| 单词 | trunk line |
| 例句 | Or the underground railroad could help you, with its secret trunk lines and mysterious routes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z For example, imagine a long-distance trunk line between New York and Los Angeles; this is a bidirectional trunk, so it can be used for calls in either direction. From “phreaks” to Apple: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak’s “eureka!” moment 2013-02-16T14:00:00Z Stationmasters along that part of Greece’s main trunk line communicate with each other and with train drivers via two-way radios, and the switches are operated manually. Stationmaster charged in Greece train crash that killed 57 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z “Opening up the trunk lines and putting all that in, it’s not what people care about or want to see.” How the brother of a 9/11 firefighter stepped in to help homeless veterans in L.A. 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z Department of Water and Power has also installed more earthquake-resistant mainline and trunk line pipes in recent years, intended to keep hospitals and other critical sites operating after a quake. Major California earthquake would knock out cell service, communications, study finds 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z This cavity works well to get a large duct trunk line from one level to the next. Pro tips for hiding pipes and ducts in your walls 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z She added that there are plans to add even more trunk lines. Glitches and delays bedevil unemployment agency as its chief points to progress 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z “Now it’s upon us to get homes tied into the major trunk line,” he said. Officials mark completion of Navajo water treatment plant 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z Traditional ISPs run copper or fiber-optic lines into each housing unit from a trunk line, which customers then connect to a modem and wireless router to get Wi-Fi in their homes. Tech companies step up to bring free Wi-Fi to L.A. public housing residents 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z The Silver Line in Virginia is underused compared with the trunk lines running through downtown. Opinion | Transit needs to be part of the rebuilt American Legion Bridge 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z To simplify the color system, Tauranac and his team decided to incorporate something called “trunk lines.” The colorful history of the New York City subway map revealed 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z Military observation points for cyberwar will include major internet trunk lines. Kim Jong-un on Donald Trump summit 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Alaska’s 1,400-mile portion of the international project includes a land trunk line between Fairbanks and the Prudhoe Bay oil fields that went live in the spring. Taken for granted elsewhere, high-speed internet to bring big change to remote Alaska 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z Larger communities, Snyder said, already receive more funding for “equivalent major mileage” of state trunk lines within their boundaries. Snyder wants ‘wholesale revisions’ to road-funding formula 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z Last month, Shell declared a force majeure, which excuses a company from contractual agreements because events beyond its control, on exports of high grade crude oil after an attack on one of its trunk lines. The Niger Delta Avengers: Nigeria's newest militants - BBC News 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z Gravity alone carries wastewater to a nearby trunk line, said Russell Grayson, the Bend city engineer. Northeast Bend becoming a brewery district 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z The ship is also part of a Russian underwater reconnaissance program to identify undersea communications trunk lines and nodes. U.S. shadows Russian ship near nuke submarine bases 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z Like a utility trunk line, it is a bundle of thin strands that attach to an array of facial muscles. The Last Time I Smiled 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z On this date in 1936, the announcement was made that The Associated Press trunk line would establish a mainline office in Phoenix. Today in Arizona History 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z “The 96-inch sewer is only the trunk line, the main artery. We don’t have the veins in yet.” Storm sewer project 1st step in Muncie overflow plan 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z The cause of the water-main break, which occurred at the juncture of two trunk lines running underneath Sunset, is under investigation. UCLA flood: More than 300 damaged cars can be picked up Tuesday 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z “The trunk line repair is expected to continue through late Friday or early Saturday, after which the backfilling and street repair phase will begin,” the DWP said in a statement. UCLA staffer after retrieving car from flood: 'Yes! My car! Yes!' 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Workers off-site were fashioning a Y-shaped connector to replace the section that burst where two trunk lines merge. Cars removed from flooded UCLA garages 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Scottish nationalism is more of a mainstream political concern than during the industrial revolution, when the first trunk line - Robert Stephenson's Euston to Birmingham - was created and played a key role in trade and commerce. The train track that is the backbone of Britain 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z It also calls for new large CO2 "trunk lines" that connect one or more large projects to reduce costs. Fossil Fuel Power Plants Still Not Capturing CO2 Emissions 2013-10-10T19:45:20.840Z Alcatel-Lucent is likely to sell its submarine optical cable business, the undersea intercontinental trunk lines that are part of the backbone of the global Internet and phone system, Mr. Peterc said. Alcatel-Lucent Unveils Plan to Cut Costs 2013-06-19T10:53:33Z Armed gangs also tamper with pipelines to steal crude and Shell's Nembe Creek trunk line has been subject to numerous spills in recent years, many due to sabotage. Shell Nigeria says leak contained, locals report oil slick 2012-08-17T13:30:24Z Sometimes it was called the Nickel Plate, although that name nowadays is generally reserved for the brisk trunk line—officially the New York, Chicago & St. Louis—that operates from Buffalo, through Cleveland to Chicago. The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg RailRoad 2012-03-02T03:00:07.920Z Shipments from Chhattisgarh and Orissa, among the nation’s biggest coal-producing states, for instance, mainly use a single trunk line that also handles passenger services. Rail Bottlenecks Thwart India Efforts to End Blackouts: Freight 2012-02-02T03:19:26Z They're coming from southward, and if they'd left the trunk line soon after the Vancouver train came in they would get here about now. A Prairie Courtship 2012-02-01T03:00:12.830Z Similarly, Queenstown was a much better location for destroyers sent to meet convoys bound for ports in the Irish Sea over the northern "trunk line." The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z Hanover is intersected by important trunk lines of railway; notably the lines from Berlin to Cologne, from Hamburg to Frankfort-on-Main, from Hamburg to Bremen and Cologne, and from Berlin to Amsterdam. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z The railway outlet for the city consists of a short branch of the Mexican Central, which joins the trunk line at Silao. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z It is worth knowing that while the interoceanic line approaches completion Guatemala is making decided progress in the links of the Pan-American or intercontinental north and south trunk line. Guatemala, the country of the future 2011-12-12T03:00:29.630Z The third, down to 1881, shows the gradual establishment of state control in Prussia, and the formation of direct trunk lines. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z Shipping from America came into British ports, it will be remembered, in two great "trunk lines," one of which ran through the English Channel and the other up the Irish Sea. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z It is the terminus of a railway between Peking and the Yangtsze, the northern half of the trunk line from Peking to Canton. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z Running out from this trunk line there were six cross routes, four in Lower Canada, and two in Upper Canada. The History of the Post Office in British North America 2011-08-31T02:01:37.743Z The company sells communication over fiber trunk lines and other business services in Sweden, Finland, Norway as well as Denmark. TDC Chief Says Danish Mobile Price War May Trigger More Mergers 2011-06-21T22:20:13Z A second later he was speaking with the man who had actually witnessed the cutting of the trunk line. The Invasion 2011-05-20T02:00:29.260Z Every convoy nearly followed one of two main routes, known at convoy headquarters as the two "trunk lines." The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z The great bathtub mystery: I was walking through a trunk line on Cypress Avenue, which is the border of Ridgewood, Glendale, and I found a tub in there. Experience Necessary: Miles of Sewer Lines, and He Knows Them Well 2011-02-17T03:28:55Z There was a trunk line from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Niagara and Amherstburg on the western boundaries of Upper Canada. The History of the Post Office in British North America 2011-08-31T02:01:37.743Z A more or less similar state of affairs exists on the great majority of the trunk lines in the United States. Notes of an Itinerant Policeman 2011-01-24T03:00:19.187Z Railway News.—There is an old lady who says, that she always likes to travel by a trunk line, because then she feels confidence about the safety of her luggage. Mr. Punch's Railway Book 2011-01-23T03:00:16.120Z The convoys to the east coast took a trunk line that passed up the English Channel. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z The State constabulary is favored mainly by trunk lines that are troubled by vagrants. Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come 2011-01-17T03:00:51.213Z The Finnish government is paying more than half the $3.4 million cost to provide Utsjoki's 1,300 people—spread across an area larger than Rhode Island—with an underground fiber-optic trunk line. Bringing Broadband to Finland's Boondocks 2010-07-15T15:01:00Z Bristol plays a not unimportant part in the Post Office telephone trunk line system, commenced in 1896. The Bristol Royal Mail Post, Telegraph, and Telephone This grave of a great trunk line extended beyond their view. A Republic Without a President and Other Stories Practically all shipping from the United States to Great Britain and France took one of these trunk lines. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z In the transfer board these other means consist in the provision of groups of local trunk lines or transfer lines extending from each switchboard position to each other non-adjacent switchboard position. Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. The plan adopted in 1873 was to build independent lines from the seaports into the interior, and the great trunk lines then begun determined the development of the whole system. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" A trunk line connecting the eastern counties with the north and north-west of England runs northward from March under the joint working of the Great Northern and Great Eastern companies. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" The C. H. & S. F. is its great trunk line. A Republic Without a President and Other Stories Until World War I the one major trunk line ran south and east of the Carpathians from western Walachia to northern Moldavia. Area Handbook for Romania The trunk line is cut straight through and all bridge circuits or by-paths from it are cut off. Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. These fast and long runs are common to all the trunk lines in England, while in the United States the fast runs are all confined to two roads, the New York Central and the Pennsylvania. The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 He don't have to, with popper bossin' a couple of trunk lines. Side-stepping with Shorty The Russian occupation of Port Arthur was immediately followed by a concession to build a line of railway from that point northwards to connect with the Siberian trunk line in north Manchuria. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" As president of the St Lawrence and Atlantic he proposed to amalgamate this road with the Montreal and Kingston, and to build a bridge at Montreal, thus securing an essential part of the trunk line. The Railway Builders A Chronicle of Overland Highways In this condition, it will be remembered, the trunk line was cut through to a second selector trunk and all first selector apparatus cleared from the talking circuit. Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. Finally he managed to get a special operator, who told him sorrowfully that calls to Washington were jamming all available trunk lines. Occasion for Disaster You take number two trunk line, and find two of the staff—quick; any two. The Million-Dollar Suitcase A contract for a trunk line from Canton to Hankow was negotiated in the latter part of 1898 by an American company. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" Rate wars between the trunk lines in the United States came to an end. The Railway Builders A Chronicle of Overland Highways Normally both sides of trunk line are connected to the live side of the battery and, therefore, there is no difference of potential between them and no tendency to operate the bridged relay. Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. At Irapuato, an unimportant, dingy, dilapidated little town, nineteen miles from Silao, is the junction of the trunk line and a branch road to Guadalajara, which city we shall visit on our return trip northward. Aztec Land But the barns at Calabasas are burning––telephone wires from there cut, too––they had to pick up the Thief River trunk line to get a 287 message through. Nan of Music Mountain In especial the great trunk line from Peking to Hankow was pushed on. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" Need still existed for local extensions, but by a great effort the main trunk lines had been built. The Railway Builders A Chronicle of Overland Highways In small exchanges where ring-down trunks are employed, the trunk line equipment is merely added to the regular jack and drop equipment of the switchboard. Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. Iron ties and sleepers are being substituted on the trunk lines of the railways as fast as the wooden ones decay, being found so much more durable. Aztec Land The several trunk line railroads directly connecting this section with the northern industrial centers made the transportation of this labor an easy matter. Negro Migration during the War This is especially true now that the water-bound macadam surface has been largely superseded for trunk line highways and other heavily traveled roads, and is employed in locations where service conditions are not severe. American Rural Highways Her engineers and military railroad staff had repaired the damage the retreating Serbians had done to the main trunk line, and early in December through trains were running from Berlin to Constantinople. The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War The private branch-exchange trunk lines usually terminate on the private branch board in jacks but in some cases plug-ended trunks are used. Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. It is situated seventy-five miles south of Zacatecas, on the trunk line of the Mexican Central Railroad. Aztec Land The Southern Pool, under the management of Albert Fink, had long attracted the attention of the trunk line managers. The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses It is a rather settled conviction among highway engineers that on trunk line highways the maximum grade should be six per cent, unless a very large amount of grading is necessary to reach that grade. American Rural Highways The central exchange of one town is connected with that of another by one or more trunk lines, so that a subscriber may speak through an indefinite number of exchanges. How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use The usual method is to terminate them in a special long-distance board and to provide trunk lines from this board to the one or more local switchboards of the exchange. Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. Two great trunk line railways run, one on the north, the other to the south of these Plains which are fully twenty-five miles from north to south and twenty-five miles from east to west. "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders It was believed that a pool of the trunk lines could not be effective or permanent unless organized upon the Southern basis and presided over by a trunk expert. The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses The city is now the centre of a railroad system embracing fifteen important trunk lines, forming the largest grain, lumber, and livestock market in the world. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands Which reminds me that the trunk line from London to Girdle requires attention. Anthony Lyveden For such communication one or more trunk lines are led from the private branch office usually to the nearest central office of the public exchange and such trunks are called private branch-exchange trunks. Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. The principle of trunk lines, then first recognised, has since been carried into effect throughout England, and adopted in Scotland, though here the system has not yet had full time for development. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. Accordingly, when in 1877 an agreement for the pooling of the west-bound traffic was reached by the trunk lines, Mr. Fink was tendered the position of pool commissioner. The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses Or you can take a trunk line, and transfer to Vandeventer. Baseball Joe in the Big League or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles Any grave is a sacred spot to them, so much so that railroads have to run their trunk lines for miles in a detour to avoid graves. Flash-lights from the Seven Seas A great variety of different schemes, all embodying the fundamental idea of having one operator answer the call and another operator complete it through a trunk line, have been tried. Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. For the most part an old-time route map of the great trunk lines of the malle-poste and the messageries would, serve the automobilist of to-day equally as well as a modern road map. The Automobilist Abroad After the failure of the gigantic Western pool which had been organized under the protectorate of the trunk lines, the companies which had composed it formed such local combinations as their individual interests dictated. The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses In Asia Minor the only railway of importance is the trunk line from Scutari, on the Bosphorus, to the Taurus Tunnel, in course of completion near Adana. World's War Events, Vol. II A great trunk line had swallowed the playground, sliced away the school-room, and pared off the corner of the house. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete Early in the decade the trunk lines of the Eastern States were pushed across the mountains and through railway connection was established between the Mississippi Valley and the Atlantic Ocean. Outline of the development of the internal commerce of the United States 1789-1900 The tube dipped under traffic as it came to a trunk line, and my car magnetically lagged, until an opening in the traffic permitted it to swing swiftly into the main line tunnel. The Airlords of Han The success of this pool from a railroad point of view made the trunk lines anxious to organize a similar pool for the whole east-bound traffic. The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses This was practically the position of arbitrator between the trunk lines, but he was then Dean of the Cincinnati Law School and interested in a work which he did not care to relinquish. Historical Essays For the construction of a 'grand trunk line' running east and west she had already voted several millions. The Tribune of Nova Scotia A Chronicle of Joseph Howe The home government has encouraged railway building, and a trunk line through Rhodesia affords an outlet to the ports of the south coast. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges On a trunk line, however, where a derrick car is available for unloading and placing the pipes, there is no reason why they should not be built in 6 or 8-ft. sections. Concrete Construction Methods and Costs But the traffic of the trunk lines brought a new factor into the problem. The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses If the owner of several trunk lines expected his look to inspire consternation he was disappointed. The Daughter of a Magnate Now, sir, as to those great trunk lines of railway, spanning the continent from ocean to ocean, I confess my mind has never been fully made up. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) The railway lines are short and their business is local; there are practically no trunk line connections with the great centres of commerce. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges Why they told me that fifteen years ago I could have had all sorts of things,—trunk line railways, sugar refineries, silver mines,—any of them for a song. Behind the Beyond and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge At about the same time two other parallel trunk lines were developed, the Grand Trunk on the north, and the Erie, between the Lake Shore and Pennsylvania lines. The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses Any interference with its competitive activity will harm millions of Western people, tending as it will to increase cost of transportation and re-establish trunk line pooling monopoly. Fifty Years of Public Service Strange as the statement may seem in days like these, it had actually been five years since I had been on an express train of a trunk line. With The Eyes Shut 1898 A network of railways covers the grain-growing districts; trunk lines, mainly for strategic purposes, extend through Russian Turkestan to the Chinese border. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges The necessity of the trunk lines combining on freight is so clear that it is likely to result in some agreement that will stand. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. The existing conditions left no doubt in the minds of those familiar with railroad tactics that this war was simply the precursor of a gigantic combination between the trunk lines. The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses Several great trunk lines thus connect the capital City of Mexico and the southern part of the republic with the civilisation of the United States, over this relatively easy route. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development The following year Albert Fink succeeded in organising the great trunk lines connecting the North Atlantic seaboard and the States north of the Ohio River. Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) The Transsiberian Railway connecting Vladivostok with the trunk lines of Europe was built by the state both for strategic and economic purposes. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges Mr. Oakham called up Superintendent Galloway on the trunk line yesterday, to make inquiries, and shortly afterwards the news came through of Ronald's arrest. The Shrieking Pit In 1874 the managers of the Erie, Pennsylvania and New York Central met at Saratoga for the purpose of devising means for the suppression of competition in the trunk line traffic. The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses The great trunk lines which traverse it unite it with the railway system of the United States, the ports of the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, and with the capital of the Republic. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development It was, said another, the first link in a chain “which must, ere long, form p. 23one of the greatest and most important trunk lines in the kingdom.” The Story of the Cambrian A Biography of a Railway The iron rails formerly in use weighed about forty pounds per yard; now steel rails of one hundred pounds per yard are employed on most trunk lines. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges This railway eventually became the trunk line between Egypt and Palestine. With the British Army in The Holy Land The concession of differential rates settled, at least temporarily, the difficulties that had arisen out of the east-bound traffic of the trunk lines. The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses Michigan alone has six thousand miles of state trunk line highway. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twelfth Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, October 6 and 7, 1921 I switched the frequency on the station, beamed to a teleceiver trunk line on Earth, and called you up, my little space pet! Danger in Deep Space Before that time the lines were wholly local in character; with the readjustment they were organized into trunk lines. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges Some fourteen trunk lines have terminals at, or pass through, Buffalo. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" In order to get its share of the business, each trunk line maintained an office in New York. The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses Just as an estimate I would say that we have ten times as many miles of roadway in Michigan as we have trunk line highways. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twelfth Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, October 6 and 7, 1921 In education as well as in commerce there must be trunk lines of thought which bring the will as monarch of the mind into close communication with all the resources of knowledge and experience. The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart Several trunk lines of railway enter the city, which is a receiving and distributing depot for both Atlantic and Pacific freights. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges A trunk line of the Midland railway connects Bristol with the north of England by way of Gloucester, Worcester, Birmingham and Derby. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" There were, therefore, in 1874 five rival trunk lines competing for the business between the West and the seaboard. The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses The motor carrier companies, competing in speed of delivery with the quickened railways, will conceivably co-operate with the long-distance omnibus and the hired carriage companies in the formation of trunk lines. Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought Besides the central trunk lines of knowledge in history and natural science there are branches of study which are tributary to them, which serve also as connecting chains between more important subjects. The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart In many instances great trunk lines would have consolidated had not State laws prevented. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges The K. M. & O. was a main trunk line running out of Chaminade, and was the best road for business that I had as yet struck. Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers The trunk line classification recognizes six regular and two special classes, and every article known to commerce is placed in one of these classes. The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses Canada has only three big transcontinentals and no big trunk lines to take care of a crop that may be as large as the whole United States crop. The Canadian Commonwealth Practically every problem of trunk line train movement, including two, three, and four-track operation, had to be provided for in the switching plants of the subway. The New York Subway Its Construction and Equipment A trunk line of railway connects the city with Paris. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges That it was the great desideratum in cities in the production of food, and in food transportation from farms to trunk lines, on railways and on the ocean. The Harris-Ingram Experiment Lone Moose Creek was, so to speak, a trunk line. Burned Bridges Martin called up the trunk line and gave a number. The Summons Moreover, all essential details of the system had been worked out in years of practical operation on important trunk lines of railway, so that its reliability and efficiency were beyond question. The New York Subway Its Construction and Equipment The low cost of shipping the manufactured product over nearly level trunk lines is a very substantial gain. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges The connection between the trunk line so used and the line of the called-for subscriber will then be completed by the connecting link or trunk line extending between the two offices. Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. The short roads with steamboat connections were giving way to the trunk lines. Children of the Market Place Sir Chichester accordingly called upon the trunk line and gave the number. The Summons What this amended bill contemplated, was nothing less than a trunk line connecting the Great Lakes with the Gulf of Mexico. Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics The reason for the east-west direction of the great trunk lines is obvious; the great markets of North America, Europe, and Asia lie respectively to the east and the west. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges B boards are switchboards in which terminate the incoming ends of the trunk lines leading from other offices in the same exchange. Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. He is president of a railroad which runs from the salt gardens to Salt Lake City, connecting there with trunk lines. Conditions in Utah Speech of Hon. Thomas Kearns of Utah, in the Senate of the United States He will repair the following trunk roads: Peru Road, Sand Road, Lake-Shore Road; and construct a transverse trunk line road from Pulp Mill to O'Connell's Farm, and the necessary tram lines. Military Instructors Manual In the sixties the market became a national one as the effect of the consolidation into trunk lines of the numerous and disconnected railway lines built during the forties and fifties. A History of Trade Unionism in the United States In various instances important trunk lines have formed a general company, each having its separate organization, because they could accomplish under a combined organization what they could not as independent companies. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges Sometimes trunk lines are so arranged that connections may be originated at either of their ends. Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. The trunk lines in the early years of their existence were in the position of many other American business enterprises. The Promise of American Life The trunk line I followed was carried up and down by systems of locks of astounding magnitude and perfection. The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars Lord TANNEL-CHUNNEL, pending settlement of question about making his Channel Tunnel, is promoting new trunk line of railway. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 28, 1891 Most of the trunk lines, therefore, extend east and west; of the north and south lines only two are important. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges If, on the other hand, the trunk line is for connecting groups of subscribers' lines which terminate in different central offices, it is called an inter-office trunk. Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. As we have seen, the trunk lines leading from Chicago to the coast were the result of the consolidation of local roads. The Promise of American Life In 1851 Hincks succeeded in passing a measure which provided for the building of a great trunk line connecting Quebec with the western limits of Upper Canada. Lord Elgin It has lately been joined by railway to the main trunk line connecting with Moscow, and passing through Rostov. Persia Revisited Some of these, like the trunk lines of Chicago, handle freight exchanged between the East and West; but a large proportion are receiving and distributing roads for Southern freight. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges Page 318 In telephone exchange working, three classes of lines are dealt with—subscribers' lines, trunk lines, and toll lines. Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. The process of building up the leading systems was in the beginning a process of combining the local roads into important trunk lines. The Promise of American Life But since the accession of the emperor he has caused a private railroad to be constructed from the trunk line to a small station within a few hundred yards of the chalet. The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe: William II, Germany; Francis Joseph, Austria-Hungary, Volume I. (of 2) The early railroads, many of which were built in sections of a few miles in length, have been slowly welded into continuous trunk lines with many branches. Modern Economic Problems Economics Volume II For the transportation of these commodities about thirty great trunk lines enter the city and about twelve hundred passenger trains daily arrive and depart from its stations. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges The B operators are, therefore, those operators who receive the calls over trunk lines and complete the connection with the line of the subscriber desired. Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. The last-named busy little town of to-day owes much of its prosperity to the fact that it is an important meeting place of railways connecting three great trunk lines. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter It is proposed to build a railway bridge for the main trunk line, just above the rapids. Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada In place of many petty railroads, there were a few trunk lines. A School History of the United States In addition to the river-trade, still largely controlled at this point, it is the focus of more than twenty trunk lines of railway. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges Edison was in reality doing some heavy electric-railway engineering, his apparatus full of ideas, suggestions, prophecies; but to the operators of long trunk lines it must have seemed utterly insignificant and "excellent fooling." Edison, His Life and Inventions A paper of the first class, such as The New York World, has now an outfit of twenty trunk lines and eighty telephones. The History of the Telephone But from Switzerland it is smooth as a trunk line. Mr. Standfast His train runs from Cleveland to where it connects with a great trunk line railroad with terminals in Chicago and New York. Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life Several east-and-west trunk lines and local lines of railway have freight terminals in the city; it is also the centre of the most complete system of interurban electric railways in the world. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges "From ocean to ocean"—so say the Americans; and these four words compose the general designation of the "great trunk line" which crosses the entire width of the United States. Around the World in 80 Days Using the master control center, a phone engineer can test local and trunk lines for malfunctions. The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier The post-office people working the telephone trunk line would know that—a fact which probably escaped the party who called me up…. The Crimson Blind Our attention, however, is drawn particularly to the trunk lines. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 1, January, 1884 Commercially its situation resembles that of Indianapolis; it is a focal point of the chief trunk lines of railway in the South, and has the principal railway clearing-house. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges He was the first minister at Watertown; a position in those days as important as the presidency of a trunk line is in our own. Sketches from Concord and Appledore Out from her healthy commercial heart issue five trunk lines of railway; and a sixth is being added. Life on the Mississippi, Part 6. We decided on the telephone because we thought that we could not be traced that way, never imagining for a moment that you could get the number of your caller over the trunk line. The Crimson Blind By this the existing companies would gain enormously; they would be the trunk lines which the network would feed. Speculations from Political Economy The former is on the main line of the Northern, and the latter on the C. & S.C., both of which are trunk lines from Chicago to the West. The Short Line War I believe that the great journals and trunk lines of the land should stand in with one another. Remarks Guir was situated in a remote part of the State, upon an obscure road, far removed from any of the trunk lines. The Ghost of Guir House The principal trunk lines began at the gates of Rome and radiated thence to every province. Early European History He must needs have a climax, and that not forthcoming, he loaded his disgust into a trunk line and brought it back to his club corner here in New York. Crooked Trails There a bridge went over the river, and the railroad tracks joined those of a trunk line and ran eastward toward Chicago; but Hugh did not continue his journey on that night. Poor White It crosses most of the large trunk lines and it is a road which, from a general business standpoint, ought to pay. My Life and Work I should like to," answered the doctor, "but I can catch a train on the other trunk line that will give me a few more hours with my sister. Over the Pass Other trunk lines were soon built in Italy, and from them a network of smaller highways was extended to every part of the peninsula. Early European History Your messages have all gone through on the trunk lines, sir. The Profiteers It is the old Hudson Bay trunk line to the north that has been in use for nearly a century. Klondyke Nuggets A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest From Berlin you will see trunk lines extending in an almost direct route to her French and Russian frontiers. The Secrets of the German War Office Thus between Albany and Buffalo there were ten such little roads; but in 1853 they were consolidated and became the New York Central, and the era of the great trunk lines was fairly opened. A Brief History of the United States With immense confidence in his plans and in his ability to carry them out, he set out to monopolize the anthracite coal supply and to make the Reading Railroad a great trunk line. Great Fortunes from Railroads Local roads were transformed, by extension and consolidation, into great trunk lines embracing thousands of miles. Problems in American Democracy A great trunk line, extending east and west through the whole length of the State, has long been a favorite scheme of many statesmen in the effort to build up a seaport at Beaufort. School History of North Carolina : from 1584 to the present time California has two trunk lines running the entire length of the state, with branch lines connecting them with the county seats. Community Civics and Rural Life In place of many little railroads there were now trunk lines. A Brief History of the United States Work should proceed on the basic trunk lines if this work is to be a success. State of the Union Address Copper being less susceptible of self-induction than iron, is preferred for trunk lines. The Story of Electricity Five trunk lines of railroads penetrate and intersect the state. Three Acres and Liberty Say, I am operating all this trunk line. Ulysses He was informed that the trunk line was very busy and that he might have to wait half an hour. Arsene Lupin He was engaged on the Erie trunk line, was paid highly, and was much esteemed. The Courtship of Susan Bell And it is here that the question of the electrification of trunk lines now rests. The Story of Electricity Eventually lateral and trunk lines covered the West with their network of lines and thus obliterated all rivalry and competition by providing unmatched facilities for quick transportation. The Paths of Inland Commerce; a chronicle of trail, road, and waterway By 1875 these five great trunk lines, the New York Central, the Pennsylvania, the Erie, the Baltimore and Ohio, and the Grand Trunk, had connected their scattered units and established complete through systems. The Railroad Builders; a chronicle of the welding of the states In the fifties plans had been made for a main trunk line to run from Halifax to the Detroit River. The Canadian Dominion; a chronicle of our northern neighbor Then they steamed back to civilization as fast as possible, reached the main trunk line, and sped on to Buffalo without a moment's delay. Theodore Roosevelt; an Intimate Biography To summarize then, electric working of a trunk line results in increased economy over steam locomotives by concentration of the power and especially by the use of water power where possible. The Story of Electricity The trunk lines then got together and entered into an agreement to stabilize rates and carry them into effect. My Memories of Eighty Years The characteristic of this period is the development of the great trunk lines and the construction of a transcontinental route to the Pacific. The Railroad Builders; a chronicle of the welding of the states There are lots of Italians settled here on the railway lands, dismissed navvies, mechanics, and so on, all along the trunk line. Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard His vision took in the vast future values of the properties as developed trunk lines, and the greater possibilities of their control and operation as a consolidated whole. The Railroad Builders; a chronicle of the welding of the states Perhaps its most characteristic episodes have been the fight of the "Grangers" and their successors against the trunk lines and that of the general public against the Standard Oil Company. The Railroad Builders; a chronicle of the welding of the states |
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