Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...People want resident-only parking here--the nearby railroad station means the streets are always clogged," Crehan says. Crehan and his precinct's other representatives to the town meeting will discuss the problem Tuesday at a precinct assembly, but Crehan says the chances for a solution are dim: "A lot of politically powerful people in the town park on our streets...
LAST WEEK's leak of toxic gas in Somerville after a railroad crash did more than irritate eyes--it set to rest the misguided notion that it is somehow possible to evacuate an urban area quickly in an unanticipated emergency...
...Boston and Maine locomotive crashed into a tank car on a railroad siding in the Somerville train yard at 9 a.m. yesterday, cutting a large gash in the side of the 13,000 gallon tank and sending the liquid streaming...
...railroad tank car rupture in Somerville sent a huge white cloud of toxic gas drifting over parts of that city, Cambridge and Boston yesterday, forcing thousands to flee their homes and jobs, and sending 100 victims to local hospitals. local hospitals...
...Remington is middleaged, but one can sniff gunpowder in his temperament. Remington (played with granitic force by Michael Kevin) begins on an elegiac note. He recalls sitting beside a wintry campfire and hearing a gnarled veteran of the receding frontier say: "In a few years, the railroad will come all along the Yellowstone ... the wild riders and the vacant lands are about to vanish forever " But for a boy of 19, there were plenty of adventures left. In a yeasty anecdotal vein, Remington tells tales of canoeing shallow rivers and being spilled into the foaming rapids...