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The railroad spur helped promote the boom of the 1880s.
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But anybody who promises a substantial volume of business can get a railroad to run a short spur to his plant these days, and many businesses can live without the railroad.
That railroad spur, the Nevada-California-Oregon Railway line running from Lakeview to Reno, Nevada, emphasized the isolation of the county from the rest of Oregon.
Three men who helped to perpetrate this swindle, including the county attorney and a judge of the county court, were shot and killed on April 24, 1872 while on board a Katy railroad spur between Bryson, Missouri and Paola, Kansas ( in or near what is now known as Gunn City ).
It is named after Loyd Grisham, a man who helped build a railroad spur here from the Belmont Branch Railroad around 1910.
" Minidoka was first used in 1883 as a name for the Union Pacific's Oregon Short Line, a railroad spur in the middle of the Snake River Plain.
A railroad spur from Columbus, Georgia was completed the next year and in 1883 the town name was changed to Hurtsboro.
Southern Pacific Railroad built the first railroad spur to Whittier in 1887.
Served by a railroad spur from Riverside, the city became a trading center for the San Jacinto Valley's agriculture, which included citrus, apricots, peaches, olives and walnuts.
In addition there is an abandoned railroad spur owned by the Florida Midland Railroad that once led to Leesburg, but now runs along Sumter County Road 44A and was the home for some abandoned freight cars until some point in the first decade of the 21st Century.
The Knickerbocker Ice Company built a plant ( 1888 ) on the south shore of Deep Lake with a railroad spur to the site.
The railroad line was closed, and the tracks removed in 1988, leaving only a small spur line outside of town which connects to Mount Vernon, Kentucky.
This spur links the two main lines of the railroad in southeastern Massachusetts ; the easternmost heads to Cape Cod via the line used by the MBTA, and the westernmost proceeds to split in Taunton, sending two lines towards Fall River and New Bedford, respectively.
However, the railroad did extend a spur line in order to serve Columbus, and that spur line joins the main line at the site of present-day Artesia.
In May 1942, construction workers descended upon an area known to locals as the " Blue Flats " because of the color of the soil and began building a railroad spur for the new air base.
Later on, a spur line was built from Lamy to Santa Fe, bringing the railroad to Santa Fe at last.
The next year the railroad completed a spur from Socorro, originally intended to ship cattle from the Plains of San Agustin, but which also proceeded to ship out ore from the Kelly Mine and others.
The building had its own railroad spur that allowed boxcars to be unloaded inside, making delivery of goods to the building easier.
The bricks were shipped out by railroad using a LIRR spur which ran along what is now N. 23rd Street.
By 1880 two railroad lines passed through the community, helping to spur economic and population growth.
A railroad spur led from the No. 2 past the No. 4 breaker in Kingston, Pennsylvania | Kingston ( shown on the far lower right of the map ).
Between 1866 and 1871, the Jefferson Branch, a railroad spur of the D & H Canal Company., was built in Forest Mills.
Faith was the permanent end of the railroad, a local spur off the Milwaukee Road Railroad.
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While the company helped build some schools, it opposed the building highways, as they would compete with the UFC's railroad monopoly.
After regaining his position, he saw the railroad through to completion in 1885, a means of transportation and freight conveyance that helped unite Canada as one nation.
They agree that he had a vision, and his optimism helped popularize the remarkable plan of building a transcontinental railroad, convinced the Big Four to finance it, and was instrumental in securing Congressional passage of the 1862 law.
* People who helped slaves find the railroad were " agents " ( or " shepherds ")
Many popular, nonacademic sources claim that spirituals and other songs, such as " Steal Away " or " Follow the Drinking Gourd ", contained coded information and helped individuals navigate the railroad, but these sources offer very little evidence to support their claims.
The coming of the railroad resulted in the end of most of the far slower and more hazardous stagecoach lines and wagon trains, and it led to a great decline of traffic on the Oregon and California Trail, which had helped populate much of the West.
* 1870-Air line Railroad build a railroad through the county which helped to form Seneca and Westminster
With the assistance of his uncle, Charles W. Smith, whose connections had helped him obtain the position, Fairbanks was able to become a railroad financier, and served as counsel for millionaire Jay Gould.
The town grew slowly until the 1880s, when railroad links, the discovery of phosphate, and the arrival of the cigar industry jump-started Tampa's development and helped it to grow into an important city by the early 1900s.
That he helped to develop banks, churches, streets, public utilities and railroad transportation.
Dr. Henry Perrine practiced medicine near Greenville and helped with the secret railroad activities.
They helped build the railroad and Blackstone Canal, further driving Worcester's economic engine.
In 1852, the railroad helped bring new business, including Branford Lockworks, Malleable Iron Fittings Company, and the Atlantic Wire Company.
This and other favorite circumstances have helped Bremen to grow from a simple railroad junction settled by German immigrants to the largest town in Haralson County, Georgia.
Cheney was one of three sons of early McLean County settler Jonathan Cheney active in promoting the Lafayette Bloomington and Mississippi Railroad ; when his brother, Haines Cheney, was in the Illinois Senate he had helped to arrange the charter of the railroad.
After the original Ferguson post office was closed, the Luretha Post Office was renamed in 1850 for Cincinnati attorney Edward Ferguson, who helped get railroad tracks laid through the community in 1869.
They helped to cut the railroad ties used to build the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railway in 1874.
Eventually the steamboats to Chaska and the St. Paul railroad helped transform the local area into its own thriving community.
There is no record of Charles Bigelow visiting the town that bears his name, though it is likely he passed through on the railroad that he helped to create.
Mrs. Anna Bufkin was a member of one of the first families to live in the section house as her husband was one that helped grade and build that part of the railroad in Purvis.
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.
Two railroad lines with passenger and freight service brought much business to the village and helped support several hotels.
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