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April 12 – United States – A head-end collision of a work train and a through freight train occurred near Pineville, Kentucky killing two. [9] [10]May 26 - United States - “Electric cars racing for a switch while running in opposite directions, at the rate of 40 miles per hour (64 km/h), cost five lives in the afternoon by a terrific collision, in which over forty prominent people were ...
M-1 Gasoline-Electric Motor. Augwick Creek/Aughwick Creek railroad bridge (1986) The East Broad Top Railroad (EBT) is a 3 ft ( 914 mm) narrow gauge historic and heritage railroad headquartered in Rockhill Furnace, Pennsylvania . Operating from 1871 to 1956, it is one of the United States' oldest and best-preserved narrow-gauge railroads, and ...
Ten Mile Point is a neighbourhood in the District of Saanich in Victoria, British Columbia, and is the most easterly point on Vancouver Island. Ten Mile Point was so named because it was ten nautical miles (18.5 km (11.5 mi)) from what was at the time the headquarters of the Pacific Station of the Royal Navy (now CFB Esquimalt ).
The splendid fairywren ( Malurus splendens) is a passerine bird in the Australasian wren family, Maluridae. It is found across much of the Australian continent from central-western New South Wales and southwestern Queensland over to coastal Western Australia. It inhabits predominantly arid and semi-arid regions.
The stretch of track winds through the Des Moines River Valley and across a 156-foot (47.5 m) tall bridge spanning Bass Point Creek, a tributary of the Des Moines River. The line runs from Boone, through the old coal mining town of Fraser , and ends at the site of the former junction with the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway at Wolf.
Location. The Atchafalaya Basin Bridge, also known as the Louisiana Airborne Memorial Bridge, [ 1] is a pair of parallel bridges in the U.S. state of Louisiana between Baton Rouge and Lafayette which carries Interstate 10 over the Atchafalaya Basin. With a total length of 96,095 feet (29,290 m; 18 mi; 29 km), it is the third longest bridge in ...
The Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway is a 15 in ( 381 mm) minimum gauge heritage railway in Cumbria, England. The 7-mile (11.3 km) line runs from Ravenglass to Dalegarth Station near Boot in the valley of Eskdale, in the Lake District. At Ravenglass the line ends at Ravenglass railway station on the Cumbrian Coast Line .
In June 2011, NY Waterway started service to points along the East River. [193] On May 1, 2017, that route became part of the NYC Ferry 's East River route, which runs between Pier 11 / Wall Street in Manhattan's Financial District and the East 34th Street Ferry Landing in Murray Hill, Manhattan , with five intermediate stops in Brooklyn and ...