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North America's Building Trades Unions is a labor federation of 14 North American unions in the building trade. [4] Affiliates are the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), International Brotherhood of Teamsters (Teamsters), International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers (BAC), International Union of Elevator Constructors (IUEC), International Union of Painters ...
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) is a labor union that represents approximately 820,000 workers and retirees [1] in the electrical industry in the United States, Canada, [3] Guam, [4] [5] Panama, [6] Puerto Rico, [7] and the US Virgin Islands; [7] in particular electricians, or inside wiremen, in the construction industry and lineworkers and other employees of public ...
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.
The West Side Yard (officially the John D. Caemmerer West Side Yard) is a rail yard of 30 tracks owned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on the west side of Manhattan in New York City. Used to store commuter rail trains operated by the subsidiary Long Island Rail Road , the 26.17-acre (10.59 ha) yard sits between West 30th Street ...
New York State Route 66 (NY 66) is a state highway in the Capital District of New York in the United States. The route begins at an intersection with US 9 and NY 23B in the Columbia County city of Hudson and ends at a junction with NY 2 in the Rensselaer County city of Troy .
Highland Falls Station in Highland Falls, New York, is a former West Shore Railroad train station built in the 1880s. It was later used by the New York Central Railroad.Since the mid-20th century it has been used as a residence; the tracks are still used as a CSX freight line.
In 1895, the Canadian Pacific Railway and the New York Central Railroad bought the TH&B. In 1911, the T H and B was the first railway in North America to install the Absolute Permissive Block Signalling for single operation track allowing safe and efficient travel avoiding head-on and rear end collisions by holding one train back on the siding.
A New York, Ontario and Western Railway passenger train at Weehawken Terminal in Weehawken, New Jersey Engine 201 crossing Cadosia Trestle in Hancock, New York. In 1866, the New York and Oswego Midland Railroad was chartered under the direction of Dewitt C. Littlejohn, who envisioned a railroad serving a direct connection from the docks opposite New York City to Lake Ontario at Oswego.