Although the resort was initially dependent upon railroad and electric trolley service, the completion of Virginia Beach Boulevard in 1922, which extended from Norfolk to the oceanfront, opened the way for automobiles, buses, trucks, and passenger rail service, the latter of which was eventually discontinued.

The railroad discontinued service that year.

The railroad discontinued passenger service in the 1960s and its tracks started being removed in the year 2000 with the last of the track removed in 2005.

Although the tracks are still in place, railroad service has been discontinued.

Arguably Tamaqua's most famous landmark, it stood idle from the mid 80s through the late 90s after passenger railroad service to the town was discontinued.

In 1944 the railroad line was discontinued beyond Guy to the north.

The railroad eventually discontinued using Roy as a main stop.

A railroad line runs through Philippi, now used only by freight trains, passenger rail service having been discontinued in 1956.

It was originally a major passenger railroad stop, but in the latter half of the 20th century, all passenger traffic ( except for the occasional joyride ) has been discontinued and has been replaced entirely by freight.

* FHI discontinued the production of buses and railroad cars in 2003.

The former Erie railroad commuter service, ultimately inherited by Conrail, was discontinued on Jan. 14, 1977, ending the facility's use as a train station.

The highway eliminated railway passenger travel over the route from Portland by 1958 and railroad freight service through Crawford Notch was discontinued in 1983.

All service north of the state line was discontinued, but service in Massachusetts was preserved through a contract between the Commonwealth and the B & M, at this time still an independent railroad company.

A long-running feature of Mechanix Illustrated was " Mimi ," a shapely young woman dressed in skimpy overalls with blue and white vertical stripes ; and, in the early sixties, a matching railroad engineer's cap ( later discontinued ).

During that decade, the railroad discontinued its electrified passenger service in 1941, but temporarily resumed passenger service during the Second World War using gas-electric motor cars and cars pulled by diesel-electric locomotives.

Our comment was that this was `` featherbedding '' in its ultimate form and that sympathy for the railroad was misplaced since it had entered into such an agreement.

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 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.

The railroad president made the statement in an interview as the Interstate Commerce Commission opened Round 2 of its hearing into the C & O's request to control and then merge with the B & Aj.

In 1851, he represented Alton & Sangamon Railroad in a dispute with one of its shareholders, James A. Barret, who had refused to pay the balance on his pledge to buy shares in the railroad on the grounds that the company had changed its original train route.

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.

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.

In 1878, Ephraim Shay perfected his Shay locomotive, which was particularly effective in its ability to climb steep grades, maneuver sharp turns and manage imperfections in railroad tracks.

" Freedom of contract is a qualified and not an absolute right ...," Hughes declared in upholding an Iowa law that voided contracts limiting the legal rights of railroad workers: The state may " interfere where the parties do not stand upon an equality ...." Using similar reasoning, the associate justice upheld a California law that mandated a forty-eight-hour work-week for women in various industries and allowed a federal statute to override a contract between an interstate railroad and its employees.

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.

" Much of the TMRC's jargon was later imported into early computing culture, because the club started using a DEC PDP-1 and applied its local model railroad slang in this computing context.

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.

He focused on arms manufacturing, as the US railroad market purchased from its own growing steel industry.

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

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.

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

* 1980 – The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad operates its final train after being ordered to liquidate its assets because of bankruptcy and debts owed to creditors.

Nashville quickly grew because of its strategic location, accessibility as a river port, and its later status as a major railroad center.

During the 1870s and 1890s, Puerto Rico did not have a national railroad system, but the city of Mayagüez did have a small passenger rail system for transporting its residents mainly along the Mendez Vigo Avenue.

Throughout his later career, he made use of his close connection to Thomson and Scott as he established businesses that supplied rails and bridges to the railroad, offering the two men a stake in his enterprises.

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

The idea was that it was easier to teach railroad experts to use MAPPER than to teach programmers the " intricacies of railroad operations ".

" After some initial trials with paper tape, he settled on punched cards ..." Hollerith came to use punched cards after observing how railroad conductors encoded personal characteristics of each passenger with punches on their tickets.

By the end of the 20th century, almost the only steam power still in regular use in North America and Western European countries was on heritage railways largely aimed at tourists and / or railroad hobbyists, known as ' railfans ' or ' railway enthusiasts ', although some narrow gauge lines in Germany which form part of the public transport system, running to all-year-round timetables retain steam for all or part of their motive power.

Union Pacific Railroad operated the largest fleet of gas turbine-electric locomotives in the world, and was the only railroad to use them for hauling freight in regular service.

The strength and resilience of metals has led to their frequent use in high-rise building and bridge construction, as well as most vehicles, many appliances, tools, pipes, non-illuminated signs and railroad tracks.

Such a description usually makes use of natural or manmade boundaries such as seacoasts, rivers, streams, the crests of ridges, lakeshores, highways, roads, and railroad tracks, and / or purpose-built artificial markers such as cairns, surveyor's posts, fences, official government surveying marks ( such as ones affixed by the U. S. Geodetic Survey ( USGS )), and so forth.

Firstly, they often use a railroad track design, to allow the toe and heel pieces to slide, which in turn allows the ski to flex deeply, without a non-flexing spot underfoot due to the binding.

It was known as a " railroad " by way of the use of rail terminology in the code.

* Track warrant, railroad line permission for a train's use of the main line

Fusees made specifically for railroad use can be distinguished from highway fusees by a sharp steel spike at one end, used to embed the fusee upright in a wooden railroad tie.

The Brownsville & Matamoros International Bridge is a large swing bridge that dates back to 1910 and is still in use today by automobiles and railroad trains, connecting Brownsville, Texas with Matamoros, Tamaulipas.

** Crane ( railroad ), a crane suited to use on railroads

He attributed its first use to an 1880 anti-monopoly pamphlet in which Kansas farmers applied the term to railroad magnates.

The first use of barcodes was to label railroad cars, but they were not commercially successful until they were used to automate supermarket checkout systems, a task for which they have become almost universal.

Some diesel / electric railroad locomotives use the electric motors to generate electricity which is then sent to a resistor bank and dumped as heat.

In substance, the railroad regulatory reform legislation, in the 1970-1980 period, turned toward greater use of market systems to deal with the problems of the rail industry in the United States, rather than resorting to nationalization, which had been considered from time to time.

This gave the railroad the route structure it was to use for more than 60 years.

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.

* Rocket launchers — The European Space Agency, Russian Federal Space Agency, NASA and SpaceX use double-track railroad to move rockets and supporting equipment at launch sites.

Chivington was intended as a major watering stop for the railroad ( a 60-room, $ 10, 000 " crown jewel " hotel was initially built there ), but the water was too alkaline to use and the trains instead stopped in Kansas to tank up.

The railroad was planning to use the graduates as a source of students for Talladega College who might then go on to work for the railroad.