He further stated that the harm to the cattle industry, combined with the railroad stopping the laying of track outside of Fort Worth, had caused Fort Worth to become such a drowsy place that he saw a panther ( cougar, mountain lion ) asleep in the street by the courthouse.

These limitations, combined with an increase in railroad traffic, led to the decline of the canals.

The two engines, pulling wagons filled with railroad ties, traveled a track and thunderously crashed into each other at a combined speed of up to.

A labor riot at the mines in the late 1870s interrupted the flow of coal, and this combined with the poor financial state of the railroad led to the removal of most of the track by 1880 ; the remaining portion was removed a few years later.

Grenola was established in 1879 when two towns, Green Field and Canola, combined after the railroad was built in between the two towns.

The combined townsite arrived at its present name in 1864, when the Union Pacific Railroad bought a piece of ground for a depot on the proposed transcontinental railroad.

The result was a boom period where railroad access and political importance combined to lead to significant population growth in Carrizozo.

The new railroad, combined with the emergence of Merrick Road as a major artery, caused Valley Stream to grow into a substantial community.

The railroad, combined with a rapidly expanding mining industry ( the town is the namesake of the famous Spruce Pine Mining District ) made Spruce Pine the largest town in the Toe River Valley, as it became the hub of commerce and culture for the area.

The combined economic base of the railroad and sawmills accounted for the population growth of the 1960s and ' 70s.

It is believed by some that a railroad official combined the names of two prominent locals ' daughters Minnie and Olla to create the city name Mineola.

In 1907, the Tidewater Railway was combined with the Deepwater Railway ( initially a West Virginia short line railroad ) to form the new Virginian Railway.

An exception is the case of rail transport by which rail tracks combined together with railroad switches ( and also known as ' points ' in British English ) provide the steering function.

The deal did not remain secret long, and combined with what was considered his " insane " idea of making Indianapolis a hub for a great railroad system, and without a party to support him, he lost most of his public support.

* Pančevački most (" Pančevo bridge ") — a 1, 075 m long combined road and railroad truss bridge over the Danube, originally built in 1935.

Jackson & Woodin grew under this combined leadership to become the largest railroad freight car builder in the eastern United States, and was one of the 13 companies that merged in 1899 to form American Car and Foundry Company ( ACF ).

In 1976, much of the company's railroad assets were thus purchased by the federal government and combined with other companies ' railroad assets to form Conrail.

Many steam dummies were simply locomotives enclosed in coach's clothing, but some combined an actual railroad coach in the same body with the locomotive, creating an all-in-one vehicle that was a predecessor of later self-propelled rail cars, usually powered by electricity or petrol.

The Sandusky, however, was the first locomotive to feature counterweights in its driving wheels to offset the force of the piston stroke and the combined weight of the axle, wheels and piston rod against the railroad track.

The Boston and Worcester Rail Road and the Charles River Branch Railroad combined here to cross the Back Bay on a separate railroad bridge, making a beeline for the Leather District.

The first tier is based on combined railroad retirement and social security credits, using social security benefit formulas.

* October 13-Rio Grande Industries, the parent company of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, purchases the Southern Pacific Railroad ; the combined railroad takes SP's identity due to its brand status to shippers.

Thus in March 1979 Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who kept absolute power ( until his overthrow in 2011 referred to as " Guide of the Revolution "), after ten years as combined Head of State and Head of government of the Libyan Jamahiriya (" state of the masses "), styled Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council, formally transferred both qualities to the General secretaries of the General People's Congress ( comparable to a Speaker ) respectively to a Prime Minister, in political reality both were his creatures.

The primary application during the first 10 years of ALE use was government and military radio systems, and the limited customer base combined with the necessity to adhere to MILSPEC standards kept prices extremely high.

TAI is kept by the BIPM ( International Bureau of Weights and Measures ), and is based on the combined input of many atomic clocks around the world, each corrected for environmental and relativistic effects.

So they deliberately kept their respective syndicates out of the combined UPI company.

In presidential systems, the two roles are often combined into one, whereas in parliamentary systems of government the two are usually kept separate.

This great height, combined with the sheerness of the cliff walls, kept away all but the most determined visitors.

The light beams are combined in the VLTI using a complex system of mirrors in underground tunnels where the light paths must be kept equal to distances less than 1 / 1000 mm over a hundred metres.

The title track " Falling into You " and " River Deep, Mountain High " ( a Tina Turner cover ) made prominent use of percussion instruments ; " It's All Coming Back to Me Now " ( a remake of Jim Steinman's song ) and a remake of Eric Carmen's " All by Myself " kept their soft-rock atmosphere, but were combined with the classical sound of the piano ; and the number-one single " Because You Loved Me ", which was written by Diane Warren, was a ballad that served as the theme to the 1996 film Up Close & Personal.

Throughout the 1970s the government kept whittling away at the benefits offered to kei vehicles, which combined with ever stricter emissions standards to lower sales drastically through the first half of the decade.

Nevertheless, Young kept the team going in the NFL for seven years, during which they held a combined record of 5 wins, 26 losses, and 4 ties.

Rae kept this tradition going ; he finished almost 11, 000 votes ahead of his closest opponent and with more than 4, 400 votes than his five opponents combined ( 14, 187 to 9, 764 ).

In the meantime, Verdi kept toying with his Libera me, frustrated that the combined commemoration of Rossini's life would not be performed in his lifetime.

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, when the Galician and Roman practices were combined, the September date, for which the Vatican adopted the official name " Triumph of the Cross " in 1963, was used to commemorate the rescue from the Persians and the May date was kept as the " Invention of the True Cross " to commemorate the finding.

ARC dropped Pathé and Scranton Button's label Emerson but kept all of the other labels belonging to the combined company, including Banner, active.

Pacific Beach, combined with its close neighbor to the north, Moclips, is referred to by the North Beach Business Association as " Washington's best kept secret.

It is often combined with a Master Keyed system in which said key is kept by the landlord.

The boom operator and production sound mixer may often be combined into one job performed by one person, usually when the crew number is to be kept minimal, such as for documentaries or news collecting, or in low budget productions.

Turner kept ownership of the combined MGM / UA for just 74 days.

In 1917, Gilbert Vernam proposed a teleprinter cipher in which a previously prepared key, kept on paper tape, is combined character by character with the plaintext message to produce the cyphertext.

This, combined with the continuing demonstrations and attendant press coverage, kept pressure on the Wilson administration.

Thus, legislative and executive functions were combined under the leadership of parliament, and the court system was kept totally dependent on legislative definitions and appointments.

Vernam proposed a teleprinter cipher in which a previously-prepared key, kept on paper tape, is combined character by character with the plaintext message to produce the ciphertext.

The flavour of a korma is based on a mixture of spices, including ground coriander and cumin, combined with yogurt kept below curdling temperature and incorporated slowly and carefully with the meat juices.

When Tanganyika and Zanzibar combined to form Tanzania, Stone Town kept its role as a capital and government seat for Zanzibar, which was declared to be a semi-autonomous part of the new nation.