The statement was also made that undoubtedly the railroad had received some compensating benefit from the telegraphers, but that it was difficult to imagine what could balance a job for life.

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.

Furthermore, Carnegie ’ s success was due to his convenient relationship with the railroad industries, which not only relied on steel for track, but were also making money from steel transport.

Afyon is also an important railroad junction between İzmir, Konya, Ankara and Istanbul.

The Austro-Hungarian investigation of the assassination rounded up all but one of the assassins and also much of the underground railroad that had been used to transport the assassins and their weapons from Serbia to Sarajevo.

Most of the underground railroad that transported them were also arrested, tried, and convicted.

Greece had also allowed the Bulgarians to control the stretch of the Thessaloniki-Constantinople railroad that lay in Greek-occupied territory, since Bulgaria controlled the largest part of this railroad towards Thrace.

Twelve is known as " boxcars " because the spots on the two dice that show 6-6 look like schematic drawings of railroad boxcars ; it is also called " midnight ", referring to twelve o ' clock.

The square dome-like segment of a North American railroad train caboose is also called a cupola.

The construction of the railroad also secured for the government the economical " safe and speedy transportation of the mails, troops, munitions of war, and public stores.

These advantages also make the Diesel engine ideal for use in the heavy-haul railroad environment.

The UFC responded by pouring investment capital into the country, buying controlling shares of the railroad, electric utility, and telegraph, while also winning control of over 40 % of the country's best land and de facto control over its only port facility.

A further locomotive was supplied to Scott's Pit railroad at Llansamlet, near Swansea in 1819 but it too was soon withdrawn, apparently because it was under-boilered and also because of damage to the track.

Germans controlled about 80 % of the country's international commerce ; they also owned and operated utilities in Cap Haïtien and Port-au-Prince, the main wharf and a tramway in the capital, and a railroad serving the Plaine de Cul-du-Sac.

The Grand River goes through the outskirts of the park, the Penn Central Transportation Company railroad track also goes through the park.

Road maps are perhaps the most widely used maps today, and form a subset of navigational maps, which also include aeronautical and nautical charts, railroad network maps, and hiking and bicycling maps.

They also hoped, after peace was made with Mexico, to run a railroad to the Gulf of California to give " access to the East Indian, Peruvian and Chilean trade.

Rockwell also acquired the privately held Allen-Bradley Company for $ 1. 6 billion in February 1985 — $ 1 billion of which was cash to the owners of Allen Bradley — and became a producer of railroad electronics.

Morse also at one time adopted Wheatstone and Carl August von Steinheil's idea of broadcasting an electrical telegraph signal through a body of water or down steel railroad tracks or anything conductive.

Though the railroad was still more useful for transportation of freight, passenger traffic was also growing.

In the summer of 1860, a local miner, Daniel Strong, had surveyed a route over the Sierras for a wagon toll road, a route he realized would also suit a railroad.

In addition to track laying ( which typically employed approximately 25 % of the labor force ), the operation also required the efforts of hundreds of tunnelers, explosive experts, bridge builders, blacksmiths, carpenters, engineers, masons, surveyors, teamsters, telegraphers, and even cooks, to name just a few of the trades involved in construction of the railroad.

Fusees are also known as railroad flares and are used to perform hand signals in rail transport applications.

Consideration was also given to building atop railroad tracks on the West Side of Manhattan ( an idea revived in 1998 ) and to Long Island City, in Queens.

CSX owns both railroad lines which cross Dillon.

Boston & Maine owns the property ( and also employs its own railroad police ), while Springfield Terminal Railway, a B & M subsidiary, operates the trains and performs maintenance.

Berkshire now owns a diverse range of businesses including confectionery, retail, railroad, home furnishings, encyclopedias, manufacturers of vacuum cleaners, jewelry sales ; newspaper publishing ; manufacture and distribution of uniforms ; as well as several regional electric and gas utilities.

The headquarters of the Monzales company which owns the railroad are located in Vokhtoga.

The appointment, commissioning and regulation of railroad police under Section 1704 of the U. S. Crime Control Act of 1990, provides that: " A railroad police officer who is certified or commissioned as a police officer under the laws of any one state shall, in accordance with the regulations issued by the U. S. Secretary of Transportation, be authorized to enforce the laws of any other state in which the rail carrier owns property.

Railroad special agents are commissioned by the governor or other agency of the state they are employed in, are armed, and carry state arrest powers in all states in which their employing railroad owns property, if authorized by the state.

Fortress previously owned conglomerate short line railroad operator RailAmerica, which for a time operated FEC but the two companies never merged ; Fortress no longer owns RailAmerica and RailAmerica no longer operates FEC.

In 1988 the Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad became part of Transtar, Inc., a privately held transportation holding company with principal operations in railroad freight transportation, dock operations, Great Lakes shipping, and inland river barging that were formerly subsidiaries of USX, the holding company that owns U. S. Steel.

The museum owns the Snoqualmie Depot built in 1890, of railroad right-of-way, and of the former Northern Pacific Railway North Bend branch.

* The United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company, which owns the assets of the first railroad built in New Jersey ( the Camden and Amboy Railroad ), is merged into the Pennsylvania Railroad

Iowa Pacific Holdings ( IPH ), a holding company that owns railroad properties across North America and the United Kingdom ( including San Luis & Rio Grande in southern Colorado ), made a bid to revive the Ski Train using an improved business model that utilized idle equipment from SL & RG's subsidiary, Rio Grande Scenic Railroad.

Privately, he explains that Bart owns a railroad, the Saratoga Trunk, which is suddenly worth millions of dollars because it connects the coal country with New York.

The Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority owns two segments of shortline railroad that are operated by a private contractor d / b / a the New York and Ogdensburg Railway.

The railroad that owns the track permits trains from another railroad to use the line.

A haulage agreement is similar to one of trackage rights, but the railroad that owns the line operates the power for the cars of the latter company.

The railroad owns several locomotives in various states of repair.

The Bloomer Line is owned by Alliance Grain Company, which owns the eight grain elevators served by the railroad.

The railroad owns numerous locomotives and dozens of cars.

This has led to a curious historical oddity, as the CSX, successor railroad to the B & O, owns a bridge that it cannot abandon, because the bridge is needed to continue operating a second bridge it does not own.

As of 2005, every Class I railroad with the exceptions of Norfolk Southern and Canadian National owns at least one AC4400CW.

The base owns 130 pieces of railroad rolling stock and 230 trucks and trailers to move the ammunition which is loaded onto ships using six mobile cranes that can lift up to 90 tons ( 81 tonnes ).

In 2008, the railroad was purchased by Genesee & Wyoming, a US-based corporation which owns multiple railroad shortlines in the United States and Australia.