Sentence examples for railroad owner from inspiring English sources

Former railyards are notoriously polluted, and the railroad owner had already removed more than 800,000 cubic yards of tainted earth from the property.

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., Fort Worth, the railroad owner, said it would spend $40 million to expand a cargo facility in Tennessee.

Like a railroad owner trying to find more trains to run on his rails, Pascarella is hustling up creative ways to use the Visa network.

Sitting unused, Grand Central Station's value as an architectural and engineering masterpiece was discounted by its railroad owner, who believed the value of the land for urban redevelopment to be quite substantial.

The Pennsylvania Railroad, owner of the Little Miami Railroad that had been constructed east of Lebanon in the 1840s, entered the negotiations in 1896 to protect its Cincinnati-area interests, and in March it (through the Pennsylvania Company) acquired a majority of the CL&N's stock.

They limped along through the 19th century until the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, when militiamen fraternized with the strikers rather than protect the railroad owners' property.

To gain an edge on their corporate rivals, railroad owners built expensive lines into drought-prone areas that had few settlers and little prospect of attracting more.

In the late 1800s, plantation owners William Thomas Eldridge and W.L. Dunovant reportedly paid the gratuity to railroad owners that earned the town its name.

Legal battles ensued between the State of Florida and the railroad owners about who owned the rights to sell reclaimed land in the Everglades.

In 1895, 169 railroads, owners of nearly 20percentt of the nation's tracks, were operated by bankruptcy receivers.

The derailment came just minutes before a town meeting in which the railroad's owner, Jon Delli Priscoli, was scheduled to address a public audience over concerns related to the expansion in recent years of the railroad's activity.