At the time, the railroad beefed up ethics training, set up a special unit to act as a watchdog on disability claims and urged workers to report abuse.
The board's efforts failed to meet the government's expectations; in December 1917, Woodrow Wilson, the President of the United States, ordered the federal government to take control of the railroads, setting up a United States Railroad Administration (USRA) to run them.
The area became a playground; the railroad came up & terminated at the top of the falls.
We followed a footpath away from the projects, under railroad tracks, up to a scrubby clearing beside a junk yard of decaying freight containers.
His 1850s correspondence with Hargous, who sank a few hundred thousand dollars into the doomed railroad, turned up a year ago at a Rhode Island home belonging to the banker's descendants.
"I just live right there," I said, pointing, but instead of turning the car around she drove over the bridge, past the railroad tracks, up into the hills.
In 1902, William J. Wilgus, an engineer for the New York Central Railroad, came up with the concept of roofing over the yards around Grand Central and building hotels, offices and apartment houses.
So when it came time to restore the floor, parts of which had cracked, officials at the Metro-North Railroad called up the quarry in the Volunteer State that produced the original stone for the terminal, which opened in 1913.
