Search results for "Railroad car" - New World Encyclopedia
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- ran in 1830, on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad to Ellicots Mill, Maryland ... completion of the first transcontinental railroad across America. ...16 KB (2,477 words) - 00:38, 2 May 2023
- Vanderbilt's involvement with early railroad development led ... became a director of the New York and Harlem Railroad. ===New York ...13 KB (1,982 words) - 03:32, 8 January 2024
- #039;s Committee to Test the Separate Car Act, dedicated to the repeal ... On June 7, 1892, Plessy boarded a car of the East Louisiana Railroad ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 08:04, 24 November 2022
- gyrocompass. He also developed an electric car and a powerful arc light. ... of windmills, construction of a railroad tricycle that could outrun ...9 KB (1,284 words) - 17:16, 13 February 2024
- the drive wheels of an accelerating car experience a frictional force ... object "rolls" on another (like a car's wheels on the ground ...12 KB (1,929 words) - 11:00, 11 April 2024
- In 1925 he produced House by the Railroad, a classic work that marks ... filmmakers. For example, House by the Railroad is said to have heavily ...15 KB (2,255 words) - 18:24, 12 February 2024
- the Chesapeake, Ohio & South Western Railroad Company told her to give ... I refused, saying that the forward car [closest to the locomotive ...15 KB (2,312 words) - 15:32, 12 February 2024
- operates on a single rail similar to the railroad type of rail. The Wuppertal ... several beams or even simulating a railroad double-crossover. ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 21:10, 9 November 2022
- his songs about trains and life on the railroad. A highly original lyricist ... Rodgers, a foreman on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, who had settled with a ...23 KB (3,146 words) - 13:11, 1 August 2022
- meaning the failure of the brakes on one car does not prevent the brakes ... pulling six carriages (plus a dynamometer car) reached 126 miles per hour ...22 KB (3,331 words) - 07:49, 9 March 2023
- [[Image:1917 Dodge Brothers touring car.JPG|thumb|250 px|1917 Dodge ... to be antique models of cars. An antique car is generally defined as a ...16 KB (2,423 words) - 06:37, 31 July 2023
- this custom. Gradually, the samovar in a railroad car was replaced by the boiler of potable water known as титан (titan) in the Soviet Union ...16 KB (2,540 words) - 01:15, 21 April 2023
- to economic development include the CAR's landlocked position ... and settled in most of the territory of the CAR. During the same period, a ...29 KB (4,266 words) - 23:52, 3 December 2023
- the summer of 1894. This was a nationwide railroad strike that pitted the American ... the ARU, an organization of unskilled railroad workers, in 1893. Debs brought ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 05:32, 4 March 2023
- The part of the first North American transcontinental railroad that ... of Las Vegas, and takes about 5 hours by car from downtown Las Vegas. ...18 KB (2,728 words) - 02:26, 19 December 2022
- West with an ambitious series of over-sea railroad trestles. ... Highway (U.S. Highway 1) replaced the railroad as the main transportation ...27 KB (4,181 words) - 17:42, 28 March 2024
- to the small Bolivian port of Guaqui, where a railroad connects it with La Paz, capital of Bolivia. The world's second-highest railroad runs from ...14 KB (2,293 words) - 05:37, 4 March 2023
- #039;s brother Clarence suggested the railroad car in 1925. It was custom ... not at him he told John, Jr. to get in his car and then drove him to the ...21 KB (3,265 words) - 17:45, 29 September 2023
- of them knew, and could lure to the rented car. Bobby Franks was in the wrong ... a neighbor of Loeb's, into a rented car. As each blamed the other ...16 KB (2,623 words) - 21:57, 25 October 2022
- Eugene Debbs the Socialist leader of the railroad union. The World also featured ... century until 1961, the Pennsylvania Railroad operated a parlor-car express ...15 KB (2,430 words) - 16:12, 11 November 2022
