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The New York Central Railroad (reporting mark NYC) was a railroad primarily operating in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The railroad primarily connected greater New York and Boston in the east with Chicago and St. Louis in the Midwest, along with the intermediate cities of Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit, Rochester and Syracuse.
Clark Reservation State Park is a state park in Onondaga County, New York. The park is in Jamesville, NY, in the Town of DeWitt, south of Syracuse. It was the site of a large waterfall formed by melting glacial ice at the end of the last Ice Age; the plunge basin at the base of the old falls is now a small lake. James Macfarlane described the ...
Infrared remote control for the analog SLR camera Canon EOS 100 from 1991. Remote controls are used in photography, in particular to take long-exposure shots. Many action cameras such as the GoPros [45] as well as standard DSLRs including Sony's Alpha series [46] incorporate Wi-Fi based remote control systems. These can often be accessed and ...
Radio control was further developed during World War II, primarily by the Germans who used it in a number of missile projects. Their main effort was the development of radio-controlled missiles and glide bombs for use against shipping, a target otherwise both difficult and dangerous to attack.
Its first installation in 1927 was on a 40-mile stretch of the New York Central Railroad between Stanley, Toledo and Berwick, Ohio, with the CTC control machine located at Fostoria, Ohio. [1] CTC was designed to enable the train dispatcher to control train movements directly, bypassing local operators and eliminating written train orders.
Aug. 18—Glacier National Park officials are asking for public comments on its pilot vehicle reservation system amid renewed scrutiny of the program in recent months. Comments and concerns will ...
The Rochester Railway Company operated a streetcar transit system throughout the city of Rochester from 1890 until its acquisition by Rochester Transit Corp. in 1938. Formed by a group of Pittsburgh investors, the Rochester Railway Company purchased the Rochester City & Brighton Railroad in 1890, followed by a lease of the Rochester Electric Railway in 1894.
Nov. 7—A funding bill containing Congressman Ryan Zinke's proposal to kill the Glacier National Park pilot vehicle reservation system passed the House last week, but may not get much further. H ...