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.

In 2008, a former goods shed by the main railway station of Abensberg was converted into a theatre by local volunteers.

Through those efforts, in mid-2012, the Swedish Artemis Racing team announced that they would create their team base in one of the former air station hangars on Alameda Point.

From Elmers End to Woodside route 1 and route 4 ( and route 2 from Arena ) follow the former British Rail branch line to Addiscombe, then diverge to reach Addiscombe tram stop, which is 500 metres west of the now-demolished Addiscombe railway station.

The London Docklands Development Corporation ( LDDC ), needing to provide public transport cheaply for the former docks area to stimulate regeneration, considered several proposals and chose a light rail scheme using dock railway infrastructure to link the West India Docks to Tower Hill and to run alongside the Great Eastern line out of London to a northern terminus at, where a disused bay platform at the west of the station was available, for interchange with the Central Line and main lines.

The statue of Hercules, placed at the station commemorating the fall of Louis XVI, symbolized the power of the French people over their former oppressors.

Monzie Square ( named after the Cameron Campbells of Monzie, Perthshire, former landowners in the town ), Station Square, where the long-since demolished railway station used to be, Gordon Square ( named for the Gordons, who owned land where the town now stands in the late 18th century, during which time the town was named Gordonsburgh ), and Cameron Square — formerly known as Town Hall Square.

The main strongholds of the Red defence were the Workers Hall, the Railway station, the Red Headquarters of " Smolna " ( the former palace of the Russian governor-general, in southern Esplanade ), the Senate-University area, and the former Russian garrisons in Helsinki.

Near Uhlandstraße U-Bahn station is the Kempinski hotel as well as the Theater am Kurfürstendamm at the site of a former exhibition hall of the Berlin Secession art association.

The Rooseum Centre for Contemporary Art, founded in 1988 by the Swedish art collector and financier Fredrik Roos and housed in a former power station which had been built in 1900, was one of the foremost centres for contemporary art in Europe during the 1980s and 1990s.

Hazmi got a recommendation from the mosque for a job at a nearby Texaco station and car wash, a business whose former owner, a Muslim, was known to help young men in need of work.

Some train operating companies continue to use the former British Rail Rail Alphabet lettering to varying degrees in station signage, although its use is no longer universal ; however it remains compulsory ( under Railway Group Standards ) for safety signage in trackside areas and is still common ( although not universal ) on rolling stock.

In early May 2007, bassist Peter Hook was interviewed by British radio station XFM – originally to talk about his contribution to the debut album of former Jane's Addiction singer Perry Farrell's new band Satellite Party saying that "[...] me and Bernard aren't working together.

The Peenemünde Historical and Technical Information Centre opened in 1992 in the shelter control room and the area of the former power station and is an anchor point of ERIH, the European Route of Industrial Heritage.

In the station they meet Halrloprillalar Hotrufan (" Prill "), a former crew member of a spaceship used for trade between the Ringworld and other inhabited worlds.

The former Imperial Waiting Room at the main train station in Nizhny Novgorod

Inside the last tunnel, about 500 m long, closest to the former San Marino station, some of the train coaches once used are still being preserved.

The FEBA Seychelles station was decommissioned at the end of March 2003, and short wave broadcasts were transferred to other stations, many in the former Soviet Union.

The former railway from the Powerhouse Museum to Lilyfield, including Pyrmont and Glebe tunnels, has been converted to form part of the Metro Light Rail line from Central station.

In 1961, a volcanic eruption forced the evacuation of the entire population via Cape Town to wooden huts in the disused Pendell Army Camp in Merstham, Surrey, England, before moving to a more permanent site at a former Royal Air Force station in Calshot near Southampton, England, living mainly in a road called Tristan Close.

It was situated in the former Royal Air Force station of Long Kesh, on the outskirts of Lisburn.

The new laboratory was sited at a former Naval Air Base and training station in Livermore, California.

The former United States Coast Guard station at the Seashore is now operated as a 42 bed youth hostel by Hostelling International USA.

* CBE, the former callsign of the CBC Radio One AM station in Windsor, Ontario.

* Dalton Barracks, current name of former Royal Air Force station near Abingdon, Oxfordshire