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Before the CPRR was completed, developers were building other railroads in Nevada and California to connect to it.
Before railroads and highways were developed, the Rhone was an important inland trade and transportation route, connecting the cities of Arles, Avignon, Valence, Vienne and Lyon to the Mediterranean ports of Fos, Marseille and Sète.
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 railroads came in the 1880s, Eustis was a busy port for steamers plying Lakes Harris, Eustis, Dora, and Griffin.
Before the railroads crisscrossed the territory of Goodhue County.
Before roads and railroads connected the village to other nearby settlements, such as Milford, most residents of Terrace Park kept cattle and chickens, and engaged in other agricultural activities for their own subsistence, and had " homesteads " as opposed to the ordered residential village of today.
Before railroads came to Sidney, it was the only alternative to muddy unpaved roads.
Before the turn of the century, early pioneers, many of them silver miners, arrived from the East by way of the Northern Pacific and Great Northern railroads, for which Spokane was a major hub.
Before the advent of the railroads, the canal allowed shippers to cut many miles off the route from the Pennsylvania coal fields, down the Delaware, around Cape May, and up along the ( occasionally treacherous ) Atlantic Ocean coast to New York City.
Before the era of modern highways, many passenger and freight steamer routes linked the entire Chesapeake Bay region and connected with the railroads developed after 1830.
Before the railroads offered an easier crossing in 1869, perhaps half a million emigrants would trek through South Pass.
Before the advent of the railroads, the Kama was connected by important portages with the basins of the Northern Dvina and the Pechora.
Before roads, canals, and railroads, the Grand River was an important navigational route through the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, used for centuries by various Native American tribes and later by explorers, fur traders, and white settlers.
Before railroads were built, all freight and passengers were transported by teams of from 10 to 16 horses or mules.
Before railroads existed the ice was transported by wagon or sleigh to Boston or other northern ports where it was stored in ice houses until it could either be loaded aboard ships for shipment elsewhere or sold for local consumption.
Before the new USRA standard locomotive types were built and released, locomotives that builders had on hand were issued to various railroads.
Before the city of Rochelle built the park, railfans typically parked just short of an interchange siding connecting the two railroads in the northern quadrant of the crossing.
Before the development of railroads in the 19th century, infantry armies got to the battlefield by walking, or sometimes by ship.
Before the Civil War, the Virginia Board of Public Works had invested state funds in a substantial portion of the stock of the A, M & O's predecessor railroads.
Before dieselization the PRSL was more apt to lease its motive power from either of its parent railroads as it completely lacked any heavy passenger locomotives ( like 4-6-2 Pacifics ).
Before the Center City Commuter Connection opened in November 1984, the Pennsylvania Railroad commuter lines and the Reading commuter lines were two completely separate railroads.
Before the American Civil War, both the Portsmouth and Roanoke Railroad and the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad were built through Suffolk, early predecessors of 21st century Class 1 railroads operated by CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern respectively.
* Location: Before the widespread use of steam power and railroads, most factories were located at water power sites and near water transportation.
Before the railroads arrived in Texas the 1870s cattle drives took large herds from Texas to the railheads in Kansas.

Before and reached
Before beginning Ideen Husserl's thought had reached the stage where " each subject is ' presented ' to itself, and to each all others are ' presentiated ' ( Vergegenwartigung ), not as parts of nature but as pure consciousness.
Before he had finished, Thatcher " reached into her briefcase and took out a book.
Before he reached the post, he had occasionally been mentioned in western newspapers as a likely next leader and a man of the younger generation at the top level.
Before they reached the city, however, the remains were seized by some citizens of Ravenna and buried there in the Church of Santa Maria Rotonda, the burial place of Theodoric the Great.
Before her death in 1198, she named Innocent as guardian of the young Frederick until he reached his maturity.
Before the theory of continental drift, glacial deposits in Carboniferous strata in tropical continents areas such as India and South America led to speculation that the Karoo Ice Age glaciation reached into the tropics.
Before his return, Adorno had not only reached an agreement with a Tübingen publisher to print an expanded version of Philosophy of New Music, but completed two compositions: Four Songs for Voice and Piano by Stefan George, op. 7, and Three Choruses for Female Voices from the Poems of Theodor Daubler, op.
Before Buran, no project of the program reached production.
Before they even reached the Pacific a large amount of the expedition had died from disease, and they were in no shape to launch any sort of attack.
Before the treaty reached the Senate for ratification, and even before news of its signing reached New Orleans, a massive British invasion force was utterly defeated at the Battle of New Orleans, which made a national hero out of General Andrew Jackson.
Before a host plant is reached, the dodder, as other plants, relies on food reserves in the embryo ; the cotyledons, though present, are vestigial.
Before Hurricane David, annual output had reached about 7, 500 cu m ( 265, 000 cu ft ).
Before 09: 00, small parties from F / 116 and B / 116 reached the crests just east of Dog White.
Before he reached 19 years of age, Fargue had already published in L ' Art littéraire in 1894 and his important poem Tancrède appeared in the magazine Pan in 1895.
Before a truce was reached, three members of the IRSP were dead.
Before the war, the population had reached more than 3, 000.
Before the visitors were aware of it, the priest reached to a bureau drawer, pulled out a revolver, and pointing at the men said: ' Now you fellows have made trouble enough in this congregation.
Before the reign of John III, the Portuguese had already reached Siam ( 1511 ), the Moluccas ( 1512 ), the Chinese littoral ( 1513 ), Canton ( 1517 ) and Timor ( 1515 ).
Before Columbus even reached Isabella I of Castile, John II had already sent a letter to them threatening to send a fleet to claim it for Portugal.
Before it reached him, Ruhnken wrote a kind letter to Wyttenbach, which the recipient " read, re-read and kissed ," and another on receipt of the tract, in which the great scholar declared that he had not expected to find in Germany such knowledge of Greek, such power of criticism, and such mature judgment, especially in one so young.
Before the goal itself can be reached, necessary conditions must first be met.
Before, however, his Paper could be published, the works of Lassen and Burnouf reached him, necessitating a revision of his Paper and the postponement of its publication.
In 1984, Blancmange covered ABBA's single " The Day Before You Came ", which reached no.
Before 5 October 2007 Jaguar, while still controlled by Ford, reached agreement to permit then de-merging DaimlerChrysler to extend its use of the name Daimler.

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