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The 1962 film How the West Was Won has a whole segment devoted to the construction ; one of the movie's most famous scenes, filmed in Cinerama, is of a buffalo stampede over the railroad.
The famous railroad disaster which killed engineer Casey Jones took place in Yazoo County, just north of Vaughan, Mississippi, in 1900.
It was moved three miles to the east to its present location of Maricopa in the early 1880s, and began its life as a famous railroad junction when the first M & P train left Maricopa for Phoenix on July 4, 1887.
The museum is famous for its Run A Locomotive program, where the public can participate in a " fantasy experience " program allowing them to run a railroad locomotive on the museum grounds.
After the Civil War ended in 1865, Adairsville rebuilt and became a hub for the carpet and textile industries, and for farm and transportation services, including its famous railroad.
During the early days, many famous residents have lived in the Grovetown area: Hayne, the literary figure ; Stewart Phinizy and James Tobin, cotton brokers ; Charles Phinizy, banker and railroad president ; Dr. H. H.
The Coleman Institute Catalog said that it was named for John Reynolds, one of Georgia's famous governors, while another source said it was named for the superintendent of the railroad at the time.
Dwight contains an original stretch of the famous U. S. Route 66, and uses a railroad station designed in 1891 by Henry Ives Cobb.
The town was laid out in 1874 and was named for Charles Dana who was a local railroad stockholder and famous newspaper editor.
According to available local sources, it was in 1883 that Charles Louis Fleischmann ( born near Budapest, Hungary, educated in Vienna and Prague, founder of the Fleischmann Company famous for its yeast and whiskey ), bought property west of the village near the Ulster & Delaware railroad station from John M. Blish.
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.
On this line, Kipton was the site of a famous train wreck on April 19, 1891, which was caused by railroad engineers ' watches not being in sync and led to the adoption of stringent quality-control standards for railroad chronometers in 1893.
Arguably Tamaqua's most famous landmark, it stood idle from the mid 80s through the late 90s after passenger railroad service to the town was discontinued.
Winfield's storied and colorful history includes ( in addition to railroad operations ) coal mining, brick and pottery mfg., and the famous Winfield Truck Stop.
Today, a portion of the line is used by the famous Heber Valley Railroad, a heritage railroad open to the public.
During the winter of 1861 and early 1862 the town was significantly fortified by the Confederacy and served as a supply depot for both sides at various points in the war, and is famous for being the site of the construction of the first railroad ever built exclusively for military use, the Centreville Military Railroad.
The Confederate forces did in fact take over the shipyard, and did so without armed conflict through an elaborate ruse orchestrated by civilian railroad builder William Mahone ( then President of the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad and soon to become a famous Confederate officer ).
Though a railroad had been built there, this road was removed around 1950 ; it is now part of the famous circle network in Belgian Limburg.
In 1899, Muir accompanied railroad executive E. H. Harriman and esteemed scientists on the famous exploratory voyage along the Alaska coast aboard the luxuriously refitted steamer, the George W. Elder.
The play is famous for introducing the cliched " thrill " device of having the villain tie someone to the railroad tracks — only in this case, it was the hero who was lashed to the tracks, and the heroine who ultimately saved him.
The west side of the district south of the railroad is on the National Register as the Lake Street Historic District due to its 1880 wrought iron store fronts, transom windows and probably, also, because of the famous family who founded " Wardville ".
The west side of the district south of the railroad is on the National Register due to its 1880 wrought iron store fronts, transom windows and probably, also, because of the famous family who founded " Wardville ".
Three highway and one railroad bridge cross the river in addition to the famous Roman Bridge, which is now closed to vehicle traffic.

famous and accident
* 1981 – Ecuadorian president Jaime Roldós Aguilera, his wife, and his presidential committee died in an aircraft accident while travelling from Quito to Zapotillo minutes after the president gave a famous speech regarding the 24 de mayo anniversary of the Battle of Pichincha.
According to the " Behind the Truth " segment on the Season 1 DVD, Snow created the echo effect on his famous theme music by accident.
In 1973, having been hospitalized after a car accident during a visit to Bulgaria ( now widely considered an attempt on his life on orders from Moscow: ), Berlinguer wrote three famous articles (" Reflections on Italy ", " After the facts of Chile " and " After the Coup Chile ") for the intellectual weekly magazine of the party, Rinascita.
" Montana ", for instance, is about the insane ramblings of somebody who is about to die ; " Idaho " explores a famous rock story in which John Lennon, having consumed hallucinogenic drugs, believed he could drive his house ; " South Carolina " is about getting rich as a result of a bicycle accident.
His most famous contribution, however, was an accident.
** Niki Lauda's famous accident occurred during the German Grand Prix at Nürburgring.
The Jubilees of 1450 and 1475 were attended by vast crowds of pilgrims, and that of 1450 was unfortunately made famous by a terrible accident in which nearly two hundred persons were trampled to death in a panic which occurred on the bridge of Sant ' Angelo.
His father Carl Mathias Rott ( real name Roth, born 1807, married 1862 ) was a famous comic actor in Vienna who was crippled in 1874 by a stage accident, and died two years later.
* Neil Moss — famous caving accident in Peak Cavern
Oldfield worked with Harry Arminius Miller, who developed and built carburetors in Los Angeles and became one of the most famous engine builders in America, to create a racing machine that would not only be fast and durable, but that would also protect the driver in the event of an accident.
Edison Peña, famous for keeping up his running routine during the 69 days he was trapped in the 2010 Copiapó mining accident, ran the race.
Again, fortunately for Chkalov, he had the honor of being “ the Soviet Union ’ s most famous pilot .” Chkalov ’ s life story ( as the government chose to represent it ) reflects the traits of Stalin ’ s New Soviet Man – apolitical, forever young ( he died in an accident at the age of thirty-four ), a master of nature, and as concerned with the greater good ( the integrity of his experimental aircraft ) as he was with his own life.
A fatal accident in 1977 involving a severely intoxicated Korean immigrant who attempted to urinate on the third rail at the Kedzie station eventually resulted in a famous Illinois Supreme Court decision in 1992 affirming a verdict of $ 1. 5 million against CTA.
Charles Nieuport, the second brother died in another accident in 1912 ( he stalled and spun in ), and the position of chief designer was taken over by the Swiss engineer Franz Schneider, more famous for his work for his next employer, L. V. G., and his long-running fight with Anthony Fokker over machine gun interrupter / synchronizer patents.
In 2003 the town became unfortunately famous throughout the country in the aftermath of an ecological accident caused by the spilling of chemical waste that affected the brook Cágado and the rivers Pomba and Paraíba do Sul, threatening the water supply of more than 20, 000, 000 Brazilians ( including the state of Rio de Janeiro ).
1827 – 3 July 1895 ) was an Irish immigrant living in Chicago, Illinois in the 1870s who became famous when it was alleged that an accident involving her cow had started the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
Her peak of popularity came when she was called to substitute for Kiko Ledgard, the famous presenter of Un, Dos, Tres ..., who had suffered a near-fatal accident.
A few of his ancestors became quite famous and / or powerful, but the majority of them were lucky enough to breed before killing themselves in some spectacular magical accident.
In December 2008, a snow blower accident made national headlines in the United States when Joe Sakic, the famous captain of the Colorado Avalanche hockey franchise of the National Hockey League, sustained three broken fingers and tendon damage when he attempted to clear the auger of his snowblower by hand.
Barilko ’ s goal became famous due to the Turofsky picture ( see below ) and the fact that Barilko would die in a small-plane accident the following summer.
Kolho has influenced some of the most famous Finnish artists ranging from Eero Järnefelt, Akseli Gallen-Kallela to Pentti Saarikoski and also was the site of the worst church boat accident in Finnish history.
Mary died in a 1921 horse-riding accident, leading White to write a famous eulogy " Mary White " on August 17, 1921.
During the pre-war years many famous aviators landed at Woodley, including Charles Lindbergh and Amy Johnson ; Douglas Bader lost his legs in an accident on the airfield.
Duke and Duchess of Croydon: In another instance the Duke and Duchess of Croydon are hiding out in the hotel from their responsibility for a gruesome hit-and-run accident which had been the highlight of the newspaper as the famous hit-and-run case.

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