The first, or double-step, type might also be called the `` railroad type '' because of its application to railroads ( and other transportation agencies ) by the Cost Section of the Interstate Commerce Commission.

In the first subtype, the analyst ( following the practice of railroad analysis in this particular respect ) distributes both total operating costs and total annual capital costs ( including an allowance for `` cost of capital '' or `` fair rate of return '' ) among the different classes and units of service.

Insofar as it carried railroad trains under a city street, some have claimed it be the world's first subway tunnel, though, unlike a modern rapid transit subway, it had no stations.

* 1873 – American Indian Wars: while protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Sioux near the Tongue River ; only one man on each side is killed.

He established the first Ottoman railroad network and Sirkeci Train Station in Istanbul, terminus of the Orient Express.

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.

* Carl Abraham Pihl, engineer and director of first Norwegian railroad ( Hovedbanen ).

Mexican factory workers and railroad crews first arrived in the Chicagoland area ( Chicago, Illinois ), used the term among themselves, probably to mean chicanery or the working man.

The first railroad in Indiana reached Columbus from Madison, Indiana in 1844.

Rock Island Railroad built the first railroad bridge across the Mississippi River in 1856.

* 1815 – New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to John Stevens.

* 1827 – The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.

Many of the first American railroad builders came to Newcastle to learn from Stephenson, and indeed, the first dozen or so locomotives utilized in the U. S. were purchased from the Stephenson shops.

The Granite Railway, America's first railroad, was built to haul granite from the quarries in Quincy, Massachusetts, to the Neponset River in the 1820s.

Liberal concessions allowed U. S. based concerns to enter the Honduran market, first as shipping companies, and then as railroad and banana producing enterprises.

By the 1890s, industrialisation in these areas had created the first giant industrial corporations with burgeoning global interests, as companies like U. S. Steel, General Electric, Standard Oil and Bayer AG joined the railroad companies on the world's stock markets.

They were first hidden at Senator David Levy Yulee's plantation in Florida, then placed in the care of a railroad agent in Waldo.

* Theodore Judah, American engineer who dreamed of the first transcontinental railroad

In 1845 Douglas, serving in his first term in the United States House of Representatives, had submitted an unsuccessful plan to formally organize the Nebraska Territory as the first step in building a railroad with its eastern terminus in Chicago.

It received its first contract from the Prussian State railroad, and manufactured its first locomotive.

Krupp was the first company to patent a seamless, reliable and strong enough railroad tire for rail freight.

* 1957 – The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U. S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety.

All these emotions were screwed up to new heights when, after acceptance and the first rehearsals, there ensued such a buzz of excitement among Parisian music lovers that Duclos had to come running to Rousseau to inform him that the news had reached the superintendent of the King's amusements, and that he was now demanding that the work be offered first at the royal summer palace of Fontainebleau.

When Napoleon's ship had borne him to Elba, French wines had started to cross the Channel, the first shipments in a dozen war-ridden years, but the supplies had not yet reached rural hostelries where the sweet wines of the Spanish peninsula still ruled.

And yet, despite some disappointment with the performance of this first year of the new decade, 1960 has been a good year in many ways, with many overall measures of business having reached new peaks for the year as a whole.

To each paired vertex and diagonal point there corresponds a unique forward corner point, i.e., the corner on C reached first by proceeding along C from the vertex in the direction of increasing T.

Just as they reached the shore, the first huge wave crashed upon them.

And then, as they become aware that they have reached the end of their patience, what do they, to their dismay, learn for the first time about themselves??

* In 1999, after rowing for 81 days and 4, 767 kilometres ( 2, 962 mi ), Tori Murden became the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by rowboat alone when she reached Guadeloupe from the Canary Islands.

Bilateral trade with Russia stood at more than $ 700 million for the first nine months of 2010 – on track to rebound to $ 1 billion mark first reached in 2008 prior to the global economic crisis.

The first meaning, " elm tree ", is problematic, and is reached by deriving * Elm-la from * Almilōn and subsequently to almr (" elm ").

Cuba and Puerto Rico, reached tremendous levels of development and wealth, to the point that Spain's First Train was between Havana and Camaguey, and the world's first telegraph was in Puerto Rico, as Samuel Morse lived there with his daughter, married to a Puerto Rican businessman.

However, due to the shortage of time, whoever – the prime minister, the defense minister or the home minister – can be reached first will take the call.

His few remaining masses ( the story of his having composed two hundred is hardly credible ) and church music in general are comparatively unimportant, except the great St Cecilia Mass ( 1721 ), which is one of the first attempts at the style which reached its height in the great masses of Johann Sebastian Bach and Beethoven.

The party had a good showing in the first general election to which it took part ( 13. 5 % in 1994 ) and reached 15. 7 % in 1996, when Fini tried for the first time to replace Silvio Berlusconi as leader of the centre-right.

* A batter reaches base on a fielder's choice which removes a baserunner who has reached base safely on an error or has remained on base as the result of an error, reaching first base on a passed ball on a called or swinging third strike, or remained on base on an error on a fielders ' choice play that should have retired him, and subsequently scores.

For example if a runner on first base reached third base on a single, it would count as a steal.

In 1887, the stolen base was given its own individual statistical column in the box score, and was defined for purposes of scoring: "... every base made after first base has been reached by a base runner, except for those made by reason of or with the aid of a battery error ( wild pitch or passed ball ), or by batting, balks or by being forced off.

In July, the Great Fear of aristocratic reprisal against the ongoing French Revolution struck France, arriving in the Barcelonnette area on 31 July 1789 ( when the news of the storming of the Bastille first reached the town ) before spreading towards Digne.

While in Rome for Otto's imperial coronation, Bruno met Saint Adalbert of Prague, the first Apostle of the Prussians, killed a year later, which inspired Bruno to write a biography of St Adalbert when he reached the recently Christianized and consolidated Kingdom of Hungary himself.

He directed dozens of silent films, including Paramount Pictures ' first production, The Squaw Man ( 1914 ), which was co-directed by Oscar Apfel, before coming into huge popularity during the late 1910s and early 1920s, when he reached the apex of his popularity with such films as Don't Change Your Husband ( 1919 ), The Ten Commandments ( 1923 ), and The King of Kings ( 1927 ).

The first album to be released on CD was Billy Joel's 52nd Street, that reached the market alongside Sony's CD player CDP-101 on October 1, 1982 in Japan.

The Browns came into 1954 as one of the most powerful teams in the NFL, having reached the championship in each of their first four years in the league.

It wasn't until after Fulham first reached the top division, in 1949, that further improvements were made to the stadium.