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Hearst hopped into a private railroad car with Max Ihmsen and made an arduous personal canvass for delegates in the western and southern states, always wearing a frock coat, listening intently to local politicians, and generally making a good impression.
But by comparison with the railroad, the motor car is a relatively new object of popular worship, so it is too much to hope that it may be brought within the bounds of civilized usage quickly and easily.
With few exceptions, your car will be waiting for you at dockside, airport, railroad station or hotel when you arrive, oftentimes at no additional cost.
A large log being placed on a railroad car at Batottan, British North Borneo in 1926
Snake finds the President in a railroad car, but he is captured by the Duke's men.
That is, The Great Train Robbery contains scenes shot on sets of a telegraph station, a railroad car interior, and a dance hall, with outdoor scenes at a railroad water tower, on the train itself, at a point along the track, and in the woods.
* International Railway Systems, a Romanian freight railroad car producer
* 1973 – Catastrophic BLEVE ( Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion ) in Kingman, Arizona, following a fire that broke out as propane is being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, kills 11 firefighters.
By the time of the Los Angeles riots of 1992, Bush was a bit late in supporting enterprise zones, tenant ownership and welfare reform: Mort Zuckerman compared Bush's vision on racial issues to that of a man riding backwards in a railroad car.
* 1918 – World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne, France.
* Tank car, a railroad freight car designed for carrying bulk liquids
The molasses wave was of sufficient force to damage the girders of the adjacent Boston Elevated Railway's Atlantic Avenue structure and tip a railroad car momentarily off the tracks.
" Lorry " has a more uncertain origin, but probably has its roots in the railroad industry, where the word is known to have been used in 1838 to refer to a type of truck ( a freight car as in British usage, not a bogie as in the American ), specifically a large flat wagon.
Grant is thought by many to have been a target in the Lincoln assassination plot ; an unknown assailant allegedly failed in an attempt to break into Grant's railroad car.
* The railroad car in which Harding toured Alaska's " Westward " is on display at Pioneer Park in Fairbanks, Alaska, directly inside the main entrance to the park.
** WWI ends: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies between 5: 12 AM and 5: 20 AM in Marshal Foch ’ s railroad car in Compiègne Forest in France.
* June 21 – WWII: Vichy France and Germany sign an armistice at Compiegne, in the same wagon-lit railroad car used by Marshal Ferdinand Foch to accept the surrender of Germany in 1918.
As Washington rode in the late financier's private railroad car, " Dixie ", he stopped and made speeches at many locations, where his companions later recounted that he had been warmly welcomed by both black and white citizens at each stop.
The rocket was positioned on a railroad car in the Jackass Flats area of the Nevada Test Site, with the reactor specially modified so as to go critical.
In a funicular or cable railway a railroad car is pulled up a steep inclined plane using cables.
New York New Jersey Rail, LLC ( NYNJ ) is a switching and terminal railroad operates a car float operation across Upper New York Bay between the Greenville Yard in Jersey City and Brooklyn
Human-powered land vehicles, such as the handcar ( a human-powered railroad car ), normally travel at ground level but can also travel above ( for example, on a trestle ) and below ground ( such as when used in mining ).

railroad and President
-- President Kennedy today proposed a mammoth new medical care program whereby social security taxes on 70 million American workers would be raised to pay the hospital and some other medical bills of 14.2 million Americans over 65 who are covered by social security or railroad retirement programs.
President Grover Cleveland appointed Thomas M. Cooley, a railroad ally, as its first chairman and a permit system was used to deny access to new entrants and legalize price fixing.
However, the Court did uphold some economic regulation such as state prohibition laws ( Mugler v. Kansas ), laws declaring maximum hours for mine workers ( Holden v. Hardy, 1898 ), laws declaring maximum hours for female workers ( Muller v. Oregon, 1908 ), President Wilson's intervention in a railroad strike ( Wilson v. New, 1917 ), as well as federal laws regulating narcotics ( United States v. Doremus, 1919 ).
A year after President Harding contended with the 1921 mining labor war in West Virginia, a strike broke out during the summer of 1922 in the railroad industry.
President Harding proposed a settlement that gave the shop workers some concessions ; however, the railroad owners objected.
The trip continued to Fairbanks ( July 15 ) where it was decided ( July 16 ) that the President and his wife would return to Seward ( July 17 ) via the railroad.
The President personally engaged in talks with the Chinese to provide American assistance in the expansion of the Chinese railroad industry ; this was accomplished through participation in the multi-national Hukuang Loan.
* July 16 – Great railroad strike of 1877: Riots by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad railroad workers in Baltimore, Maryland lead to a sympathy strike and rioting in Pittsburgh, and a full-scale worker's rebellion in St. Louis, briefly establishing a Communist government before U. S. President Rutherford B. Hayes calls in the armed forces.
While the Pacific Railroad Act was to award the eastern contract to the newly formed Union Pacific, it was left up to then President Lincoln to formally choose the location for the railroad to start and Lincoln in 1862 was to follow the advice of his former client.
Brigham Young, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, wished to see the railroad support emigration and the population centers in Ogden and Salt Lake City, Utah.
President Cleveland sent federal troops to Illinois to end the Pullman strike — workers at the Pullman Palace Car Company, which made railroad cars, had struck after wages were cut.
Along with the Elkins Act of 1903, the Hepburn Act, named for its sponsor, eleven-term Republican William Peters Hepburn, was a subset of one of President Theodore Roosevelt's major goals: railroad regulation.
These were not the first presidents to come to Elko County: William McKinley visited in 1901 ; Herbert Hoover made his final campaign broadcast as president from a railroad car in Elko in 1932 ; President Roosevelt spoke in Carlin in 1938 during his whistle stop tour ; and Barack Obama visited while campaigning in 2008.
As Foley was traveling to President McKinley's funeral in 1901, he met a railroad agent who told him of the area in South Baldwin County.
The town is named in honor of Vice President Schuyler Colfax ( 1869 – 73 ), a bronze statue of whom stands on Main Street near the railroad station.
Later it was renamed Colfax after then Speaker of the House ( and later Vice President ) Schuyler Colfax who visited the town in 1865 while inspecting progress of construction of the Central Pacific Railroad, the western portion of the first transcontinental railroad.
The President of the Illinois Central Railroad proposed calling the new station " Heyworth ," after the name of an English director of the railroad.
Madison, named for James Madison, the fourth President of the United States, grew up along a bustling railroad track in antebellum Mississippi.
The LIRR built the original West Deer Park railroad station, which incorporated a post office, in May 1875 at the request of General James J. Casey, a brother-in-law of President Ulysses S. Grant.
Plankinton was named for Milwaukee meatpacker and hotel owner John Plankinton, a friend of Alexander Mitchell, the President of the Milwaukee Road railroad.
The town received its name from railroad developer William J. Hutchins, who was then President and General Manager of the Houston and Texas Central Railroad ( H & TC ).
The administration of President Franklin Pierce, strongly influenced by Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, saw an opportunity to acquire land for the railroad, as well as to acquire significant other territory from northern Mexico.

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