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Buffett now owns one of the largest railroads in the world, Burlington Northern, which he took private two years ago.

Some railroads are made of two or more tracks.

The worst aspect of the record was the exploitation of these immigrants by the railroads and industries.

The railroads made it possible to travel from one side of the country to the other in less than a week.

This treaty allowed for white settlements in the area, opened it up to railroads, and fixed the southern boundary of Kansas.

He had made a vast fortune in gold and diamonds. He had built railroads through the wilderness and become one of the century's great rulers.

Within a few days, sixty thousand railway workers were on strike. Twenty railroads were closed down.

In none of these cases did the supreme court deny the right of the states to regulate railroads and other corporations.

As there were no railroads in those days, people had to move from place to place in wagons.

With overt price-fixing cartels clearly illegal, the railroads turned to mergers as the way to eliminate competition between them.

The western railroads are still trying to catch up with their delivery delays that built up this crop year.

When Rand was writing in the 1950s, one of the pillars of American industrial might was the railroads.

Like the Germans, building the autobahn, or the Big Four building the railroads across the West.

New methods of transportation developed as steam ships came into regular service and railroads were built.

If you've ever played the board game Monopoly, you know that the goal is to collect real estate or control railroads.

Giving the railroads the freedom to run their business as they saw fit led to dramatic improvements.

The stake of this battle were nothing less than control of the most of the western transcontinental railroads.

Railroads justify rate discrimination against captive shippers on the grounds that in the long run it reduces everyone's cost .

The great American railroads responded, immediately employing non-union workers to replace three quarters of the empty positions.

They were far from home, hungry, and the railroads hired guards to keep hobos off the trains.

A cartoon from the New York Herald shows Theodore Roosevelt struggling with a wrestler representing the railroads, as Uncle Sam watches.

Tens of thousands of others are building railroads, power plants, airports, cement factories, apartment blocks, and official buildings.

The Federal Government extended some aid to roads, canals, rivers, and harbors, and made extensive land grants to western railroads.

Projects include railroads, highways, airports, other large-scale basic infrastructure and an upgrade of the urban electricity grids.

Within eleven years, there were railroads all over England pulling large amounts of supplies and cargo in short spaces of time.

San Antonio lies at the crossroads of major interstate highways and railroads serving both coasts, as well as the NAFTA corridor.

The railroads' solution to the demands of their customers was to join together in price-fixing cartels themselves.

"The Class 1 railroads have been building out to be more flexible for the customers, " says Levy.

Infrastructure: The infrastructure map shows the layout of the railroads and factories of a country.

Rationality of iron melt materials handing assignation and railroads layout can be evaluated by the simulation system.

The RFC's initial goal was to provide government-secured loans to financial institutions, railroads and farmers.

Investors were losing heavily in the stock market and railroads were unable to pay their debts.

Before the building of transcontinental railroads, California too relied on such ships for much of its trade.

In addition, railroads and roads would have to be improved so large amounts of wheat could be moved to large markets.

They were allowed to sell lossmaking lines to new short-haul railroads.

A comparative study of American and German railroads in the 19th century (with emphasis on the role of the state).

Yet railroads continue to borrow billions to acquire one another, with Wall Street cheering them on.

It limited the amount of money railroads could demand from people who needed to travel or transport their goods.

He found the origins of modern management hierarchies in the rapid growth of the American railroads.

But that still does not necessarily mean it is as transformative of an economy as, say, railroads were.

Engineers planned four railroads. But northern and southern leaders could not agree on which one to build first.

Billions more will have to be spent on upgrading existing railroads.

Another question linked slavery and the western territories. Where should the United States build its new railroads.

But those railroads will not open until at least 2012, and perhaps later.

Owners of the Sangu and especially the Kobu and Sobu railroads also profited handsomely as a result of the nationalization (see Table 23).

And just like the railroads a century before it's built with manual labor and sheer grit.

Another method for moving lumber to market was via crude railroads constructed from the very lumber they were designed to transport.

Railroads carry an important part of the total freight.

In our showcases we have already touched upon the theme of trains and railroads as the most vivid symbols of the industrial revolution.

British banks loaned the money needed to build factories, mines, and railroads worldwide.

As recently as 1995, the top four railroads accounted for under 70 percent of the total ton-miles moved by rails.

ensuring that railroads involved in passenger train operations can effectively and efficiently manage train emergencies.

Sharma argues that a document "written for an age before railroads, let alone before cable news" has led to the current crisis.

In recent years, railroads have been combining with each other, merging into super systems, causing heightened concerns about monopoly .

Copper and iron-ore mines were complicated and required huge infrastructure investments: railroads, roads, power plants, and smelters.

The nation with the best deep water ports or the most efficient railroads had a competitive advantage over others.

It was steel that built American cities, it was steel that built American railroads, it was steel that built American shipping.

By 1860 there were thousands of miles of railroads crossing the eastern mountain ranges and reaching westward to the Mississippi .

The rebating evil, they warned, had grown to such monstrous proportions that it threatened to bankrupt the railroads.

Compared to the railroads, the electrical industry was still young in the 1920s, but its rise had been spectacular.

"The American economy after the Civil War was driven by the expansion of the railroads, " writes historian Louis Menand.

All were ambitious businessmen with no prior experience with railroads, engineering or construction.

The mining with filling in goal provides advantages for the rational mining of coal under buildings, railroads and water bodies.

His operation makes alloys for steel used in building houses, factories and railroads.

Indeed, it could be argued the relative value of railroads will increase if oil should soar again, making BNSF a quasi-bet on energy prices.

James J. Hill, controlled the two northern transcontinental railroads, the Northern Pacific and the Great Northern, in 1901.

By 1900, steamships had shrunk the Atlantic even more, while railroads and the telegraph had eaten up the vastness of America's plains.

Like other immigrants, they had come to California to work on the railroads and prospect for gold.

Railroads were not allowed to acquire competing lines.

During the war, Congress made 158 million acres (63 million hectares) available to companies building railroads.

Do we really want railroads to be the arbiters of who wins and who loses in the marketplace ?

HSBC uses a broad definition for green projects, including public housing, rural infrastructure, railroads and ports.

Hence in the design of highways and railroads , curves are banked for the average speed of the traffic over them.

Does our spirit need or not a support when we construct countless skyscrapers and web-like highways and railroads?

He says the private railroads understand that, when the economy gets back in gear, they will have a bigger share of the growing market.

Railroads are determined to keep systems moving, but are running into problems with increased terminal dwell times.

However, managers did oppose certain major intrusions -- railroads, dams, and reservoirs.

Steel, lumber, and cement, for instance, are necessary for building almost every type of building in the game, including railroads .

The federal government relinquished control of the nation's railroads after settling a wage dispute.

Its industrial heartland, its growing network of railroads, its telegraph network, all bring victory to the North.

When will they start recruiting impoverished American laborers to go over there to build these railroads?

Federal and state grants will flow to the freight railroads to help them upgrade their lines for more and faster passenger trains.

Federal troops under Sherman cut off the railroads supplying Atlanta and burned the city; 1864.

Remember how the first Chinese came to the US - as indentured labor to work on railroads?

Workers tried to reconstruct destroyed railroads.

The freight railroads have learned to live with the limited Amtrak passenger services on their tracks.

The railroads laid the basis for the creation of the single largest market in world economy.

Even the railroads seem only scratched in with a penknife.

Railroads were built across the west. They brought wood for homes.

Eventually the railroads and, some time after that, the automobile would make that possible.

China's strained railroads have already become a bottleneck for the economy.

Moving inland means lower wages, but higher transportation costs on China's crowded highways and railroads.

Railroads in the United States mostly carry products instead of passengers.

Thepotential consequences of a collision or derailment for railroads operating above 125 mph are even greater.

prevent, destroy or control harmful organisms which cause danger to dikes and dams, railroads, airports, buildings and other places.

Railroads point out that shipping rates have dropped dramatically under the Staggers Act, especially when adjusted for inflation.

Served by two Class I Railroads, the Union Pacific (UP) and the Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF).

In railroads, treaties now allowed unlimited freight interchange.

One. If canal boats are supplanted by ' railroads , ' serious unemployment will result.

Humans' first burst of acceleration started around 1815 with railroads, steamships and industrialization.

From New Jersey, Westchester, Staten Island and Long Island by railroads, ferries , and subways.

They made braking safer and more precise and allowed railroads to operate at higher speeds, now that trains could be reliably stopped.

Working at Mr. Graham's fund, Graham-Newman Corp. , Mr. Buffett analyzed a portfolio with 21% to 36% of its assets in railroads.

In 1886, the Knights of Labor struck against the Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific railroads, owned by robber baron Jay Gould.

When the railroads came in, that necessitated more standardization of time so that railroad schedules could be published.

And China's roads, railroads, energy grids and healthcare systems are woefully inadequate.

Manufacturers used the newly built railroads to distribute their products over wide areas.

But so many railroads were built so quickly that fierce competition erupted among them and bankruptcies soon followed.

Chinese companies are already involved in the construction of railroads for two high-speed train links.

The harmonic and negative sequence currents caused by the traction load of electric railroads will disturb power system.

Historically you see that we got around 200 years ago by canals, and as that system disappeared, were replaced by railroads.

Railroads enjoy good operating leverage to an economic recovery.

(Buffett has said, 'I wish I had started buying railroads when Bill first got into them').

The influence of harmonics produced by high-speed electric railroads on grid is introduced.

An African American man named John Henry was the hero of former slaves and the people who built the railroads.

Railroads have been keeping fleets busy with little room for error.

I crossed the continent and joined together the seas with my great railroads .

the activity of designing and constructing and operating railroads.

It is obviously due to China's insistence that these high speed railroads would pass through Laos.

The coming of the railroads made canal shipping less important.

The coming of the railroads made canal shipping less important.

Do you think businesses like See's candy, or hard assets such as railroads are superior in a inflationary world?

We deployed in utilities and railroads because we cannot find enough business like See's.

By the same logic, the railroads created Chicago and the car did the same for Detroit and Los Angeles.

It all dates back to the heyday of railroads.

Several railroads traverse the district.

Networks-railroads, computers, or individuals speaking a particular language-exert a kind of magnetic pull.

Those rates can vary widely by route, type of freight being carried and whether there is competition between railroads.

These two arrows are an arc, an arc of commuter railroads and other infrastructure that link the West Bank and Gaza.

The other problem is expense. SuperfastSuper-fast trains require all new railroads and systems.

"The freight railroads feel they are under attack, " says Don Phillips, a rail expert in Virginia.

Railroads, Britain's gift to the world, shrank continents and slashed travel time.

Loans for big projects like highways and railroads are now harder to get.

A group of wealthy railroad owners had agreed to join their railroads into one.

There are fewer and fewer tribes after the building of the railroads.

Coarse gravel or crushed rock laid to form a bed for roads or railroads.

And now we're going to sit back andwatch China build newer airports and faster railroads?

1917-during World War One, the US government took over operation of the nation's railroads.

His grandfather's wealth, made in railroads, was lost during the war.

Coal mining companies recruited many Italians to work in the deep mines of West Virginia; others found work on railroads and farms.

Coal mining companies recruited many Italians to work in the deep mines of West Virginia; others found work on railroads and farms.

The red lines on the map represent(=stand for) newly-built railroads.

And faster railroads are needed to connect those cities.

My grandfather had made a fortune in railroads.

But with the development of railroads and with the Industrial Revolution, for the first time, people began seeking oil.

The railroads are still a significant mode of transport.

SuperfastSuper-fast trains require all new railroads and systems.

Some railroads once run by steam are now electrified .

The Supreme Court upheld the eight-hour work day for railroads.

Railroads were vital to the expansion of America.

Others even went as far as adding miniature railroads, merry-go-rounds, and mini-golf.

Railroads, tie yards and treating plants may face a similar scenario by the second quarter of 2010.

Asian nations have agreed to form a network of railroads that aims to connect 28 countries in the region to each other and Europe.

As incomes rise, China's passenger railroads will become by far the world's busiest.

While railroads still maintained their own trackbeds, in effect the government had financed truckers' right-of-way.

A severe snowstorm blocked up railroads.

In order to receive the benefits of railroads, they must cover one province in the state in which the factory is situated.

To do so, the state bought Western technology such as factory machines, railroads and telegraph lines.

By 1840 the city was rated the fourth port in the world; after the 1840s canals and railroads diverted produce eastward to New York City.

China is building roads and railroads and airports as fast as it can (perhaps too fast).

I am thinking this morning of the men in the mills and factories; of the men in the mines and on the railroads.

It started early on, even with the railroads.

Power suppliers and the operators of oil pipelines and railroads might want to start.

Another 352 locomotives are owned by local railroads and 604 operated by joint-venture railroads.

Railroads cross the country in every which way.

Until then, I'll use pepole who run the railroads and keep the telephones working.

Into the 1890s, an annual average of 50 railroads were still failing.

And we need to demine railroads to improve development as well.

The Government helped the railroads generously with money and land.

Thus Shenzhen became a central hub for railroads, highways, marine transportations and air transportations.

Proceeds from local bonds would go only to projects approved by Beijing, such as work on airports, power plants and railroads.

"Overall, rates have gone down for just about every commodity group, " said Tom White of the Association of American Railroads.

The brakes are used today not only on railroads, but for large trucks, buses and even amusement-park rides.

The intrusion of railroads brought tourists but also extended the reach of loggers.

As Morgan combined more and more industries and railroads after 1901 his power grew almost by geometric ratio.

The railroads will work in China, because the government will not allow unions to hold the public hostage to wage and benefit demands.

So are railroads, which enjoyed a 10. 5 percent rise in rates last year even in the teeth of the recession, according to the SoL report.

Railroads have been a politically explosive issue

"Railroads were in the news mainly when they were going bust" (Christian Science Monitor)

just as trucks and airplanesbroke the monopoly of the railroads,

Study of Relationship Between Railroads and Social Progress in Late Qing Dynasty

Habitats include areas along railroads and roadsides, cropland and abandoned fields, vacant lots, and

One young railway clerk from the Midwest has a vision of how the telegraph and railroads

They work as very skilled workers Those Chinese worked on the American railroads

To Enhance Survey Control and Improve Through Accuracy of Important Railroads and Belt Roads

Traffic Organization and Traffic Control by American Railroads

A Synthetic Technique of Settlement Control for Shield Underrun the Railroads

Administrative department in charge of railroads

When the persuading and the planning for the western railroads had finally been completed,

Electric signalling systems for railroads

Research on Routing of Trains between Parallel Railroads in the Corridor

PV power systems application and design for western railroads

Research on the Derailment of Empty Freight Cars on the Russian Railroads

the other 845 railroads kill an average of one-third of a man each;

Technology for Production of Rails for High-speed Railroads

The Historical Guide to North America Railroads

took over operation of the nation's railroads

Railroads can be built with Oil or Coal

Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;

Decision For Federal Control: Wilson, McAdoo, and the Railroads, 1917

27. Railroads see a growth opportunity. (WSJ)

We should ride the train for free we built the railroads

On Sun Yat-sen's Knowledge of the Modern World Railroads

Communications and Signal Division of the Association of American Railroads

The American Association of Railroads