On ships at sea, on railroad trains, in summer hotels with mountain views, they always said, `` I've never done this before ''.

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.

Theodore Roosevelt, then a member of the Assembly, said that he had initially voted for the bill believing it was wrong, but wishing to punish the unscrupulous railroad barons.

So he is said to have taken a ruler and put one end at Moscow, the other at Saint Petersburg, and then drawn a straight line – but his finger was slightly sticking out, and this left the railroad with a small curve.

For any railroad that resisted, the ICC's conditions would remain in effect until the outcome of legislation said otherwise.

" In February 1927 the Choctawhatchee and Northern Railroad was chartered ' To construct, acquire, maintain, lease, or operate a line of railroad or railroads from a point between Galliver and Crestview on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in Okaloosa County, to a point in said county on Choctawhatchee Bay, a distance of approximately twenty-eight miles.

It is said that the inhabitants persuaded the railroad company to build a station by agreeing to rename their city Haines City, to honor a senior railroad official, Colonel Henry Haines.

The Coleman Institute Catalog said that it was named for John Reynolds, one of Georgia's famous governors, while another source said it was named for the superintendent of the railroad at the time.

This was said to have been done to make the town look as large as possible to railroad promoters.

In former years, Noble had four hotels: The Cottage Hotel operated by the Black family ; the old Gertsch Hotel located on the north side of main street ( this was said to be one of the oldest buildings in town ); Hotel Hazel, a large frame building ( later covered with brick ), which was just north of the railroad on Noble Avenue ; and Truitt's OK Hotel in the northwestern part of Noble.

It's said that a railroad engineer ( Lee Goudey ) with a speech impediment said they " needed to build a dupo in this area " instead of depot.

The name change is said to have been made during the 19th century by the railroad, in order to distinguish the village in Illinois from Jeffersonville, Indiana.

The source of the city is said to have been suggested by a railroad engineer who rode one of the first trains through Tampa.

Rail Transportation, the Massachusetts Military Reservation is said to have railroad track stretching into the town.

Canadian bankers financed building the railroad through here, and the settlement is said to have been named in honor of the king of England.

As a result it was ordered that the election of subscribing the said sum of ten thousand dollars to the capital stock of the said railroad company be submitted to the qualified voters of the Dutchville Township and that an election be held in the said township at the proper voting place therein on the 8th day of October 1887.

Also, it is said that when the town was moved 1 / 2 mile west in order to be located adjacent to the railroad, the city fathers, when laying out the town site, decided to make the streets wide enough to accommodate angle parking at the curbs, two lanes of traffic, and sufficient room for street cars.

" by a railroad surveyor, an early settler said " It's my land.

The railroad workers said they were bringing things " to Dunbar " the cook.

By, Somers was at the end of his tether, and sold the team to a syndicate headed by Chicago railroad contractor James C. " Jack " Dunn.

Conrail takes control at midnight, as a government-owned and operated railroad until 1986, when it is sold to the public.

Time was also " sold " to the railroads and was used in conjunction with railroad chronometers to schedule American rail transport.

Two of the most scenic routes survived in operation by the D & RGW, until they were sold to tourist railroad operators.

The amount of land in native hands rapidly depleted from some to a small by 1900, as the remainder of the land once allotted to appointed natives was declared surplus and sold to non-native settlers as well as railroad and other large corporations, and was also converted into federal parks and military compounds.

In the 1880s, the railroads purchased land in the west from the federal government, which was then sold to individuals to help finance the railroad projects.

Historic Vicksburg, Shreveport, and Pacific Railroad depot in downtown Ruston ; Robert Russ | Robert Edwin Russ, the founder of Ruston, sold land to the railroad in 1883.

In 1905, the Union Pacific Missouri and Northern Arkansas Railroad bought the area and sold over one thousand lots, mostly to railroad employees.

While the tracks were removed and sold as scrap, there are still signs of the railroad where the old concrete supports crossed the Buffalo River.

The name honors William Le Grand Dickinson, who sold the railroad land for the town.

The town has two railroad stations: Wilton and Cannondale ( a sub-station where tickets are not sold ), both part of the Danbury Line of Metro-North Railroad.

To ensure the success of his speculative venture, the owner deeded every other block to the railroad in return for moving its tracks and sold lots on the remaining blocks to railroad employees.

Here the railroad built their depot and many lots were sold.

Soon after it opened, the line was sold to the Chicago and Texas railroad in the fall of 1895.

Most of the site of the future village of Winnebago was sold at $ 80 per acre to a group of men who then laid out where the railroad would pass.

Bradshaw then sold to Octave Chanute, a railroad civil engineer, who platted a town in 1869.

Later, the railroad was sold to the Missouri Pacific Railroad, it became the second " Bethany " on their railroad system.

When Henry Timken sold the land to the railroad, one of the conditions was that the town was named after him.

De Goeijen sold a $ 3, 000, 000 stock issue for Stilwell's railroad and he was permitted to name the place after his hometown and birthplace of Zwolle, a riverside city of currently over 120, 000 population in the Netherlands.

When the railroad suspended building in the 1880s, the Davis brothers disbanded and sold their property to the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company.

In 1870, Ben Plumb, a land speculator and developer, sold building lots around the railroad junction and named the settlement Huntington City.

Cost overruns killed the line after one year and the railroad went bankrupt and was sold.

Much of the land was originally transferred to the railroad, and subsequently sold to settlers.