Sentences with phrase «railroad towns with»

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

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OTTAWA — The police said on Sunday that at least five people had died and 40 were missing after runaway railroad tank cars filled with oil derailed and exploded in a small Quebec town.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

As he sets himself up in a town prepping itself for a new railroad and all the prosperity that comes with it, John has to contend with the notorious outlaw Butch Cavendish (William Fichtner), who's been freed from custody and reunited with his gang.

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.

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.

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.

First a small farming community, then a bustling railroad depot and later an entertainment hotspot in the roaring»20s, Grove City today combines a small - town feel with big city appeal.

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

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.

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.

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 1With 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 1with the Alexander Vallaury - designed hotel opening in 1892.

Begin your visit at Railroad Square, the historic heart of Old Town, still replete with beautiful historic stone buildings constructed by Italian immigrants who favored Sonoma County for its resemblance to the «old country.»

Marfa was founded in the 1880s as a water - stop for railway travelers heading west; the town's growth ebbed and flowed with the rise and decline of the railroad industry.

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.

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

The history of your town is filled with triumphs as well as tragedies — witness the horrific Portland Express railroad disaster of 1871.

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.

I wanted to see that cute little town again with the college by the railroad tracks.

Yet four trains a day stop in this town of 1,000 with two lively businesses, a few that make do, and otherwise the hulls of buildings of a once - busy railroad town.