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    notable for his dramatic escapes from the law in the style of Robin Hood. He acquired the name Railroad Bill. Although there was a price on his head for some...
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  • Rules Advisory Committee (NORAC) is a body of railroads that establish a set of operating rules for railroads in North America. The NORAC rulebook is...
    6 KB (680 words) - 22:53, 24 July 2024
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    Henry Louis Wallace (category American murderers of children)
    death when she asked for payment for her services, then dropped her body by railroad tracks. She was found a few days later. In June 1992, Wallace raped...
    16 KB (1,867 words) - 21:49, 29 October 2024
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    Christi Craddick (category Members of the Railroad Commission of Texas)
    an American politician. She is one of three members of the Railroad Commission of Texas, the elected regulatory body over oil, natural gas, utilities,...
    16 KB (1,307 words) - 11:52, 31 October 2024
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    bodies placed on railroad tracks on August 23, 1987. At the time, the boys' deaths were controversially ruled accidental, but after Kevin Ives' body was...
    49 KB (4,222 words) - 22:40, 31 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pennsylvania Railroad class GG1
    The Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 is a class of streamlined electric locomotives built for the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR), in the northeastern United States...
    33 KB (3,763 words) - 19:31, 30 October 2024
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    The Union Pacific Railroad (reporting marks UP, UPP, UPY) is a Class I freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over 32,200 miles (51...
    87 KB (8,083 words) - 08:57, 1 September 2024
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    The Underground Railroad was used by freedom seekers from slavery in the United States and was generally an organized network of secret routes and safe...
    157 KB (16,292 words) - 20:08, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Railroad worm
    their bodies, as the reaction substrate, called luciferin, is the same. The "railroad worm" name arises because these glowing spots along the body resemble...
    3 KB (321 words) - 18:32, 16 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rail transportation in the United States
    States consists primarily of freight shipments along a well integrated network of standard gauge private freight railroads that also extend into Canada...
    66 KB (7,810 words) - 00:43, 4 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Interstate Commerce Act of 1887
    The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 is a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic...
    12 KB (1,339 words) - 14:10, 9 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ángel Maturino Reséndiz
    The Railroad Killer, was a Mexican serial killer suspected in as many as 23 murders across the United States and Mexico during the 1990s, some of which...
    24 KB (1,763 words) - 05:23, 20 September 2024
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    transcontinental railroad (known originally as the "Pacific Railroad" and later as the "Overland Route") was a 1,911-mile (3,075 km) continuous railroad line built...
    144 KB (18,839 words) - 23:17, 29 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Grand Funk Railroad
    Grand Funk Railroad (often shortened to Grand Funk) is an American rock band formed in Flint, Michigan, in 1969 by Mark Farner (vocals, guitar, keyboards...
    32 KB (3,215 words) - 11:28, 25 October 2024
  • Railroad police or railway police are people responsible for the protection of railroad (or railway) properties, facilities, revenue, equipment (train...
    28 KB (3,221 words) - 00:22, 16 October 2024
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    National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak (/ˈæmtræk/; reporting marks AMTK, AMTZ), is the national passenger railroad company of the...
    148 KB (14,130 words) - 18:35, 31 October 2024
  • Pennsylvania Railroad (reporting mark PRR), legal name The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, also known as the "Pennsy", was an American Class I railroad that was...
    106 KB (11,097 words) - 23:34, 29 October 2024
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    company's primary business was the production of railroad car seats for the greatly expanding American railroad companies. Hale, Kilburn, & Co. was organized...
    4 KB (327 words) - 02:42, 30 March 2021
  • display, or sold to other railroads. cars with light grey have been either put on display, or sold to other railroads. Car bodies with light grey have been...
    467 KB (34,902 words) - 04:34, 5 November 2024
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    optimise the carriage of pallets, wide bodies are often scaled to the maximum width allowed for standard road trucks and railroad cars and to a different...
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