Sentence examples for railroad connection from inspiring English sources

The Atlantic and Pacific was chartered in 1866 to build a railroad connection westward from Springfield, Missouri, connecting Albuquerque, New Mexico, then along the 35th parallel to the Colorado River.

In 1871 Prime Minister John A. Macdonald offered British Columbia a railroad connection with the Canadian network within 10 years.

He referred to an old local newspaper clipping that promised a new railroad connection to Juneau, with the financing already lined up.

The Hicks Family Nearby, in Jericho, Long Island, is the Maine Maid Inn, a restaurant believed to have an Underground Railroad connection.

The plan, devised by a quinine-smuggling Union scout and an astronomer turned general, was to steal a locomotive and drive it to Chattanooga, capturing a key railroad connection whose loss would cut the Confederacy in half.

With Lhasa, Tibet's capital, overwhelmed with tourists (a new railroad connection is expected to bring even more), Tibetan culture and religion have been turned into more commodities, to be peddled in the form of cheap souvenirs manufactured and sold largely by Chinese immigrants.

The city is at a junction of air routes and has railroad connections with São Paulo and with Santa Cruz, Bolivia.

With railroad connections and improved harbour facilities, Bellingham's timber-pulp operations, fish canneries, and pleasure-boat building industries developed.

When railroad connections were established southward to Edmonton, Alta., these farms were able to produce grain, livestock, and legume seed for external markets.

The French town could count on good highway and railroad connections as well as a network of hotels in nearby ski resorts.

After the war, many Northern businessmen arrived, and built the city as a coal, timber and textile center with now-completed railroad connections through the mountains and to the rest of the country.