Sentences with phrase «railroad yard»

Jameson also reacted to what he called «misleading and erroneous statements» made at the previous hearing by Rod Futerfas, attorney for the opponents, referring to contamination at CMRR's Cornell Street railroad yard in Kingston.

One of the most popular Portland destinations, the Pearl District is a shining example of urban renewal — what was once an area of industrial warehouses and abandoned railroad yards is now the city's most cosmopolitan neighborhood.

The park — which is being built over the old railroad yard in the northwest corner of Grant Park — will cost $ 230 million and is scheduled for completion by the summer of 2001, a year after Mayor Richard M. Daley's original target.

There are some moments of beauty, however, as moonlight washes down on roving windmills in the distance and dilapidated railroad yards sit in rusted valleys.

A former railroad yard, this urban park uses historical artifacts and exhibits to bring to life the controversial and danger - filled construction of the Hoosac Tunnel, one of the greatest engineering feats of the 19th century.

Its economy is based on farming and ranching, and its near center position in the U.S. has made it a major transportation hub with the country's largest railroad yards.

A 770 - acre area whose principal feature used to be a derelict railroad yard just east of downtown Spokane is blossoming into Spokane's most vibrant area.

Explore the ominous corridors of once the most famous restaurant in Harran, and employ both stealth and combat to ransack a zombie - filled loading bay at the abandoned railroad yard

They turned it into a railroad yard.

The CSX representative said the railroad yard at the Central Terminal is one of the state's busiest and that it would not want to risk delays by having Amtrak service operating there.

Indeed, digs are under way in such unlikely places as a railroad yard eight miles west in East St. Louis, where a new bridge is scheduled.

The action pivots on an attempted car heist at a railroad yard during which Ivan is killed — an incident that occurs just before the film starts.

The trains are filmed lovingly and there's some great footage of turntables, railroad yards, and level - crossing train passages to go with plenty of shots of trains roaring along under full throttle.

In later years it was a railroad yard where goods and other materials used to come through the area.

Currently overgrown with invasive plant species that compete with native plants, the site is in a state of transition between its past as a railroad yard and its future as an urban state park.

Yardmasters are also responsible for the operational and personal safety of the yard staff and railroad yard.

Supervised and coordinated activities of switch - engine crew engaged in switching railroad cars in railroad yards, industrial plants and similar locations to facilitate loading and unloading of cars and the making up and breaking up of trains