And on July 8, 1854, the first railroad car reached Hyannis, prompting major changes--including increased tourism and trade.
He owned a private railroad car and Paris and New York houses.
Vice President Dick Cheney, after accepting his party's renomination, gave a nod to the pulling-up-by-the-bootstraps topic when he mentioned that his grandparents had lived in a railroad car.
Brown banquettes upholstered in what the French euphemistically call moleskin but North Americans know as leatherette line both walls of the long, narrow railroad-car-like dining room, and there's a little bar just inside the front door where your bill is tallied and taxis are called.
Over the past few decades, it has lost its Baptist church, grocery store, railroad depot, parking meters, four car dealerships, ten of its dozen bars, and crucially all but one of its deep mines.
The Waterbury rail line is the smallest branch on the railroad, with a locomotive and two-car train that serves several hundred commuters a day, Anders said.
Starting with the Gold Rush of 1849, California has been the destination of choice for Americans, with migrants coming originally in wagon trains over thousands of miles, then by railroad, by plane, and finally by car over interstate highways.
Yet passenger-on-passenger policing is just what can happen as the quiet-car concept continues to expand to more railroad lines.
Quiet-car "vigilantes, " as some railroad workers call the self-styled enforcers, step in.
This car, fittingly, found its way to Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney , descendent of both oil and railroad tycoons, and needless to say, someone to whom the Great Depression wasn't a significant deterrent to the enjoyment of the good life.
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