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Stenton station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station at 529-599 Vernon Road between Ardleigh and Blakemore Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The station is in zone 2 on the Chestnut Hill East Line, on former Reading Railroad tracks, and is 8.6 track miles from Suburban Station. In 2013, this station saw 430 boardings and 124 alightings on an ...
The Niagara Scow View of the Toronto Power House with the scow in the background, 1922. The Niagara Scow (also called the Old Scow or Iron Scow) is the unofficial name of the wreck of a small scow that brought two men perilously close to plunging over the Horseshoe Falls, the largest of the Niagara Falls, in 1918. The wreck can still be seen ...
The 914th was one of three C-119 groups assigned to the 512th Troop Carrier Wing in 1963, the others being the 912th and 913th Troop Carrier Groups at Naval Air Station Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. The group trained for and participated in air transport of airborne forces , equipment and supplies with delivery by airdrop , extraction, and ...
Thousands of people have gone over Niagara Falls, either intentionally (as stunts or suicide attempts) or accidentally. The first recorded person to survive going over the falls was school teacher Annie Edson Taylor, who in 1901 successfully completed the stunt inside an oak barrel. In the following 124 years, thousands of people have been ...
HABS No. PA-6184, "Schuylkill River Villas", 18 data pages of historical context Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) No. PA-24, " Stenton, 4601 North 18th Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA ", 7 data pages
The Great Gorge Route was part of the "Niagara Gorge Belt Line". This service was jointly with the IRC "Canadian Scenic Route" on the Canadian side of the river from Niagara Falls, Ontario to Queenston. Crossings were made on the Honeymoon Bridge in Niagara Falls and the Queenston–Lewiston Bridge.
Niagara Falls, New York, the U.S. city adjacent to the falls; Niagara County, New York. Niagara Falls State Park, the oldest state park in the US; Niagara Escarpment AVA, New York wine region; Niagara, New York, a town; Fort Niagara, near Youngstown, New York; Niagara Frontier, a region south of Lakes Ontario and Erie; Buffalo–Niagara Falls ...
On August 25, 1858, the foreclosed Canandaigua and Niagara Falls RR was reorganized as the Niagara Bridge and Canandaigua Railroad, which was leased to the New York Central on September 1, 1858. It was regauged to 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in ( 1,435 mm ) standard gauge , depriving the Erie of a broad gauge connection to Niagara Falls.