During the 19th century in the US, the length of canals grew from to over 4, 000, with a complex network making the Great Lakes navigable, in conjunction with Canada, although some canals were later drained and used as railroad rights-of-way.

He focused on arms manufacturing, as the US railroad market purchased from its own growing steel industry.

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 United States acquired the southwestern boot heel of the state and southern Arizona below the Gila river in the mostly desert Gadsden Purchase of 1853, which was related to the construction by the US of a transcontinental railroad.

The US Air Force and US Navy used napalm with great effect against all kinds of targets to include troops, tanks, buildings, jungles, and even railroad tunnels.

* On 7 July 2005 the Syrian General Establishment for the Hejaz Railway announced that it had signed a contract worth US $ 54 million with a Lebanese company to build a railroad between Damascus and Damascus International Airport.

* Various strikes occur in the United States: Strike of US railroad workers ; The Longshoreman's strike ; in addition to the Seattle General Strike and steel strike.

Established in 1834 and having operated continuously since then, it is the oldest US railroad still operating under its original name and charter.

Refrigerated railroad cars were introduced in the US in the 1840s for short-run transport of dairy products.

The Dunbar CB is nearest to Greencastle, which can be accessed via US 231 north, under the concrete railroad viaduct.

In addition a railroad between The cities of Havana & Matanzas was constructed to facilitate the transportation of sugar to the ports and be shipped to the US.

Proximity to Cuba made importation of " clear Havana tobacco " easy by sea, and Plant's railroad made shipment of finished cigars to the rest of the US market easy by land.

* Big Four ( Central Pacific Railroad ), US railroad entrepreneurs of the 19th century

There were three tollgates along the turnpike, one at around from Trenton, one at Ridge Road and one at the current railroad crossing for US 1.

This was because Route 33 ran alongside some railroad tracks at that point, and a massive overpass carried US 130 over both.

The road turns northeast and comes to an interchange with US 130 and continues closely parallel to the railroad line as it passes through more rural areas with some homes, coming to a junction with CR 684.

* Kirkwood ( Amtrak station ), railroad station in the US state of Missouri

* Kirkwood / La Salle Station, railroad station in San Francisco, in the US state of California

On the evening of March 15, 1881, three Cowboys attempted to rob a Kinnear & Company stagecoach carrying US $ 26, 000 in silver bullion ( about $ in today's dollars ) enroute from Tombstone to Benson, Arizona, the nearest railroad freight terminal.

Major transportation routes near / through Cabot are the railroad ( currently owned by Union Pacific ), the " old highway to St. Louis " ( currently Arkansas Highway 367 ), US Highway 67 / 167, and Interstate 40.

A block after the railroad crossing, Route 50 ends at an intersection with US 30 and CR 563 ( White Horse Pike ), with CR 563 continuing north on Philadelphia Avenue at this point.

The city is also home to the Western Pacific Railroad Museum ( formerly Portola Railroad Museum ), one of the largest railroad museums in the Western US.

Upon entering Folsom, the route passes over a Conrail Shared Assets Operations railroad line before coming to a cloverleaf interchange with US 322 ( Black Horse Pike ).

Walton Junction is a place just north of the community, named for the junction of two railroad lines, and is now at the junction of US 131 and M-113.

Similarly, in US slang, " meat-wagon " is used to refer to an ambulance

When a Swedish person uses the word jänkare, it usually refers to cars from the US, but could also be used as a slang term for any US citizen.

" In US naval slang, ballistic missile submarines are called boomers.

* Hillbilly armor: a US military slang term coined during the occupation to refer to the improvised vehicle armor being used by some US troops.

The word " schlager " is in limited use in the US as slang for music intended for young teenagers and tweens, including artists such as Avril Lavigne and Justin Bieber and on Hannah Montana, especially if the music contains sexual references or innuendo.

In US military slang, " ground truth " is used to describe the reality of a tactical situation as

Her years in the US are reflected in On Dearborn Street ( not published until 1981 ), a love story that uses American slang in a manner not dissimilar to the early work of Dashiell Hammett.

" Doc " is a common slang term for a physician ; dentist ; or, in the US Military, a Hospital Corpsman.

The term is still used as slang for US dollars in the French-speaking Caribbean islands, most notably Haiti.

" White Horse " is a funk-influenced dance track with a memorable bassline and ambiguous, drug-and / or sex-themed lyrics (" white horse " being slang for heroin ) that became popular in US clubs.

In US slang, cojones denotes “ brazen, brave attitude ”, pronounced and in English.

* Boob tube, US slang for a television set

Adlai Stevenson II | Adlai Stevenson was called an " egghead " by Richard Nixon during the U. S. presidential election, 1952 | 1952 US presidential race. In the slang of the United States, egghead is an anti-intellectual epithet, directed at people considered too out-of-touch with ordinary people and too lacking in realism, common sense, virility, etc.

* DERO or DEROS, abbreviation of Date of Expected ( or Estimated ) Return from Overseas, US military slang

* Doghouse: A slang term ( in the US, mostly ) for a raised portion of a ship's deck.

Not to be confused with Fog-Breather – US slang for a British person.

( Note that in US slang ' fanny ' instead refers to the buttocks, and ' Nookie ' is mainly a slang term for ' vagina ').

* Slightly contemptuous military slang used by US Army Airborne troops to refer to conventional infantry and other non-jumping Soldiers ; short for " straight leg " as originally non-airborne troops did not blouse their trousers into their boots like the Airborne, and thus lacked the distinctive crease just above the trouser hem.

The hip hop artwork and " slang " of US urban communities quickly found its way to Europe, as the culture's global appeal took root.