Search results for "Railroad car" - New World Encyclopedia
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- the segregation of blacks and whites on railroad cars in New Orleans. Between ... Plessy was asked to leave the railway car that had been designated for ...24 KB (3,703 words) - 12:44, 1 August 2022
- Division of General Motors, a maker of railroad locomotives, introduced ... :Jeep: A four-wheel drive car of one-half to one-and-one-half ton ...24 KB (3,439 words) - 04:31, 31 July 2022
- ====Use as car fuel==== Diesel-powered cars generally have a better ... in the Indianapolis 500, the first time a car had completed the race without ...30 KB (4,446 words) - 14:28, 29 January 2024
- automobile was shaped by the 1920s, when the car was thought of as entertainment ... (although the impoverished Pennsylvania Railroad was actually responsible ...25 KB (3,907 words) - 01:44, 16 December 2022
- For example, during the economic panic of 1893, the Pullman Palace ... The Railway Labor Act bans strikes by United States airline and railroad ...19 KB (2,876 words) - 20:58, 26 February 2023
- C. Wyeth's son) were killed in a car accident at a railway crossing near his Chadds Ford home in 1945. ==Philosophy== Wyeth's mentor ...11 KB (1,677 words) - 22:57, 10 November 2022
- instead of selling cars. He raced his car against those of other manufacturers ... In 1902, Ford continued to work on his race car to the dismay of the investors ...32 KB (4,898 words) - 15:22, 25 January 2023
- or railroads. A typical railway (or railroad) track consists of two parallel ... rail transit, a modern trolley or street-car system, has become more popular ...28 KB (4,136 words) - 02:08, 2 May 2023
- revenue, and profit. It is also the only car manufacturer to appear in ... Type A engine and its first passenger car (the Toyota AA) in 1936. It ...43 KB (6,055 words) - 04:51, 1 May 2023
- and his family were trapped in a derailed car when it rolled over an embankment ... grew out of his desire to promote a railroad from Chicago, Illinois to ...19 KB (2,905 words) - 05:14, 9 April 2024
- The city is a burgeoning port and railroad industry. Combined with ... By 1860, Houston had emerged as a commercial and railroad hub for ...38 KB (5,412 words) - 18:57, 7 February 2024
- *Road: Steam wagon, Steam bus, Steam tricycle, Steam car ... Skinner engine was fitted in 1950) and the car ferry, Badger.Max Hanley, ...41 KB (6,343 words) - 19:56, 9 February 2023
- viewed by Americans sitting on the top of railroad boxcars in El Paso, Texas ... ammunition, mobile hospital facilities (railroad cars and horse ambulances ...34 KB (5,124 words) - 04:52, 9 April 2024
- After the American Civil War, the New York Central railroad publicized ... the Falls since 1846. The Whirlpool Aero Car, built in 1916 from a design ...27 KB (4,264 words) - 09:42, 11 March 2023
- his own into trucks and a Duesenberg luxury car at the Daytona speedway. ... *1933: Citroën introduced the Rosalie, a passenger car with the world’s ...60 KB (9,401 words) - 14:31, 29 January 2024
- include aeronautical and nautical charts, railroad network maps, and hiking ... where possible on the same point. In-car satellite navigation systems ...20 KB (3,039 words) - 03:02, 6 November 2022
- a Mr. Woodruff, inventor of the sleeping car. The great distances transversed ... D.C. His boss at the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Thomas A. Scott ...35 KB (5,539 words) - 20:11, 26 July 2023
- is the world's standard gauge for railroad tracks. In 2002, Stephenson ... the task of building a 8-mile (13-km) railroad from Hetton colliery to ...23 KB (3,591 words) - 15:00, 21 May 2024
- Refrigerated railroad cars were introduced in the U.S. in the 1840s for the short-run transportation of dairy products. In 1867 J.B. Sutherland ...28 KB (4,251 words) - 19:11, 16 April 2023
- With the Red Army victory and coming of the railroad from 1929, the ... helicopter often is preferred to travel by car. Passenger traffic runs mainly ...15 KB (2,132 words) - 05:29, 4 August 2023
