The passage of the Homestead Act and the Pacific Railway Acts was made possible by the absence of Southern congressmen and senators who had opposed the measures in the 1850s.

Alexandria is served by the Norfolk & Southern Railway with a connector which allows rail traffic to flow smoothly between lines servicing east – west and north – south destinations.

Instead, from 1 January 1923, almost all the remaining companies were grouped into the " big four ", the Great Western Railway, the London and North Eastern Railway, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the Southern Railway companies ( there were also a number of other joint railways such as the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway and the Cheshire Lines Committee as well as special joint railways such as the Forth Bridge Railway, Ryde Pier Railway and at one time the East London Railway ).

Rail service is provided by the city-owned Columbia Terminal ( COLT ) Railroad, which runs from the north side of Columbia to Centralia and a connection to the Norfolk Southern Railway.

Southern Bridge, Island Bridge, Railway Bridge, Stone Bridge and Shroud Bridge, Riga.

The Texas and Pacific reached town in 1876 ; the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway ( later merged into the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway ) and the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway in 1887 ; the Texas Midland ( later Southern Pacific ) in 1894 ; and the Paris and Mount Pleasant ( Pa-Ma Line ) in 1910.

Johann became a telegraph operator on the Southern Austrian Railway, and at the time of Rudolf's birth was stationed in Kraljevec in the Muraköz region, then part of the Austrian Empire ( present-day Donji Kraljevec, Međimurje region, northernmost Croatia ).

Freight rail service in Toledo is operated by the Norfolk Southern Railway, CSX Transportation, Canadian National Railway, Ann Arbor Railroad, and Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway.

* GS & WR Class D10, a Great Southern and Western Railway Irish steam locomotive model

* Norfolk Southern Railway, an American railroad company

This unit is one of several SD70ACe locomotives the UP has painted in stylized colors to help preserve the image of the railroads it has merged ; the others are Missouri Pacific Railroad, Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, Chicago and North Western Railway, Southern Pacific Railroad, and Western Pacific Railroad.

* The former Colorado & Southern Railway line from Leadville to Climax is now operated as a tourist line by Leadville, Colorado & Southern Raiload.

However, Hill, without the benefit of a central company, managed to acquire the Colorado and Southern Railway lines into Texas, and to build the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway.

The development of the independence of the dominions, and the creation of a number of new dominions, as well as the invitation of Southern Rhodesia ( which also attended as a sui generis colony ), changed the nature of the meetings.

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This similarly occurs in the Southern Hemisphere for objects with declinations less ( i. e. more negative ) than-90 ° − ( where is always a negative number for southern latitudes ).

A large number of myths about Enki have been collected from many sites, stretching from Southern Iraq to the Levantine coast.

One way to survive here is to burrow into the sands, as a number of the desert's animals, including the endangered Southern Marsupial Mole ( notoryctes typhlops ), and the Water-holding Frog do.

Bauxite was mined for a number of years in recent times at a site near Miragoâne on the Southern peninsula.

Lewis taught a film directing class at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles for a number of years ; his students included Steven Spielberg and George Lucas.

Methodism boasts the largest number of higher education ministries, including teaching positions, of any Protestant denomination in the world in close competition with the Southern Baptist Convention.

The combined Papal-Byzantine forces joined with the rebels against the Normans in Southern Italy, achieving a string of rapid successes as a number of cities yielded either to the threat of force or the lure of gold.

By 1984, before the Southern Reach was closed, the number of passengers had declined to less than 60, 000 per year and the tonnage to less than 150, 000.

Star names from these catalogues include the initials of which of the four catalogues they are from ( though the Southern follows the example of the Bonner and uses BD ; CPD is often shortened to CP ), followed by the angle of declination of the star ( rounded towards zero, and thus ranging from + 00 to + 89 and-00 to-89 ), followed by an arbitrary number as there are always thousands of stars at each angle.

A number of historians argue that Shaka ' changed the nature of warfare in Southern Africa ' from ' a ritualised exchange of taunts with minimal loss of life into a true method of subjugation by wholesale slaughter '.

Southern blots performed with restriction enzyme-digested genomic DNA may be used to determine the number of sequences ( e. g., gene copies ) in a genome.

A number of traditions make reference to a Southern Shaolin Monastery located in Fujian province.

He favored a limited number of troops to be stationed in the South — sufficient numbers to protect Southern Freedmen, suppress the violent tactics of the Ku Klux Klan ( KKK ), and prop up Republican governors, but not so many as to create resentment in the general population.

The largest Fox affiliate ( in terms of Nielsen market ranking ) without any news programming whatsoever is WUTV / Buffalo, which is within range of Toronto and targets Southern Ontario heavily with its syndicated programs and advertising and has long opted to air sitcom reruns instead of investing in a news department or contracting news programming to another station in a television market with a large number of stations available from Buffalo, Hamilton and Toronto that produce local newscasts already.

The number of inhabitants in the Southern Continent is probably more than 50 millions, considering the extent, from the eastern part discovered by Juan Fernandez, to the western coast seen by Tasman, is about 100 deg.

Within the city-state the Elbe has a number of branch streams, such as Dove Elbe, Gose Elbe, Köhlbrand, Northern Elbe ( Norderelbe ), Reiherstieg, Southern Elbe ( Süderelbe ).

The fragile X abnormality is now directly determined by analysis of the number of CGG repeats using polymerase chain reaction ( PCR ) and methylation status using Southern blot analysis.

Worldwide, there are 1100 known species of blowflies, with 228 species in the Neotropics, and a large number of species in Africa and Southern Europe.

LGBT communities organize a number of events to celebrate their culture, such as Pride parades, the Gay Games and Southern Decadence.

A number of sources claim that the people of Sheba from Southern Arabia controlled trade in the Red Sea, and expanded at some point from Arabia into Africa to found trading posts in Ethiopia

The Southern District of New York and the Central District of California are the largest federal districts by number of judges, with 28 and 27, respectively.

Portions of the route between Southern California and the Bay Area are named El Camino Real or El Camino Real Freeway, but such names are rarely used colloquially ; the route number is used instead.

When the Ming Dynasty Chinese astronomer Xu Guangqi adapted the European southern hemisphere constellations to the Chinese system in The Southern Asterisms, he combined Apus with some of the stars in Octans to form the " Exotic Bird " ( 異雀, Yìquè ).

" Sam Marx, a close friend of Thalberg's from New York, recalled how Thalberg adapted quickly to Southern California, and that he often stood outside his doorway during moments of contemplation and took in the scenery or sunsets.

This success of this species is due to its specialized predation on the abundant Antarctic krill of the Southern Ocean, for which it has uniquely adapted sieve-like tooth structure.

Flocks of guineafowl have flourished in recent years in the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town, where they seem to have adapted remarkably well.

Five of the recorded songs are yodels-" Sleep, Baby, Sleep ", " Comic Yodle Song ", " Coo Coo " ( J K Emmett's Cuckoo Song, adapted for Anderson's famous 60-second sustained soprano note ), " Laughing Yodel " and " Roll On Silver Moon ", a sentimental ballad, similar to Jimmie Rodgers ' various Southern ballad recordings.

The book was adapted in 1965 by Terry Southern into a sprawling film of the same name, billed as The motion picture with something to offend everyone!

Other Athabaskan speakers, perhaps including the Southern Athabaskan, adapted many of their neighbors ' technology and practices in their own cultures.

Southern desert bighorn sheep are adapted to a desert mountain environment with little or no permanent water.

* The Western Mansion ( Southern version, adapted from Wang Shifu's zaju )

It was at their insistence that footage from The Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross ( the series adapted as the Robotech Masters segment of the Robotech TV series ) and Megazone 23 be spliced together to produce a more action-oriented movie.

This was adapted for the DC third-rail system that was adopted as standard by the Southern Railway, with unit type being given a three-letter code ( sometimes two letters ) prefixed by the number of carriages within each unit, e. g. 4SUB for a 4-car suburban set.

Presumably, the immigrants from Norway and Sweden adapted their low context Jante Law to the seemingly similar but very different Southern United States high context Polite society-forming the unique midwest culture amongst Western cultures that is called ' Minnesota Nice '.

Before its voyage the boat was strengthened and adapted by ship's carpenter Harry McNish, to withstand the mighty seas of the Southern Ocean.

In real life, the name came from The Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross, the Japanese animated series adapted for the Robotech Masters segment of Robotech.

The character was adapted from the originally unrelated characters Komilia Maria Fallyna Jenius in The Super Dimension Fortress Macross and Jeanne Francaix in Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross.

Dana Sterling is adapted from the character Jeanne Fránçaix, of the anime Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross.

The landscaped area around the buildings on campus demonstrates a wide variety of plants adapted to the arid inland area of Southern California.

The script, adapted from Richard Jessup's novel, was written by Ring Lardner Jr. and Terry Southern ; it was Lardner's first major studio work since his 1947 blacklisting as one of The Hollywood Ten .< ref name =" fn98n8 ">

Doris Lessing's Southern Rhodesia novel The Grass is Singing was adapted into a film by a Swedish company and released in 1981.

In 1967 it was adapted by Terry Southern and Roger Vadim and made into a major motion picture, with Forest acting as design consultant.