Sentences with phrase «railroad tracks running»

Local environmental groups oppose the transport of tar sands crude, which is extremely difficult to clean up, and which they say poses a risk to the Hudson River, Lake Champlain and other areas where railroad tracks run along the shoreline.

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We had just gotten off work and me in my chef pants and him in his pressed waiter shirt sat on the railroad tracks that ran alongside the taco truck and ate our oversized burritos, juice running down our wrists.

On the elevated railroad tracks that run behind the courts, an engineer kept running his train back and forth in order to watch the historic proceedings.

Projects that it supports include restoration of the Rockaway Beach Line, a long - abandoned Long Island Railroad track that runs to the Rockaway peninsula.

At last week's regular session, an issue was whether the legislature should specifically authorize the retention of 1.1 miles of railroad track between the end of Catskill Mountain Railroad's Kingston - to - West Hurley run and scenic overviews of the Ashokan Reservoir at the Glenforailroad track between the end of Catskill Mountain Railroad's Kingston - to - West Hurley run and scenic overviews of the Ashokan Reservoir at the GlenfoRailroad's Kingston - to - West Hurley run and scenic overviews of the Ashokan Reservoir at the Glenford dike.

Ronnie Hakim, CEO of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, said during the briefing that the Long Island Railroad was running normally (although with less than a fifth of its normal passenger load) and that the authority was on track to provide normal rush hour service on Wednesday morning.

The Ley Creek pipe that runs along the CSX railroad tracks over Onondaga Lake broke after similarly heavy rains in late October 2016.

This includes running tracks above or below roadways to avoid railroad crossings and fencing off areas to avoid collisions with animals, people and road vehicles.

(I was reminded of certain TV comedy skits where the heroic canine, running to get help, barks for about thirty seconds and the strangers he's communicating with deduce that the sawmill's on fire, the heroine is tied to the railroad tracks AND the mortgage is overdue!)

A young woman and two young men flee from soldiers and run across a railroad track as a train passes behind them.

«I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say — I never ran my train of the track, and I never lost a passenger.»

On my Underground Railroad I never run my train off the track and I never lost a passenger,» said the woman who led over 300 slaves to freedom.

In addition to beautiful beaches, East Lyme is home to the Niantic Bay Boardwalk, a one mile long walkway running parallel to the Amtrak railroad tracks and overlooking the beautiful Long Island Sound, and offers boutique shops, antique shops and a variety of restaurants.

The San Clemente Pedestrian Beach Trail runs along the inside of the railroad tracks.

In GoldRush, the attacking team must push a cart forward along a series of railroad tracks past a series of checkpoints, while the defending team is charged with preventing their progress until time runs out.»

Railroad rights - of - way, in carefully selected locales, provide ample space for the production of wind power, while the trains themselves are perfectly suited not only for running on the converted energy of the wind but for carrying locally manufactured, 200 - foot windmill blades to new sites along the tracks.

There is only one single - track railroad in Alaska that runs from the Pacific Coast to Fairbanks, far from the coal measures in the northwest part of the state and adjacent to the Arctic Ocean.

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.

When discussing what to do when your car breaks down on a railroad track, I used to say «abandon the car immediately and run toward the train» because when the train hits the car, the debris will go with the train.