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The railroad, the second one built in Madison County, passed through the center of town and was responsible for the growth of Bethalto.
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The proposed C & O-B & O railroad would make it the hemisphere's second largest.
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.
It is the second busiest commuter railroad in North America ( only recently surpassed by its sister railroad, Metro-North ), serving about 81 million passengers each year.
The second section of Treblinka II ( lower camp ) was the receiving area where the railroad extended from the Treblinka station into the camp.
A second major railroad, the Dakar-Niger built from 1906 – 1923, linked Dakar to Bamako and consolidated the city's position at the head of France's West African empire.
In less than a year ( June 1867 ), the railroad was repossessed by the state of Missouri after Frémont was unable to pay the second installment on his purchase.
A north – south route crosses the county, and intersects with a second railroad line that connects Hartford City with communities to the west.
Although work constructing the railroad line began in the 1850s, it was not completed ( by connecting Fort Wayne to Muncie ) until 1870, and this delay caused it to be the second railroad to operate in Blackford County.
The " Dorsey Trailer Company " was constructed at the end of this railroad line, and this company manufactured the highway trailers that served on railroads and highways starting with the piggyback railroad or containerized cargo boom of the second half of the 20th century.
In 1879, the Southern Pacific Railroad was in the process of building a railroad line from Yuma to Tucson, and a second railroad line was to be built from Maricopaville, wrapping around the western edge of South Mountain into Phoenix.
A second railroad was laid through Hanford in 1897, which today is the main north-south line of the BNSF Railway through the San Joaquin Valley.
A second railroad ( Valdosta / Morven & Western RR ) came through Morven in the 1920s.
When the first charter of the town was secured by an attorney representing the railroad ( Middleton P. Barrow ), the name was changed to Cornelia in honor of his second wife ( and daughter of Confederate Major General Henry R. Jackson ), and so it has remained.
In 1869 the prospects of Dwight were improved when a second railroad was constructed linking Dwight with Streator, Illinois.
The second railroad ran east and west and was called the " Three I " or Illinois, Indiana, and Iowa Railroad, later the New York Central.
In 1879 a second railroad, the Kankakee and Southwestern, passed through the town and was given a right of way down Second Street.
The people of Forrest worked to attract a second railroad.
Two other Cheney brothers, Jonathan H. Cheney and William H. Cheney-who was the second largest landowner in Cheney ’ s Grove Township-became members of the railroad ’ s Board of Directors.
Like many larger industrial cities, it has been severely affected by loss of jobs in the restructuring of the railroad industry and de-industrialization of the Rust Belt in the second half of the 20th century.
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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.
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.
A writer for the Boston Post referred to Alcott's " Orphic Sayings " as " a train of fifteen railroad cars with one passenger.
* 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.
The Austro-Hungarian investigation of the assassination rounded up all but one of the assassins and also much of the underground railroad that had been used to transport the assassins and their weapons from Serbia to Sarajevo.
" 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 fostered the growth of the community into one of the largest communities in Indiana, and three more railroads reached the city by 1850.
* Gauntlet track, a section of two railroad tracks that overlap to allow them to pass a narrow bridge or tunnel in little more than the space of one track
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.
Mali has only one railroad, including 729 kilometers in Mali, which runs from the port of Koulikoro via Bamako to the border with Senegal and continues on to Dakar.
A British firm began building a railroad from Asunción to Paraguarí, one of South America's first, in 1858.
However, when Puerto Rico changed its mostly agricultural economy to an industrialized one, and the U. S. and Puerto Rican governments started investing heavily in interstate highways and freeways, the railroad business soon collapsed.
* Rotary snowplow, one type of railroad snowplow used especially for deep snow removal
Morse also at one time adopted Wheatstone and Carl August von Steinheil's idea of broadcasting an electrical telegraph signal through a body of water or down steel railroad tracks or anything conductive.
Construction of a high speed railroad line between Ankara and Konya was begun in order to connect the two cities with a direct line and reduced travel time from several hours to approximately one hour.
** The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway is merged with the Burlington Northern Railroad to form the BNSF Railway, making it one of the largest railroad mergers in U. S. history.
Modern-day Interstate 80 closely follows the path of the railroad, with one exception.
The 1962 film How the West Was Won has a whole segment devoted to the construction ; one of the movie's most famous scenes, filmed in Cinerama, is of a buffalo stampede over the railroad.
* Spike — A punk vampire who has killed two previous Slayers, Spike took his nickname from one of his former killings which involved a railroad spike.
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.
* Pilotman, member of a railroad company's staff who travels on every train, and whose duties are to ensure that no more than one train is present in any given section of railroad tracks
In 1842, the railroad from Leiden to Haarlem was inaugurated and one year later the railway to Den Haag was completed, resulting in some social and economic improvement.
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.
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