Peter Dinklage plays Fin, a dwarf who inherits a cabinlike home beside a railroad track in Morris County, Newfoundland.
In the wonderful short One Week, Buster and his wife are dragging their new house across a railroad track (it's a long story).
Three kilometres of runway can transport people and goods around the world, while 3 kilometres of railroad track will only lead down the road.
This crisis begins, in classic chaos-theory fashion, with a trivial event along the 100-mile railroad track that moves most coal out of the Powder River Basin.
FORBES: America has coal to last 250 years. Why is there a shortage?
Mr. RANDALL: Now we just crossed the railroad track, and we are headed down into an area that used to be very festive on Saturday evenings.
The third rail, of course, is a metaphor for any issue so controversial that it is untouchable, like the electric rail often found in the center of a railroad track.
Union Pacific, which owns the Union Pacific Railroad, the largest U.S. railroad in track miles and total revenues, is one of the few industrial stocks trading well above their all-time highs, notes Leeb of the Complete Investor newsletter.
FORBES: With Economy Chugging Along, Rail Stocks Seen As Best Transport To Higher Gains
Metro-North President Howard Permut calls the work the wholesale reconstruction of a two-track electrified railroad.
But the connection from Hoboken down to the World Trade Center tunnels is still severed, as the railroad awaits delivery of a replacement track switch.
Sumwalt said the NTSB investigation to determine a likely cause will include routine testing of railroad employees for drugs and alcohol, testing of the track and rail signals and examinationof the video footage from the front of the train.
In her outstanding book on photographer Edward Muybridge, Rebecca Solnit recounts a death, during the first running of a passenger railroad in 1830, because a man could not step off the track in time from a long-seen locomotive going perhaps 30 miles an hour.
"Our crews will essentially be rebuilding 2, 000 feet of damaged track and overhead wires and signal system, " Metro-North Railroad President Howard Permut said in a statement.
The railroad borrowed heavy duty equipment from the MTA and NJ Transit to get some sections of track back in service.
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