But anybody who promises a substantial volume of business can get a railroad to run a short spur to his plant these days, and many businesses can live without the railroad.

That railroad spur, the Nevada-California-Oregon Railway line running from Lakeview to Reno, Nevada, emphasized the isolation of the county from the rest of Oregon.

Three men who helped to perpetrate this swindle, including the county attorney and a judge of the county court, were shot and killed on April 24, 1872 while on board a Katy railroad spur between Bryson, Missouri and Paola, Kansas ( in or near what is now known as Gunn City ).

It is named after Loyd Grisham, a man who helped build a railroad spur here from the Belmont Branch Railroad around 1910.

" Minidoka was first used in 1883 as a name for the Union Pacific's Oregon Short Line, a railroad spur in the middle of the Snake River Plain.

A railroad spur from Columbus, Georgia was completed the next year and in 1883 the town name was changed to Hurtsboro.

Southern Pacific Railroad built the first railroad spur to Whittier in 1887.

The railroad spur helped promote the boom of the 1880s.

Served by a railroad spur from Riverside, the city became a trading center for the San Jacinto Valley's agriculture, which included citrus, apricots, peaches, olives and walnuts.

In addition there is an abandoned railroad spur owned by the Florida Midland Railroad that once led to Leesburg, but now runs along Sumter County Road 44A and was the home for some abandoned freight cars until some point in the first decade of the 21st Century.

The Knickerbocker Ice Company built a plant ( 1888 ) on the south shore of Deep Lake with a railroad spur to the site.

The railroad line was closed, and the tracks removed in 1988, leaving only a small spur line outside of town which connects to Mount Vernon, Kentucky.

This spur links the two main lines of the railroad in southeastern Massachusetts ; the easternmost heads to Cape Cod via the line used by the MBTA, and the westernmost proceeds to split in Taunton, sending two lines towards Fall River and New Bedford, respectively.

However, the railroad did extend a spur line in order to serve Columbus, and that spur line joins the main line at the site of present-day Artesia.

In May 1942, construction workers descended upon an area known to locals as the " Blue Flats " because of the color of the soil and began building a railroad spur for the new air base.

Later on, a spur line was built from Lamy to Santa Fe, bringing the railroad to Santa Fe at last.

The next year the railroad completed a spur from Socorro, originally intended to ship cattle from the Plains of San Agustin, but which also proceeded to ship out ore from the Kelly Mine and others.

The building had its own railroad spur that allowed boxcars to be unloaded inside, making delivery of goods to the building easier.

The bricks were shipped out by railroad using a LIRR spur which ran along what is now N. 23rd Street.

By 1880 two railroad lines passed through the community, helping to spur economic and population growth.

A railroad spur led from the No. 2 past the No. 4 breaker in Kingston, Pennsylvania | Kingston ( shown on the far lower right of the map ).

Between 1866 and 1871, the Jefferson Branch, a railroad spur of the D & H Canal Company., was built in Forest Mills.

Faith was the permanent end of the railroad, a local spur off the Milwaukee Road Railroad.

Until internal combustion became cheap, he had to be near a railroad siding and a trolley line or an existing large community of lower-class homes.

Vermont's main railroad line was prostrate.

Often, threading through the overcast, he was forced to fly close to the ground by a low ceiling, skimming above the Winooski or the White River along the line of the broken railroad.

A railroad line arrived in 1852, fostering the development of other industries.

Construction was stopped on a 7-block extension to the line due to the removal and scrapping of rails, ties, and other items of railroad equipment by the DOT, which were stored on land that was slated for the " Fairway " supermarket project.

:* Battle of Utoy Creek, August 5 – 7, 1864, Sherman's failed attempt to break the railroad line into Atlanta from the east, heavy Union losses.

In the early 1950s a Dr. Lyne Borst of Utah University was given funding by various US railroad line and manufactures to study the feasibility of an electric drive locomotive in which an on board atomic reactor produced the steam to generate the electricity.

The Malian portion of the railroad carried an estimated 536, 000 tons of freight and 778, 000 passengers in 1999, but the track is in poor condition and the line is closed frequently during the rainy season.

The port had been built from scratch, beginning in 1905, to complement the railroad line from Khartoum to the Red Sea by serving as the entry and exit point for the foreign trade the rail line was to carry.

Between Istanbul and Ankara, a high speed railroad line is being constructed now next to the normal speed railroad which is being renovated.

Construction of a high speed railroad line between Ankara and Konya was begun in order to connect the two cities with a direct line and reduced travel time from several hours to approximately one hour.

The high speed railroad line between Ankara and Konya was finished in 3 June 2011 and was put into service in 23 August 2011.

In 2005 Turkmenistan had 2, 440 kilometers of railroad line, most of which runs close to the northern and southern borders.

Maj. Gen. Franz Sigel was to capture the railroad line at Lynchburg, move east, and attack from the Blue Ridge Mountains.

* Track warrant, railroad line permission for a train's use of the main line

The First Transcontinental Railroad ( known originally as the " Pacific Railroad " and later as the " Overland Route ") was a railroad line built in the United States of America between 1863 and 1869 by the Central Pacific Railroad of California and the Union Pacific Railroad that connected its statutory Eastern terminus at Council Bluffs, Iowa / Omaha, Nebraska ( via Ogden, Utah, and Sacramento, California ) with the Pacific Ocean at Oakland, California on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay opposite San Francisco.

Completion of the railroad was the culmination of a decades-long movement to build such a line.

In August 1870 the Kansas Pacific laid the last spike connecting to the Denver Pacific line at Strasburg, Colorado and the first true Atlantic to Pacific United States railroad was completed.

Thousands of communities in the northern plains states ( such as Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota ) became railroad ghost towns when a rail line failed to materialize.

It is also the terminus of the Dakar-Niger railroad line.

In 1865 the first railroad line opened ( to Koluszki, branch line of the Warsaw-Vienna Railway ), and soon the city had rail links with Warsaw and Białystok.