Word: railroads
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...service tunnel in which last week's breakthrough occurred lies between two larger railroad tunnels, not as close to completion, through which Chunnel traffic will be carried. By the year 2003, an average of 54,500 passengers on the vehicle shuttles and 67,670 passengers on the railway trains are forecast to transit the tunnel daily. The vehicles will be carried on shuttle trains initially running at least every 15 minutes at peak periods and making the crossing in 35 minutes. Alternating will be passenger trains, while freight will trundle through in off-peak hours. For motorists, travel time between...
...cheap grass," to the border of Rosebud and Custer counties, just above Miles City, Mont. Mathers did not trail a herd a thousand miles across the powdery plains, fending off Kiowa and Comanche, or ford the snake-infested Nueces River. Instead, he put 200 Herefords on the Santa Fe Railroad, climbed into his blue Oldsmobile and rolled smoothly up Highway 83. He was there in two days. (Lonesome Dove's McCrae and Call took months.) Mathers bought up old homestead land for $5 to $8 an acre, quit trying to plow and plant wheat and barley, and gently coaxed back...
...There's large industrial applications," Riordan said, ranging from moving railroad boxcars around more easily to exploiting the power of electromagnetism inside an atom...
...square's second period of growth occured in 1853 as the Grand Junction Railroad was run across the Cambridgeport section of the city filling in marsh and making way for new construction of factories and providing an industrial base...
...rate, the teenage and penniless F.H. found his way to Ellsworth and prospered there, somehow buying and selling farms and houses, building and operating a three-story hotel called the Orient, a shingle mill, a hardware store and a waterworks, and donating land for a station when the railroad came through in '92. That was the year he and two other men paid a surveyor to plot out the town. That year -- and any other, according to a town history -- he was good for a suit of clothes, or a railroad ticket, or the rent money, when someone was down...