Until internal combustion became cheap, he had to be near a railroad siding and a trolley line or an existing large community of lower-class homes.

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

In fact, one of the county's larger towns, Crewe, owes its existence to the railroad siding established at Robertson's Switch in the 1880s.

It was originally a railroad siding where ore trains from the Bisbee mines joined with the main Southern Pacific rail line.

Situated in the Hualapai Valley between the Cerbat and Hualapai mountain ranges, Kingman is known for its very modest beginnings as a simple railroad siding near Beale ’ s Springs in the Middleton Section along the newly-constructed route of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad.

The explosion occurred during a propane transfer from a Doxol railroad car to a storage tank on the Getz rail siding near Andy Devine Avenue / Route 66.

Orcutt, originally sited along a railroad siding of the Pacific Coast Railroad as a townsite for oil field workers, is now primarily a bedroom community / suburb of Santa Maria, which is adjacent to the north.

It received its name when the Florida East Coast Railway built a siding in 1903, operated by an employee of the railroad named Goulds.

The Village of Golf supposedly received its name because there was a railroad siding at that location where the private car of the president of Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Rail Road ( The Milwaukee Road ) would be placed so that he could play golf at the private Glen View Club, just east of the siding.

Some have speculated that the railroad siding took its name from a local family.

* Kurtz is a named locality approximately four miles east of Glennie on the boundary with Mikado Township near the Kurtz Creek ( a tributary of the South Branch Pine River ) at Kurtz was a logging camp by a railroad siding founded by Hugo Kurtz circa 1900.

According to Quaw, the townsite was a blind railroad siding nine and seven tenths miles west of Bozeman, and was named Belgrade after the capital of Serbia as an expression of appreciation to Serbian investors who helped finance a portion of the Northern Pacific Railroad.

Ada Channel, who had a homestead near the railroad siding, became the school's first teacher.

The Webster Citizens Company ice house stood on the west shore of the Upper Lake with a three car rail siding to serve it, and was listed as a railroad business as late as 1931.

The Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railroad established a railroad stop and siding at the community location.

The railroad siding was named Odessa Siding by railroad surveyors after Odessa, then in southern Russia, because of the German-speaking Russian wheat farmers in the area.

Deer Park was settled in 1889 when a railroad siding was built for the Spokane Falls & Northern Railway.

A railroad switch, turnout or of points is a mechanical installation enabling railway trains to be guided from one track to another, such as at a railway junction or where a spur or siding branches off.

Jesse, meanwhile, is ostracized by his father and no longer welcome at the ranch after siding with railroad men, headed by Mr. Langford ( Otto Kruger ), against the Senator's personal interests.

* Jack Kerouac's " The Dharma Bums " contains the passage: " Pretty soon we headed into another siding at a small railroad town and I figured I needed a poor-boy of Tokay wine to complete the cold dusk run to Santa Barbara.

Rural folks were accustomed to mail-ordering through the Sears catalog, and the Sears Motor Buggy could be delivered to the nearest railroad siding, an important convenience.

In his dissent, Bradley argued that the majority had in siding with the railroad created a situation where the reasonableness of an act of a state legislature was a judicial question, subjugating the legislature to the will of the judiciary.

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.

The logic of creating a strong, balanced, competitive two-system railroad service in the East is so obvious that B. & O. was publicly committed to the approach outlined here.

The interlocking frame we built at the model railroader workshop and then installed on Paul Larson's railroad follows the Fig. 1 scheme and is shown beginning in Fig. 7, page 65, and in the photos.

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.

However, there is one railroad that connects Chile with Argentina via the Andes, and there are others that make the same connection via southern Bolivia.

*" The Ballad of Casey Jones " is a traditional song about railroad engineer Casey Jones and his death at the controls of the train he was driving.

The Cobble Hill Tunnel ( popularly the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel ) of the Long Island Rail Road is an abandoned railroad tunnel beneath Atlantic Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, New York City.

* 1873 – American Indian Wars: while protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Sioux near the Tongue River ; only one man on each side is killed.

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

It is located in the southwest part of the state, about southwest of Macon, Georgia on the Central of Georgia railroad.

With the span of, the Solkan Bridge over the Soča River at Solkan in Slovenia is the second largest stone bridge in the world and the longest railroad stone bridge.

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.

A new bridge link with Romania is scheduled for completion in 2012, relieving road and railroad congestion in that direction.

* 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.

* North Cambridge ( Area 11 ) is bordered on the north by the Arlington and Somerville borders, on the south by railroad tracks, on the west by the Belmont border, and on the east by the Somerville border.

* Cambridge Highlands ( Area 12 ) is bordered on the north and east by railroad tracks, on the south by Fresh Pond, and on the west by the Belmont border.

* Strawberry Hill ( Area 13 ) is bordered on the north by Fresh Pond, on the south by the Watertown border, on the west by the Belmont border, and on the east by railroad tracks.

Road travel is the main means of transport ; almost 70 percent of cargo is transported by road, as compared with 27 percent by railroad, 3 percent by internal waterways, and 1 percent by air.

In Atlantic City, a 4-5 is called a " railroad nine ".