animals with destinations — and coordinate the transports to get them there.

During the Civil War the Confederacy had to contend with three differing gauge sizes, something many historians attribute to their eventual vanquish by the Unionists; «The Confederate government was never able to coax the fragmented, run - down, multi-gauged network of southern railroads into the same degree of efficiency exhibited by northern roads.

[6] For Carbon (1989), an installation composed chiefly of bars of color and typographically crisp words, he mapped two overlapping histories around the gallery walls: The network of railroads integral to the settling of the American West and the homes of the indigenous tribes who were displaced, imprisoned or eradicated.

But I want to focus attention on a point made in a fascinating Carl Zimmer essay in National Geographic — on the role of 19th century social networks (the telegraph) and railroads in facilitating mass slaughter: Read more...

We're a worldwide network of mountaineers, filmmakers, doctors, sherpas, scientists and Nepalis creating an underground railroad to the most affected villages, delivering pre-packed duffel bags filled with family - size tents and tarps into the hands of anyone willing to ship them or courier them into Nepal.

As a result, railroading firms would compete with each other vigorously over price for long - distance hauling because their networks provided different routes to move goods efficiently between major population centers.

Though small railroads had existed in America for much of the previous century, westward expansion and the rebuilding of southern U.S. railways after the Civil War resulted in the standardization, interconnection, and expansion of the nation's rail network.

In addition to the Kochs, Nichols and Hamm working to fund the climate change countermovement, there are smaller operators of propane, chemical, railroad, pipeline, and drilling equipment companies in the network.

The Federal Railroad Administration is hoping Japan and other countries will help the United States to build a high - speed railway network.

What works for the convenience of Sandford Fleming and the railroads (and later, Walter Cronkite and the TV networks) doesn't work for our bodies.

By comparison, the city's other subway system, the metropolitan government - run Toei network transports has 109 kilometers of track and 106 stations on its four lines - a total of 304 km of subway tracks, in addition to ordinary railroads.

This is the densest network under development in the United States, and what makes it interesting is that the former railroad corridors here went to village centers — places where huge antediluvian mill complexes once produced heavy things.