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In 1971 the passenger operations of the former Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway Company, which had absorbed lessor Staten Island Railway Company in 1944, were acquired from its parent Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and the Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway Company was renamed Staten Island Railroad Corporation, which still exists as a subsidiary of the CSX Corporation.
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Thus the B Series, introduced for 1971, offered both car-like comfort in its Sportsman passenger line or expansive room for gear and materials in its Tradesman cargo line.
The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak, is operated and managed as a for-profit corporation and began operations on May 1, 1971, to provide intercity passenger train service in the United States.
By 1971, when the line was purchased by the conglomerate Trafalgar House, Cunard operated cargo and passenger ships, hotels and resorts.
Dothan was also a stop for two Seaboard Coast Line local passenger trains from Waycross, Georgia to Montgomery, Alabama until 1971.
The small Amtrak station in downtown Kingman is a historically significant building, constructed in Mission Revival Style architecture ; however, prior to the establishment of Amtrak in 1971, the structure had fallen into disrepair with the decline of passenger rail service in the U. S.
Plant City Union Depot served both the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and Seaboard Air Line Railroad even after the merger into the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad until passenger service ceased operations in 1971, and has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1975.
Seaboard trains continued to stop at the Indiantown depot through the 1960s but passenger service to the station was eliminated when Amtrak took over in 1971.
It operated until April 30, 1971, when Amtrak took over most U. S. rail passenger service and discontinued this route.
In 2006, the city government authorized the demolition of the historic Seaboard rail station, which had survived intact in private hands since passenger service to the station halted in 1971.
The decline continued until the early 1970s culminating with the end of passenger rail service effective May 1, 1971 and the closing of the local high school two years later.
The town once had a station on the Binghamton branch of the Erie Lackawanna Railway, but passenger service on this branch ceased in 1971 ; the branch has since been taken over by Conrail.
After the assumption of intercity rail passenger services by Amtrak in 1971, it has been bypassed by all Amtrak, except for the period from April 30, 1978 to October 29, 1983 when the Chesapeake stopped once daily in each direction between Philadelphia and Washington.
Up until April 30, 1971, Rockwood was a stop on the Baltimore & Ohio's daily Washington — Akron passenger train.
A brick depot was soon established at the end of Broadway Street and handled passenger and freight traffic until 1971.
Compounded with the opening of the Kingsway road tunnel on 28 June 1971 and a further decline in passenger numbers ( only 4, 000-5, 000 a day ), the future of the service was uncertain.
* Columbian ( B & O train ), a passenger train operated by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad until 1971
The brakes were problematic: a 1971 survey of passenger cars registered in Sweden during 1967 place the HB Viva at the top of a list of cars identified as having faulty brakes as part of an annual testing procedure.
* Lone Star ( Amtrak train ), an Amtrak passenger train serving Chicago, Kansas City, Oklahoma City, Fort Worth, Houston and intermediate points from 1971 – 1974
In 1971, Congress created Amtrak, a government corporation, which began to operate a skeleton passenger service on the tracks of PC and other U. S. railroads.
* 1971: Congress creates Amtrak and eliminates several passenger routes.
The current passenger concourses were built in 1971 as part of an expansion that tripled the size of the airport.
However, by the arrival of the Boeing 747 on 3 September 1971, the existing terminal had reached its capacity, and modeling of future passenger numbers showed it would be unable to handle any further increases in passenger demand.
In 1971, Condor became the world's first leisure airline to add the Boeing 747 ( at that time the largest passenger aircraft ) to its fleet.
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In 1971, Cavenham Foods acquired the Bovril Company but then sold most of its dairies and South American operations to finance further take-overs.
Harbor activity is concentrated at Abidjan ( West Africa ’ s largest container port ), which has facilities that include a fishing port and equipment for handling containers, and San Pedro, a deepwater port that began operations in 1971.
The FBI has used covert operations against domestic political groups since its inception ; however, covert operations under the official COINTELPRO label took place between 1956 and 1971.
Although Admiral Aziz Mirza ( a life-long friend of Musharraf shared the dorm with the admiral in 1960s and graduated together from the academy ) was appointed by Prime minister Nawaz Sharif, Mirza remained extremely supportive to Musharraf's coup and was also a close friend of Musharraf since 1971 when both participate in an joint operations against Indian Army.
From 1971 until the end of 1987, Warner's international distribution operations were a joint venture with Columbia Pictures, and in some countries, this joint venture also distributed films from other companies ( like EMI Films and Cannon Films in the UK ).
Attempts to re-establish contact were finally discontinued and the operations of Lunokhod 1 officially ceased on October 4, 1971, the anniversary of Sputnik 1.
In 1970, in response to the decline, Congress and President Richard Nixon created Amtrak, which was to begin operations on May 1, 1971.
The operations of Lunokhod officially ceased on 4 October 1971, the anniversary of Sputnik 1, after having travelled over 10. 5 kilometers while taking pictures and performing numerous tests.
The Council ceased its operations on October 1, 1971 with its merger with Eastern Connecticut Council to form Indian Trails Council.
These operations were conducted from 1824 until 1971.
It was formed in 1971 and started operations in 1972.
When the company set about establishing operations down under in 1971, it found that its business name was already trademarked by a takeaway food shop in Adelaide.
From 1971 until the end of 1987, Columbia's international distribution operations were a joint venture with Warner Bros., and in some countries, this joint venture also distributed films from other companies ( like EMI Films and Cannon Films in the UK ).
The flight marked the return of the Soviets to manned space operations after the 1971 accident.
Congress created OPIC in 1969 through an amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act, and the agency began operations in 1971, during the Nixon Administration, with a portfolio of $ 8. 4 billion in political risk insurance and $ 169 million in loan guaranties.
By 1971, regular scheduled airline operations were conducted by Delta Air Lines, and the former Eastern Air Lines, National Airlines and Southern Airways.
During the next six months, about 60 Guardsmen were rotated through the latter installation on 30 to 60 day tours in Operation " Commando Buzz ," Their aircraft served as flying radar stations and airborne control platforms for U. S. air operations in SEA until January 1971.
Although a 1968 referendum to fund MARTA failed, in 1971, Fulton and DeKalb Counties successfully passed a 1 % sales tax increase to pay for operations, while Clayton and Gwinnett counties overwhelmingly rejected the tax in referendum, fearing the introduction of crime and " undesirable elements ".
When six of the eight station chain became operational in 1971, day-to-day operations were managed by the United States Coast Guard in partnership with Argentina, Norway, Liberia, and France.
Between 1967 and 1971, most of the communists were defeated and towards the end of the Vietnam War, American forces moved their Indochinese military operations to Nakhon Phanom.
Reuther's death in a plane crash on May 9, 1970, near Black Lake, Michigan, dealt a serious blow to the Alliance, and the group halted operations in July 1971 after the Auto Workers ( almost bankrupt from a lengthy strike at General Motors ) was unable to continue to fund its operations.
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