The Central Pacific Railroad ( CPRR ) is the former name of the railroad network built between California and Utah, USA that formed part of the " First Transcontinental Railroad " in North America.

The railroad town of Allenton is a former community on U. S. Highway 66 located ( now ) at the junction of Interstate 44 and Business Loop 44 in western St. Louis County.

Much of the railroad infrastructure is still in a poor state, all of the rolling stock being inherited from the former Soviet Union.

* The Rock or Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, former Class I railroad in the United States

Stanford was founded by Leland Stanford, a railroad magnate, United States Senator, and former California governor, and his wife, Jane Stanford.

" Conductors " on the railroad came from various backgrounds and included free-born blacks, white abolitionists, former slaves ( either escaped or manumitted ), and Native Americans.

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.

With the end of the Civil War and increased government supervision in the offing, Durant hired his former M & M engineer Grenville M. Dodge to build the railroad and the Union Pacific began a mad dash.

* Spike — A punk vampire who has killed two previous Slayers, Spike took his nickname from one of his former killings which involved a railroad spike.

In the mid-twentieth century, the NYS Thruway was constructed parallel to the former east-west routes of the canal and railroad.

Two of these railroad lines are now operated by CSX Transportation ; the former WM main line is now operated by Maryland Midland Railway.

Bermuda has of private paved roads ; of public paved roads ; of historic, mostly unpaved railroad trail, used in parts as a scenic trail ; two marine ports ( Hamilton and St. George's ), and one airport, the L. F. Wade International Airport, located at the former U. S. Naval Air Station.

They are ambushed by Pike's former partner, Deke Thornton ( Robert Ryan ), and a posse of bounty hunters hired and deputized by the railroad.

This section of Route 35 follows the right-of-way of the former Pennsylvania Railroad Between Seaside Heights and Mantoloking, with the southbound side following the former railroad right-of-way north of Ortley Beach.

The town is centered around the former railroad depot on Teays Lane.

He was recruited by former Confederate General Williams Carter Wickham to become a major investor and guiding light for a southern railroad.

A county historical museum is located in a former railroad depot at 303 S. First Street in Crockett.

George Bissell, a Yale University Chemistry professor, and Edwin L. Drake, a former railroad conductor, made the first successful use of a drilling rig on August 28, 1859 near Titusville, Pennsylvania.

* Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, a former American railroad, operating from 1869 to 1972 in the state of Virginia

Georgian Court University in Lakewood is a private Roman Catholic Sisters of Mercy college, which opened in 1908 on the former winter estate of millionaire George Jay Gould I, son of railroad tycoon Jay Gould.

A Kawasaki railroad cars assembly plant opened in 1986 in the former Otis plant, producing the new R142A, R143 and R160B cars for the New York City Subway, and the PA4 and upcoming PA5 series for PATH.

Polish soldiers advanced east along the former Prussian Eastern Railway to railroad crossroads 7 kilometres from the town of Chojnice ( Konitz ) where elements of the Polish cavalry attacked and dispersed the German infantry battalion.

First referred to as " Choctaw ", the town was named after railroad financier and former Union Civil War general, Samuel Thomas, after he donated $ 500 for the construction of Thomasville's first school.

During the next two years, school was held in local church buildings, the town's former bank building, and the U. S. Post Office building located near the railroad.

The Upper Lars border crossing ( at Darial Gorge ) between Georgia and Russia across the Caucasus Mountains served as Armenia's sole overland route to the former Soviet Union and Europe.

This crossing replaces the former crossing Hüningerstrasse further east.

The former river forms a gorge running through the middle of the city south of the old city centre, generally following the course of the present Rue Centrale, with several bridges crossing the depression to connect the adjacent neighbourhoods.

On 7 May, the Nationalist opposition ( hitherto led by John Latham ), the six Labor dissidents ( who had formed the All for Australia League ), and former Prime Minister Billy Hughes ' Australian Party ( a group of former Nationalists who had been expelled for crossing the floor and bringing down Stanley Bruce's Nationalist government in 1929 ), merged to form the UAP.

Two chorus lines, one of four chorus girls and one of four chorus boys then took turns crossing the stage, the former group entering from stage right and the latter from stage left.

There Theodelinda's centrally-planned Greek-cross oraculum (" chapel of prayer ") from c. 595 ( its foundations remaining under the crossing of nave and transept ) was enlarged at the close of the 13th century by enclosing the former atrium within the building.

The former county seat of Tascosa is located at a crossing of the Canadian River north of Vega.

To the north of St Guthlac's Cross, it meets Spalding Road ( former A1073 ) and borders Cowbit, and follows the north side of Queen's Bank, crossing the A16.

The former Mayor, Kenneth Zichi, led a group on a brief walking tour of town, pointing out sites of historic interest, and including a ' bridge crossing ' of the Red Cedar River.

A New “ Town & Country ” crossing shopping center has opened at the corner of Clayton & Woods mill Road ( former site of a large Western Electric facility.

In the following summer, after crossing from Ireland to London when in poor health to bring forward the Irish question once more, he became seriously ill. On his death-bed he spoke generously of Castlereagh, and with warm eulogy of his former rival, Flood.

A tiger crossing is a variation used in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong, a former British colony.

In the United Kingdom ( and in many current or former Commonwealth countries as well ), it is illegal for drivers to park upon the ' zig zag ' lines either side of a pedestrian crossing.

County Route 561C, a former segment of County Route 561, splits from Route 73 by heading north through the community of Cedar Brook while Route 73 and CR 561 bypass the community to the east, crossing under a Conrail Shared Assets Operations railroad line.

In 1948 Arthur Smith achieved Top 10 US country chart success with his MGM Records recordings of " Guitar Boogie " and " Banjo Boogie ", with the former crossing over to the US pop chart, introducing many people to the potential of the electric guitar.

The band issued the self-titled Eve 6 in 1998, attaining platinum success with hit singles “ Inside Out ” and “ Leech ,” the former capturing the # 1 spot on the Modern Rock charts and crossing over successfully to Top 40 radio.

In 1933, after various efforts spanning centuries, the river now called Fiumicino, crossing the town of Savignano di Romagna ( now Savignano sul Rubicone ), was officially identified as the former Rubicon.

Abandoned in the 17th century it was quarried away until all that survived by the 1860s were the foundations, some low walls and the battered crossing piers of the former central tower.

Proposed developments include the development of a large new residential quarter at Carcur, a new river crossing at that point, the new town library, the refurbishment of Selskar Abbey and the controversial redevelopment of the former site of Wexford Electronix.

As Route 26 left the path of the Trenton and New Brunswick Turnpike to cross the railroad, State Highway Route 26A was designated in 1941 legislature to continue on the former turnpike to a former railroad crossing in North Brunswick Township.

Miss Harridan now takes a job as a crossing guard, and her former assistant, Jenny, joins Daddy Day Care at the new facility.