The foot rail along the bar is a steel streetcar track that was made in 1973 at the former Bethlehem Steel plant, located at nearby Pier 70.

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Mr Harbron, a locomotive driver from Wellow in Nottinghamshire, was unloading 40 steel pipes from a rail car on 24 July 2009 when they rolled on him.

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Big black bags holding 250 pounds of dirty coveralls and uniforms are dumped from a rail system overhead into 450-pound steel washers big enough to scrub a small rhino.

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Lord Steel says the new Borders rail plan is very similar to the one he proposed in the 1960s and it would have been much cheaper if they had not removed the track.

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The NTSB would not clarify Friday whether the April repair to the rail involved the mending or the replacement of the cracked steel joint bar.

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Lord Steel, who still lives in the area, also hopes the rail line will improve tourism and thinks Tweedbank station should be renamed Abbotsford to mark its proximity to the former home of Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott.

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This includes machinery and equipment to build factories and steel mills, but also a transportation infrastructure that includes bridges, roads, airports and rail systems.

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Yet the car's body is 25% stiffer than its predecessor because key parts of the frame--like the center post that supports the car body during side collisions and the roof side rail that connects the sides of the roof--are made of ultra-high-strength steel created through a process called hot stamping.

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Rail freight currently accounts for only 6% of all freight, mainly bulk coal, aggregates, waste and steel.

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