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The railroad town of Allenton is a former community on U. S. Highway 66 located ( now ) at the junction of Interstate 44 and Business Loop 44 in western St. Louis County.
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Since that time the telegraph office has shifted in location from the railroad station at the Depot and shops at the Center back to the town clerk's office and drugstore at the Village.
He gathers the town, along with the railroad workers, three miles east of Rock Ridge to build a fake town as a diversion.
" 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.
In 1871, the Intercolonial Railway of Canada chose Moncton to be its headquarters, and Moncton remained a railroad town for well over a century until the closure of the Canadian National Railway ( CNR ) locomotive shops in the late 1980s.
The growth continued when a railroad was built through town in 1893.
* Sulphur, Nevada, a ghost town and railroad siding at the Kamma Mountains in the Black Rock Desert
Biko is buried in King William Town, Eastern Cape Province in the town cemetery near the railroad tracks.
The first railroad came to the town in 1862.
Born as a result of the railroad being built here instead of at Middleton to the west in 1860, Winona was originally a part of Carroll County and was incorporated as a town on May 2, 1861.
An influx of settlers started after the location of the railroad and Winona became a busy town.
* The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates the railroad town of Goldsborough, and the Wayne county seat is moved to the new town.
The main character in The Claim ( 2000 ) is a surveyor for the Central Pacific Railroad, and the film is partially about the effort of a frontier mayor to have the railroad routed through his town.
They established farms and orchards supported by small-scale irrigation projects and railroad transportation, with small town centers at Hanford, White Bluffs, and Richland.
In 1890, the railroad reached town, which brought in more mines and brought out more ore.
The town was renamed Tigard in 1907 by the railroad to greater distinguish it from the nearby Wilsonville, and the focus of the town reoriented northeast towards the new rail stop as growth accelerated.
Harlingen has a rich history as a railroad town.
However, when the railroad was built through town the new station was called Gaithersburg, an officially recognized name for the community for the first time.
** Rockport ( MBTA station ), a railroad station in the town
In 1854, the new railroad from Fernandina to Cedar Key bypassed Newnansville, and Gainesville, a new town that was located on the railroad, began to draw business and residents away from Newnansville.
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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.
The railroad siding is still important -- it is usually, though not always, true that long-haul shipment by rail is cheaper than trucking.
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 ".
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The Central Pacific Railroad ( CPRR ) is the former name of the railroad network built between California and Utah, USA that formed part of the " First Transcontinental Railroad " in North America.
Much of the railroad infrastructure is still in a poor state, all of the rolling stock being inherited from the former Soviet Union.
* The Rock or Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, former Class I railroad in the United States
Stanford was founded by Leland Stanford, a railroad magnate, United States Senator, and former California governor, and his wife, Jane Stanford.
" Conductors " on the railroad came from various backgrounds and included free-born blacks, white abolitionists, former slaves ( either escaped or manumitted ), and Native Americans.
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.
With the end of the Civil War and increased government supervision in the offing, Durant hired his former M & M engineer Grenville M. Dodge to build the railroad and the Union Pacific began a mad dash.
* 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.
In the mid-twentieth century, the NYS Thruway was constructed parallel to the former east-west routes of the canal and railroad.
Two of these railroad lines are now operated by CSX Transportation ; the former WM main line is now operated by Maryland Midland Railway.
Bermuda has of private paved roads ; of public paved roads ; of historic, mostly unpaved railroad trail, used in parts as a scenic trail ; two marine ports ( Hamilton and St. George's ), and one airport, the L. F. Wade International Airport, located at the former U. S. Naval Air Station.
They are ambushed by Pike's former partner, Deke Thornton ( Robert Ryan ), and a posse of bounty hunters hired and deputized by the railroad.
This section of Route 35 follows the right-of-way of the former Pennsylvania Railroad Between Seaside Heights and Mantoloking, with the southbound side following the former railroad right-of-way north of Ortley Beach.
The town is centered around the former railroad depot on Teays Lane.
He was recruited by former Confederate General Williams Carter Wickham to become a major investor and guiding light for a southern railroad.
A county historical museum is located in a former railroad depot at 303 S. First Street in Crockett.
George Bissell, a Yale University Chemistry professor, and Edwin L. Drake, a former railroad conductor, made the first successful use of a drilling rig on August 28, 1859 near Titusville, Pennsylvania.
* Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, a former American railroad, operating from 1869 to 1972 in the state of Virginia
Georgian Court University in Lakewood is a private Roman Catholic Sisters of Mercy college, which opened in 1908 on the former winter estate of millionaire George Jay Gould I, son of railroad tycoon Jay Gould.
A Kawasaki railroad cars assembly plant opened in 1986 in the former Otis plant, producing the new R142A, R143 and R160B cars for the New York City Subway, and the PA4 and upcoming PA5 series for PATH.
Polish soldiers advanced east along the former Prussian Eastern Railway to railroad crossroads 7 kilometres from the town of Chojnice ( Konitz ) where elements of the Polish cavalry attacked and dispersed the German infantry battalion.
First referred to as " Choctaw ", the town was named after railroad financier and former Union Civil War general, Samuel Thomas, after he donated $ 500 for the construction of Thomasville's first school.
During the next two years, school was held in local church buildings, the town's former bank building, and the U. S. Post Office building located near the railroad.
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