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On August 30, 1994, No. 587 along with a tool car in tow, deadheaded to the Monticello Railway Museum (MRM) to undergo needed repair work. The restoration cost $250,000 and took 3 years to complete. [26] Following the completion of the repair work, No. 587 made a few runs on the MRM to benefit the restoration of Southern Railway 401, in May ...
Wright State's Boonshoft School of Medicine is the Dayton area's only medical school and is a leader in biomedical research. [179] Dayton is also home to Sinclair Community College, the largest community college at a single location in Ohio [180] and one of the nation's largest community colleges. [181]
In the 1880s, Erastus Wiman planned a system of rail lines encircling the island using a portion of the existing rail line, and organized the Staten Island Rapid Transit Railroad in 1880, in cooperation with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O), which wanted an entry into New York. B&O gained a majority stake in the line in 1885, and by 1890 new ...
Columbus (/ k ə ˈ l ʌ m b ə s /, kə-LUM-bəs) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Ohio.With a 2020 census population of 905,748, [10] it is the 14th-most populous city in the U.S., the second-most populous city in the Midwest (after Chicago), and the third-most populous U.S. state capital (after Phoenix, Arizona, and Austin, Texas).
Buffalo is a city in the U.S. state of New York and the county seat of Erie County.It lies in Western New York at the eastern end of Lake Erie, at the head of the Niagara River on the Canadian border.
The WFC announced details of the fair's master plan in October 1936, which called for an exposition themed to "the world of tomorrow". [4] The World's Fair officially opened on April 30, 1939, [5] and its first season ended on October 31, 1939. [6] The fair reopened for a second and final season on May 11, 1940, [7] closing on October 27, 1940. [8]
President Lincoln lying in state at New York's City Hall on April 24, 1865 – Jeremiah Gurney Jeremiah Gurney (1812–1895) was born in Coeymans, New York. [ 71 ] Gurney, then a jeweler in Saratoga, N.Y. became one of the first, if not the first student in America to learn the "new art" of daguerreian photography.