Rail tracks

The Vander Light This urban legend is said to have taken place in the 1800s, and is about the ghost of Arthur Matthews. Arthur Mathews was a Ticketmaster for the small train station located in Vander, North Carolina. The legend states that one rainy night the scheduled train was late and Arthur went outside on the platform with his lantern to see if he could see the train approaching. He slipped on the wet platform and fell onto the tracks hitting his head on a rail and knocking him out cold. As the train approached the station, the conductor saw a light in the middle of the tracks. When the conductor realized it was a lantern and a person he tried to stop the train, but unfortunately, couldn’t in time. When the train finally came to…

of lesson here, or is it more of a single frame caught during a story that has not yet reached its moral? We have two sides of this story, told by each of the characters. The young man seems excited and almost oblivious to his father’s suffering. The old man also can’t seem to figure out what to say, distant in his eyes as if lost in thought. Both seem to have difficulty communicating in the current situation. The old man might not speak to his son, worried he might burst into tears or say…

Led by the legendary Mack Queens, we dominated. Millions of bucks poured in daily. My job is a job that I know my mother would hate, but I bring in the good dough. The Core Four is the most successful business in the subways of New York City. We were just another group in the abandoned subway station, A6. We slept, we ate, we sold; all in that little station. The walls and floors were solid cement, converted in small pebbles from the old train tracks. The lights were shut off by the city, so we…

The advantages of the railroad were due to the demand for faster and more convenient transportation. They created more direct routes, greater speed and safety, dependable schedules, year-round service, and more space to travel. They connected many cities together and went about 50 miles an hour, which would take a whole day on horseback or stagecoach. It carried cattle, fruit, and goods it had never previously been carried. The Railroad Empire grew at the end of the Civil War. It expanded from…

Network Rail is the owner and the infrastructure leader of most of the rail network in England, Scotland, and Wales. The company took over the responsibilities of railway systems from previous owners who were Railtrack in 2002. The company deals in providing rail network all over Britain. The responsibilities of Network Rail comprises of railway tracks, signals, overhead wires, tunnels, bridges, level crossing and most stations. The management makes certain to provide the country with the right…

Many of these rails were owned by large men because the rail lines were bankrupted and a lot cheaper therefore you see the fast building of rail lines under these owners. Because of this some of the owners became very wealthy. One was Cornelius Vanderbilt, and he gains and becomes one of the richest men in America. These rails would end up making him expand money, which is money that could be used as capital and be put into investments. These rail lines would help expand consumption, and help…

To refute the claim that the Strike targeted railroad companies for purely thematic reasons, such as their embodiment of the Industrial Age, David Stowell focuses on the site of the strike activities. He claims that, had the perpetrators of the Great Strike actually vilified the railroads in such a way, then they would not have limited their activities to the deadliest and most problematic of railway crossings in city streets. Stowell uses Syracuse, NY to prove this theory. Very little rail…

1820 and began to immediately impact society. The “golden age” of railroad in America was from the 1880’s to the 1920’s; during this time the railroad would see its network double once in the 1880’s to 100,000 miles of rail and then double again to nearly 254,000 miles in 1916 (Encyclopedia.com, 2003). The…

experts face on a regular basis. The shipping industries, which include truck, rail, air, and sea transport face many challenges. Some of those challenges are industry specific; while others are challenges faced by all modes of transport. The most common challenges are those related to costs of fuel, limitations in infrastructure, and those related to acquisition of equipment and technology. Each mode of transport may face challenges in each of these areas, though some will be able to …

We built our house only few steps away from it. The surroundings of our house are peaceful and quite. The trees are swing softly through the breeze and the birds are hunting for food for its children. Yet, the least of perfection is that noise when the train passes through the track every night. I can feel my bed is shaking along with the ground. There is no track or sidewalk that allow people to walk. The only path we have is created by footsteps under the track. There were no protections or…