Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The yard (known as the "international yard" in the United States) was legally defined to be exactly 0.9144 meter in 1959 under an agreement in 1959 between Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. [51] In the UK, the provisions of the treaty were ratified by the Weights and Measures Act 1963. The ...
United States Coast Guard Yard, Curtis Bay, Baltimore, Maryland Union Iron Works , San Francisco, California (1905–1941) Vigor Industrial , Washington , Oregon , and Alaska
United States Navy shipyards belong (or belonged) to the U.S. Navy. For U.S. shipyards owned by private companies, ... Navy Yards of the United States Navy (2 C, 2 P)
2.2 United States. 2.2.1 Alabama. 2.2.2 Arkansas. 2.2.3 Arizona. 2.2.4 ... This article is a list of important rail yards in geographical order. These listed may be ...
United States Navy shipyards (1 C, 21 P) Shipyards on the National Register of Historic Places (1 C, 16 P) ... Victory Yard; W. Walsh-Kaiser Company; Washburn & Doughty;
Union Stock Yard Pens, Omaha, Nebraska (postcard image from 1930s or 1940s). Union stockyards in the United States were centralized urban livestock yards where multiple rail lines delivered animals from ranches and farms for slaughter and meat packing.
At the Oregon Shipbuilding Yard on the Columbia River, near Portland, the Victory ship SS Joseph N. Teal was built in ten days in fall 1942. The Oregon Shipbuilding Yards were responsible for 455 ships. Kaiser recruited from across the United States to work in his yards, hiring women and minorities.
Bailey Yard is the world's largest railroad classification yard. Employees sort, service and repair locomotives and cars headed all across North America. Owned and operated by the Union Pacific Railroad (UP), Bailey Yard is located in North Platte, Nebraska. The yard is named after former Union Pacific president Edd H. Bailey.