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Yardsellr was a San Francisco-based person-to-person online marketplace founded by former eBay executives in October 2009. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was shut down on February 4, 2013 to concentrate more on e-commerce at the short-lived social commerce site CompoundM.
The promenade plantée ("walk with trees") (4.5 km) in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France; built on the former railway line between Bastille area and the eastern suburbs of Paris (1859 - 1969) Coulée verte (" green belt ") (29 km), on the former railway lines from Amiens and Beauvais (43 km), opened for the traffic between 1874 and 1972 ...
A railway track (CwthE and UIC terminology) or railroad track (NAmE), also known as permanent way (CwthE) [1] or "P Way" (BrE [2] and Indian English), is the structure on a railway or railroad consisting of the rails, fasteners, sleepers (railroad ties in American English) and ballast (or slab track), plus the underlying subgrade.
East Gippsland Rail Trail signage in Victoria, Australia, indicating the shared trail usage. A rail trail is a shared-use path on a railway right of way. Rail trails are typically constructed after a railway has been abandoned and the track has been removed but may also share the right of way with active railways, light rail, or streetcars (rails with trails), or with disused track.
On July 14, 2022, YouTube made a special playlist and video celebrating the 317 music videos to have hit 1 billion views and joined the "Billion Views Club". [ 65 ] [ 66 ] On April 1, 2024, the communications app Discord incorporated a short trailer video into their in-app April Fools' Day prank regarding loot boxes .
A passenger train running down the centre of Ellen Street, Port Pirie in 1940 Mossman, a narrow-gauge sugar-cane railway runs down Mill Street; Nambour, the Moreton Central Sugar Mill Cane Tramway ran down Mill Street, was also street running on a bridge at Bli Bli, closed 2003 [7] The rails in the street remained in place and a tourist tram is planned on it.
3-wheeled handcar or velocipede on a railroad track Preserved railroad velocipede on exhibit at the Toronto Railway Historical Association. A handcar (also known as a pump trolley, pump car, rail push trolley, push-trolley, jigger, Kalamazoo, [1] velocipede, or draisine) is a railroad car powered by its passengers, or by people pushing the car from behind.
Early rails were made of wood, cast iron or wrought iron. All modern rails are hot rolled steel with a cross section approximate to an I-beam, but asymmetric about a horizontal axis (however see grooved rail below). The head is profiled to resist wear and to give a good ride, and the foot profiled to suit the fixing system.