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.

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.

The coming of the railroad to North Cambridge and Northwest Cambridge then led to three major changes in the city: the development of massive brickyards and brickworks between Massachusetts Ave., Concord Ave. and Alewife Brook ; the ice-cutting industry launched by Frederic Tudor on Fresh Pond ; and the carving up of the last estates into residential subdivisions to provide housing to the thousands of immigrants that arrived to work in the new industries.

The Eisenhowers then lived in Texas from 1889 until 1892, and later returned to Kansas, with $ 24 to their name at the time ; David worked as a mechanic with a railroad and then with a creamery.

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.

Liberal concessions allowed U. S. based concerns to enter the Honduran market, first as shipping companies, and then as railroad and banana producing enterprises.

They were first hidden at Senator David Levy Yulee's plantation in Florida, then placed in the care of a railroad agent in Waldo.

He then traveled in Europe and worked on a railroad in Yugoslavia for six months.

He then faded from the public view, moving to Rochester, New York in 1943, working as a railroad porter for the New York Central Railroad and as a chef.

Grant then maneuvered the Union Army to Cold Harbor, a vital railroad hub that was linked to Richmond, but Lee was able to make strong trenches to defend against a Union assault.

While an " underground railroad " running south toward Florida, then a Spanish possession, existed from the late 17th century until shortly after the American Revolution, the network now generally known as the Underground Railroad was formed in the early 19th century, and reached its height between 1850 and 1860.

* June – The Grand Excursion takes prominent Eastern United States inhabitants from Chicago, Illinois to Rock Island, Illinois by railroad, then up the Mississippi River to St. Paul, Minnesota by steamboat.

While the Pacific Railroad Act was to award the eastern contract to the newly formed Union Pacific, it was left up to then President Lincoln to formally choose the location for the railroad to start and Lincoln in 1862 was to follow the advice of his former client.

Established in 1834 and having operated continuously since then, it is the oldest US railroad still operating under its original name and charter.

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.

The railroad connected Paris with Marseille ( 1848 ) and then with Toulon and Nice ( 1864 ).

The plan was to relieve Port Arthur by sea, link up with the First Pacific Squadron, overwhelm the Imperial Japanese Navy, and then delay the Japanese advance into Manchuria until Russian reinforcements could arrive via the Trans-Siberian railroad and overwhelm the Japanese land forces in Manchuria.

Prior to the Elkins Act, the livestock and petroleum industries paid standard rail shipping rates, but then would demand that the railroad company give them rebates.

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.

Equally important, the railroad cut travel time from Binghamton to New York City, then the most rapidly growing area of the United States, from 5 days to 12 hours.

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

The arrival of steam-powered water transport and then the railroad opened urban markets to another of Worcester County's principal products: seafood, particularly shellfish.

A small portion of a major CSX Transportation railroad line passes through the southwest corner of the county, entering from Clinton to the west, then going south toward Terre Haute.

Atlanta grew because the city of Decatur did not want to become the railroad terminus in the 1830s, thus a spot at the Thrasherville encampment in western DeKalb was picked to become Terminus and then Marthasville, before becoming Atlanta a few years after its founding.

Many industries, notably textiles, firearms, clocks and watches, buttons, horse-drawn vehicles, railroad cars and locomotives, sewing machines, and bicycles, saw expeditious improvement in materials handling, machining, and assembly during the 19th century, although modern concepts such as industrial engineering and logistics had not yet been named.

Edsger Dijkstra invented the shunting-yard algorithm to convert infix expressions to postfix ( RPN ), so named because its operation resembles that of a railroad shunting yard.

* June 25 – Rapid Bucureşti is formed on the initiative of the Griviţa railroad workers ( first named CFR Bucureşti ).

As part of the 1862 Pacific Railroad Act, Congress named several existing railroad companies to complete portions of the project.

Asa Packer named his university ' Lehigh ' after his other passion, the railroad, despite suggestions from some to call it ' Packer University '.

It was named for John Work Garrett ( 1820 – 1884 ), railroad executive, industrialist, and financier.

The Galveston Railway, originally established and named in 1854 as the Galveston Wharf and Cotton Press Company, is a Class III terminal switching railroad that primarily serves the transportation of cargo to and from the Port of Galveston.

Along with the Elkins Act of 1903, the Hepburn Act, named for its sponsor, eleven-term Republican William Peters Hepburn, was a subset of one of President Theodore Roosevelt's major goals: railroad regulation.

The city was originally to be named " Dicksonville ," after local citizen Thomas Dickson who had donated some of his land to create a railroad depot.

The Garden is located in the office and entertainment complex formally addressed as Pennsylvania Plaza and commonly known as Penn Plaza, named for the railroad station.

At the crossing of an abandoned railroad line that is now the Henry Hudson Trail, the route entirely enters Matawan, continuing northwest through business areas as a four-lane road named Middlesex Street.

Originally named Strawbridge by founder Cyrus W. “ Charley ” Wilson, the name was later changed in honor of railroad Engineer Joseph P. Sanderson.

O ' Donnell, named for railroad man Tom J. O ' Donnell, was established in 1910 as a speculative venture based on the opening up of new farmlands in southern Lynn and northern Dawson counties.

Within a short time, the small railroad stop turned into a sizable town and was named county seat in 1903.

Landowner Robert E. Montgomery platted the town of Washburn, named after railroad executive D. W. Washburn.

Founded in 1910 from a portion of Marion County, both Dillon County and its county seat, the city of Dillon, were named for prosperous local citizen James W. Dillon ( 1826-1913 ), an Irishman who settled there and led a campaign to bring the railroad into the community.

The railroad decided to plot the town on land near Williamsport owned by a man named John Roop.

It was named after railroad executive George Washington Cass ( 1810-1888 ).

It was named after Charles E. Perkins, the president of a railroad.

It was named after railroad pioneer Thomas L. Kimball.

It is named after Loyd Grisham, a man who helped build a railroad spur here from the Belmont Branch Railroad around 1910.

| named for = Edmund Pennington, a longtime railroad operator.

It is named after Canadian fur trader and railroad entrepreneur Norman Kittson.

Karlstad was named after a Swedish immigrant, Carl August Carlson, who allowed the Soo Line to put the railroad through his homestead.

The county was named for Charles Arthur Broadwater, a noted Montana railroad, real estate, and banking magnate.