When two bills were passed to reduce railroad fares, Hughes vetoed them on that grounds that the rates should be set by expert commissioners rather than by elected ones.

When Ogden came to lead the Union Pacific, the railroad wasn't fully funded and hadn't yet laid a single mile of track — the railroad existed largely on paper created by an act of Congress.

When it was to be constructed, the engineers proposed to Nicholas that he draw the path of the future railroad on the map himself.

When the Republican Party came to power in 1860 they promoted a free land policy — notably the Homestead Act of 1862, coupled with railroad land grants that opened cheap ( but not free ) lands for settlers.

When there was not enough industry in the areas Hill was building, Hill brought the industry in, often by buying out a company and placing plants along his railroad lines.

When Regina asks Horace outright for the money, he refuses, so Leo, a bank teller, is pressured into stealing his uncle Horace's railroad bonds from the bank's safety deposit box.

When N & W converted to diesel, 2, 000 railroad workers were laid off.

When Dunson establishes that none of these wayfarers have seen the railroad, he disregards the news in favor of plugging on to Missouri.

When Parris suggests they move into one of the homes they've built, away from the railroad tracks and sounds of the trains that plague Drake, he becomes hysterical and makes Randy swear to never make him leave the room.

When the county was created, the founders wanted to include access to the transcontinental railroad, so a rectangular section was added that includes the railroad town of Truckee.

When the railroad bypassed the Contharp Community, many of the residents relocated to work at a nearby sawmill.

When the county's rail lines were constructed in the 1860s and 1870s, additional communities evolved around railroad stops.

When Musella became a flag stop, the railroad offered better opportunities for farmers to market their products, so many of the residents of nearby Ceres, Georgia, ( named after Roman goddess of agriculture ; settlement also called Hopewell ) migrated to Musella.

When Union force occupied Baton Rouge in May 1862, all rolling stock was sent to the extreme western end of the railroad for safety where it remained for the duration of the war.

When the railroad was not built into Tombstone as had been planned, the increasingly sophisticated city of Tombstone remained relatively isolated, deep in a Federal territory that was largely an unpopulated desert and wilderness.

When the railroad was constructed from Needles, California to Kingman, Arizona, Hardyville was abandoned and became a ghost town.

When the east-west railroad line was completed, it crossed the north-south line near the boxcar, and the name " Wynne Junction " became well known in the area.

When the railroad came into McGehee in 1878 and continued south and southwest, people began to move into the area.

When the railroad came through, Robinson deeded a small tract of his land back to the railroad for a depot site.

When the Saint Louis-San Francisco ( Frisco ) railroad came through the area thirty years later, a small passenger and freight station was built and a post office to serve the small community was set up across the road in the back of the general store that was operated by the McNabs.

" When the day ’ s work was completed, the railroad construction crew, mostly all immigrants from neighboring towns, cooked their supper over an open fire and returned to their homes when the last " skillet was licked.

When the Warwick and Napton Canal opened, this section was bypassed but served as the town's wharf area.

When the Interstate Highway system was funded, and sometimes locally as some cities, counties or states improved their own local highway networks, stretches of road containing a lot of turns, frequent stops ( traffic signals ), and-or narrow hard to widen ways and roadbeds, stretches of local roads became bypassed and locally named Old Lincoln Highway.

When I-40 bypassed the town soon after, the local economy never fully recovered.

When the former seaport was bypassed during construction of railroad lines in the 19th century, its decline continued.

When the Chicago St Paul Minneapolis and Omaha Railroad laid tracks in 1899 and bypassed the town, the townspeople moved themselves and their city to a favorable spot on the railroad line.

When the railroad was completed around 1882, it bypassed Lakeville.

When the base closed and Interstate 40 bypassed Foss the town declined further.

When the gold deposits were worked out, and the railway bypassed Jacksonville in 1884, the city's economy slowed.

When the railroad line was built from Knoxville through Cumberland Gap in the late 1880s, it bypassed the town of Tazewell.

When bypassed by the Northern Pacific Railroad in December 1884, over 100 buildings were moved with rollers and horse teams to the nearby site of the depot.

When the nearby communities of Belleveu, Jamestown, Rocky Mount, and Salem were all bypassed by the railroad, Overton gained the businesses and people who wanted to benefit from the railroad lines.

When a defensive line was too extensive to be entirely bypassed, massive offensive might could be massed against one part of the line allowing a breakthrough, after which the rest of the line could be bypassed.

When Winston Churchill became Prime Minister in 1940, he bypassed the War Office altogether and appointed himself Minister of Defence ( though there was, curiously, no ministry of defence until 1947 ).

When I-82 was approved in 1956, the Tri-Cities wanted an Interstate, since Interstate 82 bypassed the cities.

When Niles was bypassed in the 1950s, a business loop ( Business M-60, BUS M-60 ) was created through town.

When it came to choosing Price's successor, the Caucus bypassed several other old hawkish members of the committee in favor of Les Aspin, who was not only much younger than Price and other more senior members, but also seemed closer in his defense policy preferences to the majority of the Democratic Caucus.

When the line reopens, the town of Wodonga and old station will be bypassed and closed, with a new station opening in the north of town.

When heat recovery is not required, it is typical for the device to be bypassed by use of dampers arranged within the ventilation distribution system.

When a combined command ( ABDA ) was finally created in January 1942, he was bypassed for the post of commander of the navy, in favour of Admiral Thomas C. Hart of the United States Navy.

When the Champ Car series began using the track in 2002, the peraltada curve was partially bypassed by a series of sharp turns entering and exiting the baseball field ; re-entering the peraltada halfway through.

When Interstate 15 freeway opened in 1968, the town of Yermo was immediately bypassed by traffic traveling to and from Las Vegas, Nevada.

When Khas peoples migrated eastward, they bypassed the inhospitable Kham highlands to settle in the lower valleys of the Gandaki basin suited to rice cultivation.