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Before the railroad was completed, winter set in and the last few miles, were laid upon the ice and snow as it was impossible to find the ground due to the snow drifts.
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Before reaching the Lebanese border and the Anti-Lebanon Mountains, the Jabal an Nusayriyah range terminates, leaving a corridor — the Homs Gap — through which run the highway and railroad from Homs to the Lebanese port of Tripoli.
Before the steamboat era faded, Camden had become a railroad town — served by the mainline of the Texas and St. Louis ( Cotton Belt ) and by branch lines of the Missouri Pacific and the Rock Island railroads.
Before that, around 1912, there was a saw mill south of the railroad tracks.
Before it was a town, it was a popular gathering place for railroad workers.
Before climbing a tributary up to Craigmont, the highway briefly paralleled a massive steel railroad trestle near its base, its track nearly 300 ( 91 m ) feet above the creek.
Before the downturn of the railroad industry, San Pierre had a train station at the intersection of the Monon and New York Central railways, and thus was a stop on the route of Abraham Lincoln's funeral train.
Before James J. Hill bought the Great Northern Railway in 1879 and accepted the task of completing the line from Crookston to the Canadian border, a French-Canadian man founded a town named Louisa, after the French king, in the path of the railroad.
Before the steel bridge was built in 1900, all timber north of Zalma had to be transported to Lutesville, the only outlet to the railroad, for after the mill dam was built, the river could be forded in dry seasons only.
Before a railroad bridge was built across the Missouri, freight cars were pushed onto barges on one side of the river, then pulled off on the other.
Before the establishment of centralized post offices, local offices were established in general stores, railroad depots and other public venues in densely populated areas.
Before 1854 " peaches were produced in large quantities and at profitable returns on the backbone hills of the island, which lie north of the main line of the Long Island railroad, near West Deer Park or Wyandance station.
Before the post office was established in 1912, Reedsport was a camp for railroad construction workers.
Before the days of the railroad, a tavern was located where the former station would later be built.
Before this time, railroad line s had been proposed, but due to a series of reorganizations and competition between companies for right-of-ways as of 1892, no track had been laid.
Before 1883, Willard was not much of a town but when the Rock Island Railroad laid tracks through the community, Willard became the typical railroad town.
Before the war, a lady did not set foot in a saloon ; after the war she entered a speakeasy as thoughtlessly as she would go into a railroad station.
Before the invention of the car, whiplash injuries were called " railroad spine " as they were noted mostly in connection with train collisions.
Before the Civil War, the railroad bypassed Clover Hill, now known as the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park.
* Before becoming a priest, Léger worked as a mechanic, railroad worker, and butcher.
Before the Dam was constructed, the town of Livermore served the area between Blairsville and Saltsburg as an important stop along the former canal, as well as the railroad.
Before the Second World War circulated, between Belfort and Réchésy a railroad of local interest with metric gauge track which crossed Grosne, Vellescot and Suarce.
Before the construction of the railroad in the beginning of the 20th century, the separation of the two parts of the country was even more distinct.
Before Flagler bought the line, the railroad stretched only between South Jacksonville and St. Augustine and lacked a depot sufficient to accommodate travelers to his St. Augustine resorts.
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Before the Draft Act was passed Baker had confidentially briefed governors, sheriffs, and prospective draft board members on the administration of the measure -- and the confidence was kept so well that only one newspaper learned what was going on.
Before the fight was over, the Harlem boy had a concussion and Trig was cut up badly.
Before he left the apartment he knocked on their door and asked if there was anything he could do for them.
Before he left town Pat saw to it that I was fixed up with a job.
Before the airplanes came, he said, travel in Laos was just about impossible.
Before coming on a visit to Spelman in 1885, Miss Mary had been a successful teacher in Worcester, and her position there was held open for her for a considerable period.
Before he was forty Griffith had created the art of the film.
Before appealing to the U.N. or to Russia, he first appealed to the U.S. for military help, and was rejected.
Before her chore was finished she was rescuing wind-blown sheets of music, trundling microphones about the stage, helping to move the piano and otherwise joining in the informal atmosphere.
Before ASCII was developed, the encodings in use included 26 alphabetic characters, 10 numerical digits, and from 11 to 25 special graphic symbols.
Before Europeans discovered other oceans, the term " ocean " itself was synonymous with the waters beyond the Strait of Gibraltar that we now know as the Atlantic.
Before he could pass the river with safety, however, it was necessary to subdue certain fortresses, one of which was for several days vigorously defended by the governor, Yussuf el-Harezmi, a Khwarezmian.
Before the 1989 series began, the win-loss ratio was almost even, with 87 wins for Australia to England's 86, 74 having been drawn.
Before the late modern era, the abbot was treated with the utmost reverence by the brethren of his house.
Before the creation of the world, God was all by Himself, in a Self-absorbed state.
Before the Tennessee electorate voted on secession, Johnson, at his peril, toured the state, speaking in opposition to the measure, contending it was unconstitutional.
Before his death, he was absolved from the excommunication ; moreover, the Pope also promised that the King of Hungary and his relatives would not be excommunicated without the special permission of the Pope.
Before the 2007 season began, Vick was suspended indefinitely by the NFL after pleading guilty to charges involving dog fighting in the state of Virginia.
Before the War, Paul was a creative, sensitive, and passionate person, writing poems and having a clear love for his family.
Before the war Tjaden was a locksmith.
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