When the West Highland Line was built across Rannoch Moor, in western Scotland, its builders had to float the tracks on a mattress of tree roots, brushwood and thousands of tons of earth and ashes.

When Joseph Sprague retired in 1888, Ohio Falls was one of the largest and most profitable of the car builders.

When the builders began to transform the mastaba into the four step pyramid, they made a major shift in construction.

When the bond of builders J. J. E. Gibson and Pat McLaughlin for the sum of $ 26, 725 was issued in 1884 for them to erect a new courthouse for Shelby County, the firm of Wilson and Martin were among the securities.

Billet Steel: When a high quality camshaft is required, engine builders and camshaft manufacturers choose to make the camshaft from steel billet.

When the builders asked for the balance of £ 482, the Rees announced that the work was defective, and they were only prepared to pay £ 300.

When Gertrude Caton-Thompson wrote that the builders were indigenous Africans, she still characterised the site as the " product of an infantile mind " built by a subjugated society.

When builders examined the exterior façade, they discovered that the black colour visible even in photographs from the mid-nineteenth century was misleading ; the bricks were actually yellow.

When the Newburyport Turnpike opened for business on February 11, 1805, its builders claimed it was the best in the nation.

When the original Tombs building was condemned and demolished at the end of the century, builders sank enormous concrete caissons to bedrock, as much as 140 feet below street level, in order to give its replacement more secure foundations.

When the West Highland Line was built across Rannoch Moor, its builders had to float the tracks on a mattress of tree roots, brushwood and thousands of tons of earth and ashes.

When home builders were unhappy with their clients, and wanted to do something harmful, they could introduce Kikimora into the new house, by making a doll in her fashion and placing it under the main beam or under the front corner of the house.

When evaluating the prestige of this award it is important to understand that the judges are generally magazine editors whose publications accept advertising from boat builders.

When Chekhov was sixteen, his mother went into debt after having been cheated by some builders she had hired to construct a small house.

When a helicopter shows up ( sent by the builders of the time travel experiment ) to take Swann home, Reese's men run away in fear, but Reese stays behind and fires at the helicopter, killing one of the pilots.

When the builders inspected the building, it was discovered that the walls were too weak to support the structure.

When the narrow gauge Florida Southern Railway reached Arcadia in 1886, it was only a sleepy little town and the builders paused only briefly before pushing the railroad south to Punta Gorda.

When Rolls-Royce Diesels introduced their C range engine, it was quickly adopted by locomotive builders for use in Diesel-hydraulic locomotives.

When general Montecuccolis army won Battle of Saint Gotthard Turks signed Peace of Vasvár, to last 20 years.

When Gotthard Kettler died in 1587, his sons, Friedrich and Wilhelm, became the dukes of Courland.

When non-urban road tunnels are included, the Dublin Port Tunnel is shorter than some other European tunnels, such as the Lærdal Tunnel () in Norway ( 24. 5 km ), the Gotthard Road Tunnel in Switzerland ( 17 km ), the Mont Blanc Tunnel between France and Italy ( 11. 6 km ) and the Western Scheldt Tunnel () in The Netherlands ( 6. 6 km ).

When an unlabeled packet enters the ingress router and needs to be passed on to an MPLS tunnel, the router first determines the forwarding equivalence class ( FEC ) the packet should be in, and then inserts one or more labels in the packet's newly created MPLS header.

When a conducting tip is brought very near to the surface to be examined, a bias ( voltage difference ) applied between the two can allow electrons to tunnel through the vacuum between them.

When V is positive, electrons in the tip tunnel into empty states in the sample ; for a negative bias, electrons tunnel out of occupied states in the sample into the tip.

When attacked, wombats dive into a nearby tunnel, using their rump to block a pursuing attacker.

When pain is the primary symptom, carpal tunnel syndrome is unlikely to be the source of the symptoms.

When the fact that the electric field of light is an alternating electric field is combined with tunnel ionization, the phenomenon of non-sequential ionization emerges.

When the gates were opened, thousands of fans entered a narrow tunnel leading to the rear of the terrace into two overcrowded central pens, creating pressure at the front.

When completed, it will be the longest tunnel in the world, reducing travel time between Zürich and Lugano to 1 hour 40 minutes.

When Crossrail is built the rail line will drop below the surface and continue north and west under Woolwich to begin its journey under the river Thames in a way that serves the Isle of Dogs and the ExCeL exhibition centre, then the railway's tracks are likely to emerge from a tunnel beneath the River Thames at Plumstead sidings.

When the two ends of the tunnel were joined underground there was found to be less than error in their alignment.

When the treads of the escalator flashed over, the size of the fire increased exponentially and a sustained jet of flame was discharged from the escalator tunnel into the model ticket hall.

When the tunnel valley was free of ice and seawater, it was occupied by the river.

When Silver Line service begins, those trains will need to be routed through the tunnel, and so some of what were Blue Line trains to Largo Town Center are now diverted across the Fenwick Bridge to become Yellow Line Trains running all the way to Greenbelt.

When completed in 1905, it was the longest free-standing ( i. e., with no columnar supports ) tunnel in the world.

When the Queensway road tunnel opened in 1934, the ferry service from Seacombe lost two million passengers because people started to use the tunnel rather than the ferry.

When the road tunnel opened, traffic dropped by 80 %.

When travelling in the Birkenhead direction, the branch can still be seen inside the tunnel on the right just before the left hand bend towards the Birkenhead exit.

When driving through the tunnel, it appears as semi-circular.

When the Soviets began construction on a new embassy in 1977, the FBI dug a tunnel beneath the Soviet embassy, right under their decoding room.

When adequately fuelled, the giant circuit was capable of transferring massive amounts of energy over vast distances in order to generate two black holes as gateways to hyperspace and to sustain a tunnel that served as the motive power between them for the transport of an invading force of Nimons from the dying planet Crinoth to Skonnos.

When a train passes through the tunnel it pushes out the air in front of it toward the closest ventilation shaft in front, and " sucks-in " the air to the tunnel from the closest ventilation shaft behind it.

When placed inside a tunnel under a wall and exploded, large amounts of air would often be released from the tunnel, as the tunnel collapsed.