Sentences with phrase «railroad town of»

What if the tiny, mid-19th century railroad town of Roseville, Calif. had been frozen in time, then thawed out more than 100 years later in the midst of the...

The Katy House is located in the lovely old railroad town of Smithville, a favorite location for so many movies set in Central Texas.

Entering Arizona, we drive on the legendary Route 66 to the railroad town of Williams, where we spend the night at the Grand Canyon Railway Hotel.

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At this point, nearly every town wanted its own railroad and, in 1846, 272 Acts of Parliament were passed for the purpose of incorporating new railroad companies, which proposed a total of 9,500 miles (15,300 km) of new lines (Wikipedia, n.d.).

The planned site was originally a railroad station and inspired the design that mimics a train station to fit the historic character of the town.

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 totown site was established; that site is the location of Old Town Temecula toTown Temecula today.

Bacon: One size does not fit all September 21, 2015: In the unassuming city of Frontenac, a rural town in southeastern Kansas that's situated in a region flanked by railroad tracks and perhaps better - known in past decades for the prevalence of strip mining for coal, SugarCreek has quietly operated one of the Cincinnati, Ohio - based company's most productive bacon processing plants since 1982.

Temecula town site was established with arrival of the railroad in 1882; those railroad days endured into the 1930s.

The Temecula town site was established with arrival of the railroad in 1882; those railroad days endured into the 1930s.

William Dunton persuaded the rail builders to route the train through his town by selling 16 acres of his own land for railroad right of way for only $ 350.

The safety park will replicate a small town with streets, traffic signals and a railroad crossing, according to Mary Beth Thaman, superintendent of recreation for the park district.

In 1849, both towns were linked to Chicago via the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, which later became part of the Chicago & North Western Railroad.

In the 1850s, stagecoaches ceased stopping at Stacy's Tavern, now a national landmark north of town, and commerce moved south in town when the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad laid tracks there.

The great railroads that linked NYC to Albany and Buffalo were replaced by the Thruway and the podunk little whistlestop towns with closed factories were ignored, much as the states of Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, etc are ignored when everyone flies over them.

State assemblyman Kevin Cahill, a fellow Democrat who has crossed swords with Hein over the county's assumption of Safety - Net payments from the towns, has also taken the railroad's side in the dispute.

The town of Lloyd will supervise the first piece of the work, extending the trail 7 - tenths of a mile west, including tunneling under South Riverside Road to an existing but unused railroad path.

Southold Town Board members are questioning the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's handling of railroad track maintenance in Southold, which has caused unexpected road closures.

Poughkeepsie... The Dutchess County Department of Public Works (DPW) has announced work is scheduled to begin next week to replace the deteriorating County Bridge D - 70R on Dover Furnace Road (CR 26) over the Metro North Railroad in the Town of Dover.

In a recent letter to Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) Chairman Jay Walder, AssemblymanMarc Molinaro (R,I,C - Red Hook) expressed his opposition to the agency's plan to expand, train and house K - 9 units as well as building a communications tower, shooting range, parking fields and a railroad siding in the Towns of East Fishkill and Beekman.

And just this week, railroad advisory committee Chairman Mike Berardi, a former Democratic legislator from the Town of Ulster, resigned, charging closed - door meetings were aimed at discrediting the railroaders by the administration.

During the administration of former Supervisor Phil Cardinale in 2004, the Town Board implemented zoning that would only allow a multiplex theater in downtown Riverhead and Railroad Avenue.

NEW CASTLE — Town Supervisor Robert Greenstein wants to get rid of what he calls a dangerous railroad crossing and replace it with a bridge.

Established as a railroad town in 1882, Billings became known as «the Magic City» because of how it sprouted up from nothing to become one of the largest municipalities in the untamed West.

In this western, cattlemen and wheat farmers tire of being bilked by a buyer with a monopoly on the only railroad in Texas and so endeavor to build their own town / railroad stop where sellers will receive a fair price for their goods.

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.

Dolores's estranged daughter (Jennifer Jason Leigh) returns to the Maine island of her birth to support her mom from being railroaded, as the entire town believes Dolores has already gotten away with murder once.

The absence of the railroad tracks on the map seem to support the claim that the game is set further into the past, as do the presence of caravan camps and settlements, in addition to the towns.

8:00 pm — IFC — The Claim A typically complex film from Michael Winterbottom, with Peter Mullan anchoring the ensemble cast as the rich leader of an old West mining town faced with pressure from the railroad and echoes from his past.

Dressed all in black, she's Vienna, a saloon - keeper who supports a new railroad coming through town, though most of her customers, cattle ranchers, oppose it.

It's the tale of dastardly attorney general Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman) and his plans to run a new railroad right through the peaceful (ish) town of Rock Ridge.

The second student assigned to research the town's railroad also enjoyed giving the presentation for parents most of all.

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.

The town on its banks was very new and its main street was a long curved road that followed the will of a muddy river full of brush, silt, and oxbows that threw the whole town off the strict clean grid laid out by railroad plat.

If a married couple come to settle in the town, somehow the gentleman disappears; he is either fairly frightened to death by being the only man in the Cranford evening parties, or he is accounted for by being with his regiment, his ship, or closely engaged in business all the week in the great neighbouring commercial town of Drumble, distant only twenty miles on a railroad.

It was originally built as a division of the railroad connecting to Chicago, when the railroad finally reached the town in 1892.

Motivated by the lack of space and money, the Wake Forest College sold plots of land for residences and businesses, and in time the town of Wake Forest had a railroad depot and new industries.

Once a railroad town, Papillion is now a city of outdoor recreation with many trails, open spaces, trees, and areas of interest.

The City of Grand Prairie has grown from a modest railroad town into a thriving Dallas - Fort Worth Metropolitan Area suburb.

What began as a small railroad town has transformed into a bustling bedroom community of more than 31,000 residents.

Originally Killeen began as a modest railroad town, but the community experienced a growth spurt around the time of World War II when the U.S. Army turned Camp Hood into Fort Hood and began using it as a military training post.

If the shelter is one of the old - style, ugly, concrete - block buildings located near the landfill or the railroad tracks, in a bad part of town, with no thought given to disease control, then it will be harder to attract adopters and volunteers and harder to keep the animals healthy.

Originally a railroad town that served as a gateway to more remote corners of the Southeast, the vibrant city is now the largest in Georgia and remains a crucial transportation hub.

Located in the Santa Cruz mountains in the quaint town of Felton, Roaring Camp Railroads is home to fun, adventure for the whole family.

This included the building of a railroad, the establishment of port facilities at several points including Xcalac (a small town just north of Ambergris Caye), warehouses, wireless stations and boatyards.

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Originally built to transport redwood logs from the rugged backcountry to the coast, this 1885 heritage railroad now ferries sightseers to and fro between the waterfront town of Fort Bragg inland to the cowboy town of Willits.

The city is most known for the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, a heritage railway, which travels from Durango to the historic mining town of Silverton, Colorado on steam - powered trains with rolling stock dating back to the 1920s and before.

Completed in 1878, the railroad put the town of Alamosa on the map with its new found supply of ore, lumber and cattle and export of agricultural and mining products, with passenger and freight services continuing until 1950.

The city established itself as a railroad town with a flourishing lumber trade and, today, is spread alongside a section of Route 66.

With no luxury European - style accommodation available in town, the backers of the luxury railroad decided to start afresh, with the Alexander Vallaury - designed hotel opening in 1892.