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Ramsey finished the widening of Main Street from Finch Plaza to the tracks of the North Jersey Rapid Transit line in November. However, any plans to widen from Finch Plaza to the Main Street grade crossing would be held off until Spring 1928 due to the plans to widen it 20 feet (6.1 m) rather than the 6 feet (1.8 m) east of Finch Plaza. [14]
The Hartford and Eastern pursued tourist business with some success. Its gas cars took visitors to the snows of "Glacier Camp" to play in the summer snows, and for "unexcelled Sunday outings and fishing trips". A round-trip cost $1.50 with kids aged 5 to 12 going for half price.
A push pole A pole about 12 feet (366 cm) long and having a diameter of 5 inches (127 mm) and used in the United States between 1870 and the mid-1960s to push a freight car onto or off a siding or onto another track by being placed between a locomotive (on an adjacent track) and the freight car.
The Main Line also refers to the affluent Philadelphia suburbs along the line of the same name. Prior to the late 1980s, all commuter rail operations went from Suburban Station to Paoli, the westernmost census designated place along the Main Line. Because of this earlier operation, local residents called the R5 "the Paoli Local".
Examples on the UK national network are the North Devon Line, where the system was brought into use on 1 December 1987, the Heart of Wales Line (commissioned in 1986 [14]), the Derwent Valley Line in Derbyshire and the Liskeard to Looe line in Cornwall. On the latter, the train guard not only operates the Tyer's No.9 electric token instrument ...
The Short Line Subdivision is a railroad line owned by CSX Transportation in the U.S. state of Ohio. The line runs from a point northeast of downtown Cleveland south and southwest to Berea [1] along a former New York Central Railroad line. At its east end, the Short Line Subdivision merges with the Cleveland Terminal Subdivision towards Buffalo ...
The Belmont Plane ran from the Schuylkill River for 2,805 feet (855 m), rising 1 foot (0.3 m) per 15 feet (4.6 m) for a total rise of 187 feet (57 m). Steam-driven cables dragged the railway cars to the top of Belmont Hill.
[1]: 12.3-1 Most of the stations have island platforms 20–22.5 feet (6.1–6.9 m) wide and 225 feet (69 m) long – enough to fit three current LRVs or two future Type 10 LRVs – with provision to extend them to 300 feet (91 m) in the future. The platform at Lechmere is 32–35 feet (9.8–10.7 m) wide and 355 feet (108 m) long – enough to ...