Its difficulties were compounded by the next set of technological changes: the railroad that displaced the Erie Canal as the region's economic engine bypassed Lima completely.

Edison's family moved to Port Huron, Michigan after the railroad bypassed Milan in 1854 and business declined ; his life there was bittersweet.

In 1854, the new railroad from Fernandina to Cedar Key bypassed Newnansville, and Gainesville, a new town that was located on the railroad, began to draw business and residents away from Newnansville.

When the railroad bypassed the Contharp Community, many of the residents relocated to work at a nearby sawmill.

This railroad bypassed Jacksonville and instead went through Medford, located five miles ( 8 km ) east of Jacksonville.

The old county seat of Spring Place was bypassed by the railroad.

When the railroad bypassed Hardyville, it quickly became a ghost town until the construction of the Davis Dam.

Alachua was established in 1884 on a railroad line, after the railroad had bypassed nearby Newnansville.

A fire burnt the town in 1904 and shortly thereafter the Camas Prairie Railroad bypassed the town and started a settlement of its own, a mile east and called " Vollmer ", on the northeast side of the railroad tracks.

However, Auburn was cast aside as an option, as the railroad bypassed the city.

It declined rapidly after river traffic was cut off and it was bypassed by the railroad.

When the former seaport was bypassed during construction of railroad lines in the 19th century, its decline continued.

However, railroad lines bypassed the village and it did not prosper, eventually disincorporating.

The railroad bypassed Dixboro, and Ann Arbor soon quickly outpaced Dixboro.

When the Chicago St Paul Minneapolis and Omaha Railroad laid tracks in 1899 and bypassed the town, the townspeople moved themselves and their city to a favorable spot on the railroad line.

When the railroad was completed around 1882, it bypassed Lakeville.

However, the residents of the southern portion of the county voted overwhelmingly against the bond issue in an 1871 election: they were displeased at having been bypassed by an earlier railroad line, anticipated no benefits from the new line, and were angry with Seward, which had won the county seat away from the southern town of Milford.

The railroad, developed in the 1840s, bypassed the town of Somers, and affected a decline in growth over the next hundred years.

Long the major town in central Oregon, Prineville was snubbed in 1911 when the railroad tycoons James J. Hill and Edward H. Harriman bypassed the city as they laid track south from The Dalles.

The city was the principal financial center of southern Oregon until it was bypassed by the railroad.

Being bypassed by the major railroad route permanently affected Brownsville's economy and made it subsidiary to Pittsburgh.

Since that time the telegraph office has shifted in location from the railroad station at the Depot and shops at the Center back to the town clerk's office and drugstore at the Village.

He gathers the town, along with the railroad workers, three miles east of Rock Ridge to build a fake town as a diversion.

" Jim Rob ", as he became known, drifted for several years, traveling from town to town to try to earn a living, at one point almost losing his life when he nearly fell from a moving train, and later being chased by railroad police.

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.

In 1871, the Intercolonial Railway of Canada chose Moncton to be its headquarters, and Moncton remained a railroad town for well over a century until the closure of the Canadian National Railway ( CNR ) locomotive shops in the late 1980s.

The growth continued when a railroad was built through town in 1893.

* Sulphur, Nevada, a ghost town and railroad siding at the Kamma Mountains in the Black Rock Desert

Biko is buried in King William Town, Eastern Cape Province in the town cemetery near the railroad tracks.

The first railroad came to the town in 1862.

Born as a result of the railroad being built here instead of at Middleton to the west in 1860, Winona was originally a part of Carroll County and was incorporated as a town on May 2, 1861.

An influx of settlers started after the location of the railroad and Winona became a busy town.

* The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates the railroad town of Goldsborough, and the Wayne county seat is moved to the new town.

The main character in The Claim ( 2000 ) is a surveyor for the Central Pacific Railroad, and the film is partially about the effort of a frontier mayor to have the railroad routed through his town.

They established farms and orchards supported by small-scale irrigation projects and railroad transportation, with small town centers at Hanford, White Bluffs, and Richland.

In 1890, the railroad reached town, which brought in more mines and brought out more ore.

The town was renamed Tigard in 1907 by the railroad to greater distinguish it from the nearby Wilsonville, and the focus of the town reoriented northeast towards the new rail stop as growth accelerated.

Harlingen has a rich history as a railroad town.

However, when the railroad was built through town the new station was called Gaithersburg, an officially recognized name for the community for the first time.

** Rockport ( MBTA station ), a railroad station in the town

But by comparison with the railroad, the motor car is a relatively new object of popular worship, so it is too much to hope that it may be brought within the bounds of civilized usage quickly and easily.

Ludie hopped rides on freight cars, and was chased by Mr. Yankton, the railroad guard.

Instead we have stood idly by, watched our commuter railroad service decline, and have failed to offer a helping hand.

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.

Since this book is concerned only incidentally with railroad rates, it will not attempt to analyze the methods by which the staff of the Interstate Commerce Commission has estimated out-of-pocket costs and apportioned residue costs.

The railroad siding is still important -- it is usually, though not always, true that long-haul shipment by rail is cheaper than trucking.

Often, threading through the overcast, he was forced to fly close to the ground by a low ceiling, skimming above the Winooski or the White River along the line of the broken railroad.

-- President Kennedy today proposed a mammoth new medical care program whereby social security taxes on 70 million American workers would be raised to pay the hospital and some other medical bills of 14.2 million Americans over 65 who are covered by social security or railroad retirement programs.

Since the railroad cannot reduce the salary of individual union members under contract, it must accomplish its payroll reduction by placing some of the men on furlough, a B. & O. spokesman said.

Lincoln successfully argued that the railroad company was not bound by its original charter in existence at the time of Barret's pledge ; the charter was amended in the public interest to provide a newer, superior, and less expensive route, and the corporation retained the right to demand Barret's payment.

With Beauregard's help, Johnston decided to concentrate forces with those formerly under Polk and now already under Beauregard's command at the strategically located railroad crossroads of Corinth, Mississippi, which he reached by a circuitous route.

Carnegie started as a telegrapher and by the 1860s had investments in railroads, railroad sleeping cars, bridges and oil derricks.

Many of these were part of the corruption indulged in by Scott and the Pennsylvania's president, J. Edgar Thomson, which consisted of inside trading in companies that the railroad did business with, or payoffs made by contracting parties " as part of a quid pro quo ", as biographer David Nasaw writes.

King was a major shareholder in the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad ( later the Long Island Rail Road ) and therefore had a conflict of interest and stood to benefit by the compensation payments to the railroad from the tax assessment.

Its arch, which was constructed from over of stone blocks in just 18 days, is the second largest stone arch in the world, surpassed only by the Friedensbrücke ( Syratalviadukt ) in Plauen, and the largest railroad stone arch.

In the American Old West of 1874, construction on a new railroad led by Lyle ( Burton Gilliam ) runs into quicksand.

The conniving State Attorney General Hedley Lamarr ( Harvey Korman ) wants to buy the land along the new railroad route cheaply by driving out the townspeople.

Construction was stopped on a 7-block extension to the line due to the removal and scrapping of rails, ties, and other items of railroad equipment by the DOT, which were stored on land that was slated for the " Fairway " supermarket project.

* The curve at a fixed offset from a given Bézier curve, often called an offset curve ( lying " parallel " to the original curve, like the offset between rails in a railroad track ), cannot be exactly formed by a Bézier curve ( except in some trivial cases ).

The coming of the railroad to North Cambridge and Northwest Cambridge then led to three major changes in the city: the development of massive brickyards and brickworks between Massachusetts Ave., Concord Ave. and Alewife Brook ; the ice-cutting industry launched by Frederic Tudor on Fresh Pond ; and the carving up of the last estates into residential subdivisions to provide housing to the thousands of immigrants that arrived to work in the new industries.

* Peabody ( Area 9 ) is bordered on the north by railroad tracks, on the south by Concord Avenue, on the west by railroad tracks, and on the east by Massachusetts Avenue.