Sentence examples for railroad traffic from inspiring English sources

Today, interstate pipeline and some interstate railroad traffic is regulated, as is intrastate motor carriage in most states.

The lack of capacity for freight railroad traffic is one big reason I-95 has gotten so congested.

A surge in railroad traffic after Conrail was bought by the CSX Corporation in June 1999 has caused increased congestion.

Although railroad traffic control was one of the earliest applications of the telegraph, it immediately became a vital tool for the transmission of news around the country.

In the US most of the railroad traffic is handled by private freight lines that also often own the tracks they run on.

In a 10-mile corridor stretching between Floral Park and Hicksville, the Long Island Rail Road plans to lay a third track as a passing lane for trains caught in railroad traffic jams.

Extension of computer processing to the real-time data on train movement generated from track circuitry has further benefited control of major railroads' traffic.

A one-piece molded-glass Fresnel lens is convenient for spotlights, floodlights, railroad and traffic signals, and decorative lights in buildings.

Electronics have greatly widened the scope for precise but at the same time labour-saving control of a busy railroad's traffic by making it possible to oversee extensive areas from one signaling or dispatching centre.

The 1954 revision, however, called for the stop sign to be red with white letters, in step with the color-coding system developed for the railroad and traffic signals.

Timetabling, track and locomotive scheduling, empty car distribution and yard control belong to the operational decisions in railroad freight traffic.