| 单词 | roadbed |
| 例句 | The roadbed slants down at 45 degrees on both sides. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z In the three decades since construction ended, much of the roadbed has been obliterated by washouts, brush, and beaver ponds, but the bus is still there. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the ties sink, especially during the rainy season, when the roadbed turns soggy and soft. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Instantly they gave chase, drove it across the tracks and there filled their pockets with granite stones from the roadbed. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He aimed for tumbleweeds lying in the roadbed and shouted with triumph each time he squashed one. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z He tried to run and his leg rebroke under him and he crawled up the ragged slope to the roadbed where it was happening. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It was the main line from Venice to Trieste, with a high solid embankment, a solid roadbed and double track. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Heavy rains and high winds earlier this month resulted in a slide that destroyed more than 50 linear feet of the roadbed and reduced the road’s width to less than a travel lane. Whiskey Bend Road closed by slide in Olympic National Park 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Along its length, its spine-snapping roadbed cuts through boreal forests, across the Arctic Circle, up and down the passes of the Brooks Range and deep into the reaches of a misty coastal plain. Driving Alaska’s Dalton Highway 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z "Bridge" glories in the energetic, criss-crossing geometry of diagonal stairways, vertical support columns and horizontal elevated roadbed. At SAAM: A lost art-history chapter restored 2011-12-07T23:48:10Z The caravan thundered down highways that were barely there, the roadbed eaten by permafrost, the gravel flying like buckshot against the bottoms of the big cars. Jerry Lee Lewis on touring with Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins: “They knew, even then, they were seeing the greatest thing” 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z There were occasional rewards at the top: views of valleys with the seasonal colors beginning to change, and when the roadbed wasn’t too chewed up, an exciting plunge down the other side. In Transit Blog: Headed East, More Hill Than Dale 2011-10-06T16:27:51Z With crews still working to clear debris from under the freeway, the wooden structure that will support the roadbed around the damaged columns is already being constructed. 'You can smell the pollution': 10 Freeway closure brings traffic, fumes, anger for residents 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z He and his group are adamantly opposed to the expansion of sidewalk dining into the roadbeds. NYC outdoor dining sheds were a celebrated pandemic-era innovation. Now, there’s a new set of rules 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z The city was already developed, and space was so scarce that First Hill residents held a protest march in 1961 against plans to carve a roadbed through their neighborhood. Seattle’s I-5 squeeze finally not so tight as new lane opens 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z Bullet holes have been plastered over, and roadbeds torn by tank treads repaired. After Russian atrocities, a town wants justice. The United Nations might not offer much help 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z She believes raising the roadbed and installing a small wildlife underpass beneath it would significantly reduce the number of newts that die on Chileno Valley Road. A ‘Big Night’ for Newts, and for a California Newt Brigade 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z In the Florida Keys, officials are looking at raising roadbeds that will otherwise become impassable. Florida’s Leaders Opposed Climate Aid. Now They’re Depending on It. 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z “For residents, it’s less curb space, less sidewalk space, less roadbed space, less space to get up and down the block, less quiet, less emergency access, it’s just less,” he said. NYC outdoor dining sheds were a celebrated pandemic-era innovation. Now, there’s a new set of rules 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z Muddy water now courses through where the roadbed had been only a week ago. Yellowstone aims for quick opening; flooded towns struggling 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z “Some of our original roadbeds date back to the early 1900s,” Hansen said. Seattle is plagued by potholes, Bellevue not so much 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z The roadbed is as wide as nine lanes near the ferry terminal, detracting from city promises to “open up the waterfront” for pedestrians. New photo book ‘Supertunnel’ chronicles Bertha’s complicated journey in the construction of Seattle’s Highway 99 tunnel 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z Alternative routes wind near riverbanks and houses, where the roadbeds aren’t design for heavy trucks. Fallen cargo blocks, damages busy Tukwila bridge 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Warming temperatures are accelerating the glacier’s movement downhill, carrying 300 feet of roadbed with it and jeopardizing continued access to some of the park’s key attractions. At Alaska’s most popular national park, climate change threatens the only road in and out 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z The roadbed has slumped about 30 feet since Sept. 6, “already exceeding the total movement seen from October 2020 to March of 2021,” according to a statement from the park. Partial Denali park road closure in Alaska expected for 2022 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z A section of the bridge’s outer pedestrian walkway and stretch under the roadbed carrying utility lines broke off and fell into the Tiber. Blaze damages historic bridge spanning Tiber River in Rome 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z The stretch of highway is on a hillside, and White said the deluge blew out a pipe that ran under the roadbed. Mississippi gets ready to repair highway collapse from Ida 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z “During the 1990s, the landslide, which occurs below the roadbed, only caused small cracks in the road surface,” the statement said. Landslide prompts closure on Denali park road in Alaska 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z In that area, the dirt roadbed is cut into a shelf on the mountainside. At Alaska’s most popular national park, climate change threatens the only road in and out 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Reuters: How long before wireless charging of electric vehicle batteries will become a reality, whether it's through the roadbed or solar panels on the vehicle or some other means? Battery pioneer Akira Yoshino on Tesla, Apple and the electric future 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z Early planning documents asserted the roadbed “would return to baseline” within a few years of the project’s completion. Protect Mount St. Helens’ volcanic landscape 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z Largemouth bass are fair on spoons, green or black finesse worms, crankbaits, and brown/green flipping jigs near deep points, roadbeds, brush piles, timber, and rocky shorelines. Texas Fishing Report 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z Largemouth bass are fair with green pumpkin craws, blade baits, and football jigs near the creek bends, drop-offs, rocky shorelines, and roadbeds. Texas Fishing Report 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z Largemouth bass are fair with green pumpkin craws, blade baits, and football jigs near the creek bends, dropoffs, rocky shorelines, and roadbeds. Texas Fishing Report 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z On the Seattle waterfront, four-lane Alaskan Way South will be shifted farther inland onto a new concrete roadbed, from south King to Columbia streets this weekend from Friday night until Monday morning. I-90 across Lake Washington to close eastbound Saturday night for maintenance 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z Largemouth bass are good with soft plastics, crankbaits, and spinners near the creek mouths, drop-offs, rocky shorelines, and roadbeds. Texas Fishing Report 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z Largemouth bass are good fishing lipless crankbaits, skirted jigs, and jerk baits near rocky shorelines, roadbeds, and brush. Texas Fishing Report 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z Largemouth bass are slow on finesse worms, crankbaits, and football jigs near creeks with timber, roadbeds, brush piles, creeks, and rocky shorelines. Texas Fishing Report 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z Largemouth bass are slow on finesse worms, silver spoons, diving crankbaits, and football jigs near creeks with timber, roadbeds, brush piles, creeks, and rocky shorelines. Texas Fishing Report 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z The man was able to climb onto the platform from the roadbed and did not need medical assistance. NYPD makes arrest in latest 'subway shove' attack 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Largemouth bass are fair fishing lipless crankbaits, skirted jigs, and jerk baits near rocky shorelines, roadbeds, and brush. Texas Fishing Report 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z Largemouth bass are good fishing crankbaits, skirted jigs, and jerk baits near rocky shorelines, roadbeds, and brush. Texas Fishing Report 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z Largemouth bass are good fishing square billed crankbaits, skirted jigs, and finesse worms near rocky shorelines, roadbeds, and brush. Texas Fishing Report 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z Largemouth bass are good with wacky worms, silver or chrome crankbaits, and silver bladed spinnerbaits near the creek mouths, drop-offs, rocky shorelines, and roadbeds. Texas Fishing Report 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z Largemouth bass are good with wacky worms, crankbaits, and silver bladed spinnerbaits near the creek mouths, drop-offs, rocky shorelines, and roadbeds. Texas Fishing Report 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Largemouth bass are fair on skirted jigs, spoons, crankbaits, and spinners near creeks with timber, roadbeds, brushy points, and rocky shorelines. Texas Fishing Report 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z Largemouth bass are good on skirted jigs, crankbaits, and spinners near heavy timber, roadbeds, brushy points, and rocky shorelines. Texas Fishing Report 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z Largemouth bass are excellent on skirted jigs, shad or perch colored crankbaits, and bladed spinners near heavy timber, roadbeds, brushy points, and rocky shorelines. Texas Fishing Report 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z Largemouth bass are good fishing square billed crankbaits, jigs, and finesse worms near rocky shorelines, roadbeds, and brush. Texas Fishing Report 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z Largemouth bass are good on jigs, crankbaits, and spinners near heavy timber, roadbeds, brushy points, and rocky shorelines. Texas Fishing Report 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Largemouth bass are good with Texas-rigged plastic worms, jerk baits, and bladed spinnerbaits near the creeks, drop-offs, rocky shorelines, and roadbeds. Texas Fishing Report 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z Largemouth bass are good with wacky worms, crankbaits, and jerk baits near the creek mouths, drop-offs, rocky shorelines, and roadbeds. Texas Fishing Report 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z Largemouth bass are fair on shaky heads, finesse worms, and skirted jigs near heavy timber, roadbeds, brushy points, and rocky shorelines. Texas Fishing Report 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z Largemouth bass are good on dark-skirted jigs, green or blue crankbaits, and bladed spinners near heavy timber, roadbeds, brushy points, and rocky shorelines. Texas Fishing Report 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z The construction of a cable-stayed bridge does not require a temporary structure rising from the ground to support construction of the roadbed. L.A. area finally has its own 'postcard' bridge — a $1.4-billion landmark in Long Beach 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z Largemouth bass are fair on shaky heads, crankbaits, and skirted jigs near heavy timber, roadbeds, brushy points, and rocky shorelines. Texas Fishing Report 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z He loved the sound the tires of the family car made as they rolled over the concrete roadbed of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. Perspective | Hum, thrum and roar: Modern sounds bring joy to those who hear them 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z Crankbaits and spinners along channel edges, submerged timber and roadbeds are effective as well. Texas Fishing Report 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Diving crankbaits and spinners along channel edges, submerged timber and roadbeds are productive as well. Texas Fishing Report 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z Diving crankbaits and light-colored spinners along channel edges, submerged timber and roadbeds are producing as well. Texas Fishing Report 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z Black bass are fair near roadbeds, drop-offs, submerged structure and timber on bladed spinners, crankbaits, and Carolina rigged plastic worms. Texas Fishing Report 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Chunks of concrete will eventually be crushed and later used as roadbed at the former Hollywood Park site in Inglewood where an NFL stadium will eventually be constructed. Playing in new SoFi Stadium should spark Chargers, says experienced Linval Joseph 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z In the middle of the night, metal rods would periodically poke up through the roadbed from somewhere below. The First Subway in New York City Was a Cylindrical Car Pushed by Air 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z “It’s this slow creep upward that gets into garages and foundations and roadbeds.” Some California cities think they're safe from sea level rise. They’re not, new data show 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z Largemouth bass are good fishing Texas-rigged plastic worms, jigs and jerk baits along creek beds, submerged timber and roadbeds in 12-18’. Texas Fishing Report 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z Diving crankbaits along channel edges, submerged timber and roadbeds are producing as well. Texas Fishing Report 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Largemouth bass are good near rocky bluffs, gravel beds, and roadbeds with square billed crankbaits, jigs, plastic worms and spinners with some fish taken early with topwater plugs and plastic frogs. Texas Fishing Report 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z Black bass are fair on crankbaits, spinners, and Carolina rigged soft plastic worms working vegetation, brush, rocks bluffs, and roadbeds. Texas Fishing Report 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z Largemouth bass are fair in brushy shorelines, gravel beds, and roadbeds with square billed crankbaits, jerk baits, plastic lizards, and bladed spinners with some fish taken early with topwater plugs and plastic frogs. Texas Fishing Report 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z Black bass are fair on crankbaits, spinners, and Carolina rigged soft plastic worms working vegetation in 10’ working brush, rocks bluffs, or roadbeds. Texas Fishing Report 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Largemouth bass are good on plastic worms, topwater and chatter baits near roadbeds, submerged structure and points in 8-12’ and plastic frogs in shallow grass and lily pads. Texas Fishing Report 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z Largemouth bass are excellent in brushy shorelines, gravel beds, and roadbeds with square billed crankbaits, jerk baits, plastic lizards, and bladed spinners with some fish taken on topwater plugs and plastic frogs. Texas Fishing Report 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z Largemouth bass are fair near brushy shorelines, gravel beds and roadbeds with square billed crankbaits, jerk baits, plastic lizards, and bladed spinners with some fish taken early with topwater plugs and plastic frogs. Texas Fishing Report 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z Largemouth bass are fair on plastic worms, topwater and crankbaits near roadbeds, submerged structure, and points in 8-12’ and with some action with plastic frogs in shallow grass and lily pads. Texas Fishing Report 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z Largemouth bass are good on red, purple or black plastic worms, topwater and crankbaits near roadbeds, submerged structure, and points in 8-12’ and with some action with plastic frogs in shallow grass and lily pads. Texas Fishing Report 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Largemouth bass are excellent on plastic worms, topwater and chatter baits roadbeds, submerged structure and points in 8-12’ and plastic frogs in shallow grass and lily pads. Texas Fishing Report 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z Black bass are good on crankbaits, spinners, and Carolina rigged soft plastic worms working vegetation in 10’ working brush, rocks bluffs, or roadbeds. Texas Fishing Report 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z Largemouth bass are excellent on plastic lizards, topwater, and chatter baits and frogs for spawning fish in shallow areas with some fish holding on post-spawn areas such as roadbeds, submerged structure, and points in 8-12’. Texas Fishing Report 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z Largemouth bass are fair on plastic lizards, topwater, and chatter baits spawning in shallow grassy areas with some fish holding on roadbeds and points. Texas Fishing Report 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Largemouth bass are excellent in brushy shorelines, gravel beds, and roadbeds with square billed crankbaits, jerk baits, plastic lizards, and bladed spinners with some fish taken early with topwater plugs and plastic frogs. Texas Fishing Report 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Because of an unusual design, going into 2019, the levee protecting an elevated Highway 2 roadbed on the Iowa side jutted into the Missouri River Valley in a horseshoe fashion. Iowa, Nebraska officials: Roads still vulnerable to flooding 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z Largemouth bass are excellent on plastic worms, topwater and chatter baits near roadbeds, submerged structure and points in 8-12’ and plastic frogs in shallow grass and lily pads. Texas Fishing Report 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z Water seeped some 15 feet underneath the roadbed, and also rushed over it, causing a 100-foot swath of the road to wash out. Months of repair work ahead after landslides slammed Washington roads during intense storms 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z Besides raising awareness, the city installed 1,250 new bike parking spaces, mostly on the roadbed, that provide alternatives to sidewalk parking. Half of Seattle bike-share rental bikes were inoperable in late-summer maintenance slump, city audit says 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z The department also says it plans to raise a portion of the roadbed next week on Nebraska Highway 61 between Hyannis and Merriman. State reports progress in reopening Sandhills highways 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z Organizers said the event attracted 499 participants to traverse roadbed and the Jewfish Creek Bridge at the top of the Florida Keys Overseas Highway. South Florida runner wins Keys half-marathon title 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z The town, he said, still has a right-of-way along the old roadbed, and the stone bridge abutment on the side facing the Monument remains in place. Bennington urged to think big for battle’s 250th celebration 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z The reason to be pessimistic about high-speed rail eventually serving points in central and western Pennsylvania is the big outlay that would be necessary to upgrade - and expand - track and roadbeds. Editorials from around Pennsylvania 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z The soggy roadbed eventually heaves, softens and fails, leaving ruts and maintenance headaches. Long, wet winter leaves behind frost boils on gravel roads 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z Newborn said the concrete roadbed is “grooved to help with traction,” and speculated that the grooves may be what people are feeling. Seattle drivers seem to like the new Highway 99 tunnel — but they have a few complaints 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z For several months next year, demolition of the old viaduct will reduce the four-lane roadbed to two lanes, as the contractors move about the area. Weekend road work: Northbound I-5 and southbound viaduct lane closures, and new waterfront road 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Though the general area is full of roadway spans, the express roadbed itself sits upon a broad, lightly rising ground slope as you travel south. I-5 will add a 5th express lane to serve future Eastside-South Lake Union bus routes 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Traffic squeezes into just two lanes, one of which detours via the eastbound roadbed. Northbound I-5 in Seattle, westbound Highway 2 near Everett will close this weekend for repairs 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z One sprayed a sticky black goo on the naked roadbed. Perspective | From potholes to perfect pavement: My neighborhood has lovely new streets 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z Nowhere have the challenges been steeper than Big Thompson Canyon, where floodwaters scoured away not only pavements and guardrails but roadbeds and subsurface geology, effectively leaving sections of highway unsound and unsafe. Colorado Charts a New Path Away from Floodwaters 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Public Works Director Bob Miller says a paving company was completing work, including raising manholes to match the height of the roadbed. Mayor: Manhole that sparked deadly wreck is city’s fault 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z The roadbed beneath much of the track needs to be chipped out and replaced with fresh concrete and new drains. The Case for the Subway 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z Among them is the single marked Cosby, Tennessee plot in woods off an overgrown, old roadbed. Book details Smokies’ cemeteries and their eternal residents 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z Trump will blame Obama for modernizing the roadbed! Amtrak Inquiry Will Focus on Driver Distraction and Excessive Speed 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z That’s because SDOT’s plan includes only one general lane westbound, to provide a bus lane and two general lanes eastbound within a four-lane roadbed. Bus-only lane on Denny Way is postponed 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z They will look for underground voids and weaknesses in the roadbed. Virginia to test Natural Bridge arch for long-term stability 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z Officers found a ladder on the elevated railway’s roadbed. Giant gold coin worth $4.5 million stolen from Berlin museum 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Officers searching the crime scene found a ladder on the elevated railway’s roadbed, which is near the museum’s back wall. Thieves Take a Chunk of Change, All 221 Pounds of It, From a Berlin Museum 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Her body was found in a roadbed down from the house. A dead widow, a powerful politician and an unsolved mystery 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z Miami Beach is raising roadbeds and building flood walls to hold back the rising seas. As Trump Signals Climate Action Pullback, Local Leaders Push Forward 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z Along the coast, the state is raising the roadbed of Highway 64 by eighteen inches to account for sea-level rise. A Critical Week in North Carolina 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Bus lanes will be added to busy 196th Street Southwest — not by appropriating general lanes like Seattle, but by widening the roadbed. Primed for major growth: Lynnwood and light rail 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z The buses will run along the city’s historic highway’s original roadbed. Federal judge OKs Albuquerque Route 66 transit plan 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z The $119-million project backed by the city’s Mayor Richard Berry would build a system of express buses and canopy-covered stations along Central Avenue, which runs the route of the historic highway’s original roadbed. Albuquerque wins federal approval for Route 66 transit route 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Workers operating heavy machinery will pulverize the 50-year-old concrete panels, compact the rubble, then lay an 8-inch layer of asphalt over the roadbed. Your next freeway headache: I-5 near Southcenter; here are the details 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z Plates are set into the roadbed about a mile before the roadside weigh station. Keep on truckin’: Pondering those ubiquitous weigh stations on an interstate drive 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z The elevated roadbeds were higher than the driveways, which now all sloped down. Miami Underwater 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z There also are two locations on Interstate 40 in San Bernardino County with eastbound traffic diverted to the westbound roadbed with one lane in direction, Caltrans said. Southern California Labor Day traffic: Expect delays 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z “It was one of the most dangerous places in the city to walk because you were literally forced into the roadbed,” Mr. White said of the old layout of Times Square. Mayor de Blasio Raises Prospect of Removing Times Square Pedestrian Plazas 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z White bass are good on Rat-L-Traps along shallow roadbeds in the main lake early and late. Texas Fishing Report 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z The company would convert a mined area into roadbed. Coal slump puts Coalfields Expressway project on hold 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z White bass are fair on slabs and spoons on points and shallow roadbeds. Texas Fishing Report 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z The southern approach will be along Greenwich Street, which looks like a New York street, with a roadbed, curb stones and anti-terrorist bollards. A Crossroads Decades Gone Will Reopen at the World Trade Center 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z White bass are fair on minnows on points and windy shallow roadbeds. Texas Fishing Report 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z When police got to the scene near 67th Street and 15th Avenue, they found the two men about 10 feet apart in the roadbed of the tracks. 2 men found dead at NYC freight train tracks 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z But in Eastland County, as well as farther east in Fort Worth and elsewhere, Thurber brick was the roadbed and, in places, it has stood the test of time. The ‘Broadway of America’ connected the South 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z Still, the state D.O.T. plans to proceed with protective measures, such as watering down the roadbed and continual air monitoring. A Controversy in the Wind 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z “We were trying to create a certainty that the roadbed and necklace would remain unobscured from tower to tower.” By Blocking View of the Brooklyn Bridge, a Building Incites a Battle 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z In a suspension structure such as the Golden Gate Bridge primary cables are strung from tower to tower and secondary cables drop down from those to hold the roadbed in place. Popular Cable-Stay Bridges Rise Across U.S. to Replace Crumbling Spans 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Melonas says railroad engineers are inspecting the roadbed and slopes for stability. Passenger service disrupted after mudslide hits tracks near Edmonds 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z The central roadbed, paved in Mesabi black granite and lined with honey locusts, will be reserved for pedestrians. Rebuilding Recreates Intersection of Long Ago 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Lines of inquiry included a fault in one of the cars or the sinking of the roadbed, according to Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for Russia’s top investigative body. World Digest: July 15, 2014 The city spent $1 million more to raise the roadbed and restore a small wetland. Looking for signs of climate change? Check the streets of Norfolk at high tide This is the right question to ask, and I deeply admire that last line about regulation – it’s where the democratic tires hit the pockmarked roadbed of the digital highway. Digital Civil Society: Asking The Right Questions On Data, Dollars And Democracy 2013-11-07T23:54:00Z The EM waves are generated by pulsed, or by oscillating, currents in electrical conductors that form the roadbed structure in the evacuated tube way. Elon Musk's Hyperloop Can Get You From LA to San Francisco In 30 Minutes 2013-05-31T14:20:52Z The plaza plan calls for the sloping roadbed and sidewalk to be replaced by shallow terraces of asphalt and concrete paving stones, with granite curbs and steps. City Room: A New Vision for Pershing Square, 27 Years in the Making 2013-04-25T19:00:11Z And there are the ones that go by at a faster clip, and more thunderously, on Interstate 95, whose elevated light blue roadbed casts shadows on some streets. | Cos Cob, Conn.: Cos Cob, Conn./Living In: A Stroll or Sail Away From Anywhere 2012-04-07T03:17:17Z The freight business from the factory is not worth enough for the company to put in a first-class roadbed. Ralph in the Switch Tower 2012-03-02T03:00:11.847Z One temple was somewhat disfigured, and her dress was soiled with roadbed dust and grime. Ralph of the Roundhouse 2012-03-02T03:00:11.217Z There remained much work to be done in completing the track and the roadbed, station buildings, equipment, and the other appurtenances necessary for a going railroad. The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg RailRoad 2012-03-02T03:00:07.920Z Ralph was so dazed that he could barely collect wit and strength in an endeavor to crawl out of the roadbed. Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car 2012-02-29T03:00:25.457Z He kept on smiling as they drew ahead, urged on by greater weight, better runners, or a smoother condition of the snowy roadbed. The White Crystals Being an Account of the Adventures of Two Boys 2012-01-13T03:00:11.507Z It had been built by the Great Northern to connect with a belt line fifteen miles distant, all equipped as to rails, switches, and roadbed. Ralph in the Switch Tower 2012-03-02T03:00:11.847Z The brush had been cleared away, the ground leveled here and there, some rudely cut ties were set in place, and the layout showed a presentable and scientifically laid put and graded roadbed. Ralph of the Roundhouse 2012-03-02T03:00:11.217Z Workers will inspect, repair and clean tracks, signal systems and roadbed, the MTA said. New York MTA to Shut Lexington Avenue Line Overnight for Repairs 2012-01-09T17:04:01Z They came limping, flying, rolling along the roadbed from the direction of a train standing stationary on the out track. Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car 2012-02-29T03:00:25.457Z The concussion, when he struck the hard roadbed, produced insensibility. An Oregon Girl A Tale of American Life in the New West 2011-11-17T03:00:31.330Z As it fell to the roadbed, he said: "Watch up and down the tracks, Mort." Ralph in the Switch Tower 2012-03-02T03:00:11.847Z Mr. Tillinghast observes “that the porters, cooks, and waiters on a Pullman train are usually mulattoes, while the laborers in the gang on the roadbed are nearly all black.” The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z As for implanting chargers in the roadbed, that technology is "fascinating, and very expensive," Smith says. Recharge and Roll: Electric Car-Makers Plan to Cut the Cord 2011-10-28T11:15:00.190Z The strange boy appeared upon the scene so suddenly that Ralph decided he must have reached the roadbed from the other side of the embankment. Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car 2012-02-29T03:00:25.457Z Then the roadbed shifted inland, and lines of patient, humped zebus trailed slowly from their sheds—sheds of larger size and better built than the huts of their owners. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z He seized the crowbars in turn lying on the roadbed. Ralph in the Switch Tower 2012-03-02T03:00:11.847Z This first amazed me and then alarmed me, because I knew it could not be so as I had seen on the roadbed evidences of recent and heavy travel. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z With worn-out tracks and roadbeds, dilapidated engines and cars, it is remarkable that the railway trains were able to run at all. Life in the Confederate Army Being Personal Experiences of a Private Soldier in the Confederate Army 2011-08-19T02:00:11.243Z The roadbed was none too smooth, and he had to be careful how he picked his steps. Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car 2012-02-29T03:00:25.457Z But a study has already looked at various options for the Bayonne Bridge problem and presumably has rejected that one, because it has instead recommended raising the bridge’s roadbed by 64 feet. City Critic: A Bridge Too Low and a Lesson for Visionaries 2011-07-09T01:16:24Z She tossed her head in the air and proceeded across the planked passenger roadbeds, dodging a hand-car, climbing over a stationary freight, and continuing recklessly across the railroad property where outsiders were not allowed. Ralph in the Switch Tower 2012-03-02T03:00:11.847Z When they had reached the depot the last of the cars was well down the line, and soon the train had disappeared around a curve of the roadbed. The Rover Boys on a Tour or Last Days at Brill College 2011-05-24T02:00:14.887Z A heavy rain which had been falling all day had changed the dry, sandy beds of the Salt and Gila rivers to torrential streams, to the great disadvantage of the roadbeds. From Pillar to Post Leaves from a Lecturer's Note-Book 2011-05-05T02:00:21.620Z They had noted or guessed his sharp pursuit of them, had joined each a hand, and spreading out the others practically barricaded the narrow tunnel roadbed so he could in no manner get past them. Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car 2012-02-29T03:00:25.457Z It was possible to follow this track a few yards, but there the trail ceased, the car apparently had been brought up again on the hard roadbed and no trace was left of its passage. The Go Ahead Boys and the Mysterious Old House 2011-04-27T02:00:27.420Z Some time before dawn the roadbed became solid and I slept until summoned by my companion to see the ca�on of the Feather River. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z Here the going was slower yet, for the mud was deep and the roadbed cut into deep ruts. The Black Star A Detective Story 2011-04-14T02:01:01.883Z We suddenly began to slow up, the car swung off sideways from the roadbed, ran toward the bushes on the right, and came to a halt. Miss Maitland Private Secretary 2011-03-08T03:00:39.100Z The roadbed was somewhat neglected and uneven, but he had run over it twice within a few months, and as they started out Roberts announced that their special orders had shown clear tracks. Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car 2012-02-29T03:00:25.457Z Material was borrowed along each side to obtain the required twenty-four foot of roadbed. Third Biennial Report of the Oregon State Highway Commission Covering the Period December 1st, 1916 to November 30th, 1918 2011-02-23T03:00:35.127Z On the far side was a fern-covered terrace that fell away three feet to a roadbed, and just beyond the road the rim of a void a hundred feet deep showed. The Three Sapphires 2011-02-07T03:00:24.770Z In a few minutes they were on the natural roadbed again, swishing through pools of muddy water, and clanking over the stony stretches at a brisk trot. Lost Farm Camp 2011-01-23T03:00:16.437Z The roadbed was good and the leading car accelerated its speed racing onward under the arching boughs. Miss Maitland Private Secretary 2011-03-08T03:00:39.100Z “Whew! there was a tilt,” whistled Roberts, as No. 93 scurried a curve where she threatened to dip clear over sideways into a swampy stretch which had undermined the solid roadbed. Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car 2012-02-29T03:00:25.457Z The controlling points on this route are the slides which must be headed to secure a stable roadbed. Third Biennial Report of the Oregon State Highway Commission Covering the Period December 1st, 1916 to November 30th, 1918 2011-02-23T03:00:35.127Z Here, six feet from the wall, he had taken off in a mighty leap; two holes cupped from the roadbed by the push of his hind feet told this tale. The Three Sapphires 2011-02-07T03:00:24.770Z A few years ago the K. C. & O. R. R. in grading its roadbed through that farm disturbed the grave and uncovered its bones. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z Lands and buildings and machinery, or the roadbed and rolling stock of a railroad, are highly specialized, often unfit for use in any form other than that in which they now appear. The Value of Money 2011-01-04T03:01:12.363Z Why put the crossover between Fifth and Sixth, rather than between Sixth and Seventh, where pedestrians already swarm into the roadbed? Confronting the Mire on 34th Street 2010-04-26T18:20:00Z The summit reached is 522 feet and the length of this line is 6.3 miles, which includes a development of 5 per cent grade at each end and provides for a 24 foot roadbed. Third Biennial Report of the Oregon State Highway Commission Covering the Period December 1st, 1916 to November 30th, 1918 2011-02-23T03:00:35.127Z At the Carnettsville station the daily train drew up one morning and uncoupled, on a siding, the first private car that had ever run over that piece of roadbed. The Law of Hemlock Mountain The engineer was trying to make the time up, and in consequence the coaches were swaying and jerking over the rather imperfect roadbed. The Man from Jericho The roadbed, having been brought to the required grade and crown, should be rolled several times to compact the surface. The Future of Road-making in America Not a soul for miles around the section shanty, just mountains and track and cuts and fills, and nothing on earth for Sammy Durgan to do but keep a paternal eye generally on the roadbed. The Night Operator The work was handled by the contractors in a very creditable manner, and an excellent roadbed was secured. Third Biennial Report of the Oregon State Highway Commission Covering the Period December 1st, 1916 to November 30th, 1918 2011-02-23T03:00:35.127Z He should not have a mind with a flange on it, so that it forever runs on the small rail along the dusty roadbeds of routine. The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses The harbor of Suez roadbeds was found to afford anchorage for 500 ships, its depth being from sixteen to twenty-four feet, bottomed with soft mud. My Trip Around the World August, 1895-May, 1896 Such material usually contains tough angular gravel with just enough cementing properties to enable it to readily pack and consolidate, and requires no further treatment than to place it properly on the prepared roadbed. The Future of Road-making in America Over a rough and dusty roadbed rolled a long train of coaches bearing tourists, farmseekers and business men through banks of smoke and clouds of cinders to the great farming lands of the west. Chiquita, an American Novel The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter The width of roadbed is 20 feet and the maximum grade is 5 per cent. Third Biennial Report of the Oregon State Highway Commission Covering the Period December 1st, 1916 to November 30th, 1918 2011-02-23T03:00:35.127Z The whistle went all the time to warn camel drivers, who also use the roadbed, and I did not see any other road for them to travel. Our Caughnawagas in Egypt a narrative of what was seen and accomplished by the contingent of North American Indian voyageurs who led the British boat Expedition for the Relief of Khartoum up the Cataracts of the Nile. Programmed modernization includes improving roadbeds, ties, and track to achieve a higher load-bearing capacity. Area Handbook for Bulgaria In constructing a gravel road the roadbed should first be brought to the proper grade. The Future of Road-making in America The Midland could make up no time between the Missouri and the Minneconjou, so light was the roadbed, so heavy the traffic, so many the stops. A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade The old road which this paving was to follow in a general way contained many sharp curves and had a roadbed not eighteen feet wide on the average. Third Biennial Report of the Oregon State Highway Commission Covering the Period December 1st, 1916 to November 30th, 1918 2011-02-23T03:00:35.127Z The inhabitants were making a roadbed for a new railway at a spot where the job was extraordinary, requiring an uncommonly large proportion of brain to brawn in the work. Eleven Possible Cases I might not have even then returned to a realization of outward things had I not heard the sound of voices and the patter of unshod hoofs on the roadbed. The Portal of Dreams In putting on the metal, particularly on narrow roads, the roadbed should be "set high;" it will soon get "flat enough." The Future of Road-making in America We checked out at the airlock and drove out to the spaceport over the sand-filled roadbed that no amount of work ever kept clean. Noble Redman This construction was a five per cent development to eliminate the heavy grades and narrow roadbed of the former road. Third Biennial Report of the Oregon State Highway Commission Covering the Period December 1st, 1916 to November 30th, 1918 2011-02-23T03:00:35.127Z He says that the Egyptians constructed a solid road sixty feet wide of polished stone from the quarry in the Lybian mountains and over this smooth roadbed dragged or rolled the huge blocks. A Trip to the Orient The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise It also shocked the nervous system too violently, when the arms alone bore the weight of the body, as was natural when the wheel leaped and bumped over the uneven roadbed. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 The foundation to receive the metal, if the natural roadbed is not used and the bed is of soft earth, should be rolled until it is hard and compact. The Future of Road-making in America Its engineers must have laid the roadbed out with a ruler. Combat While most of the roadbed will be entirely new work, it will not be of heavy construction, the country being comparatively flat. Third Biennial Report of the Oregon State Highway Commission Covering the Period December 1st, 1916 to November 30th, 1918 2011-02-23T03:00:35.127Z Mainly it followed the survey of the railroad, which was to be extended to Meander, and along which men and teams were busy even then, throwing up the roadbed. Claim Number One He had left Cartagena early that morning on the ramshackle little train which, after hours of jolting over an undulating roadbed, set him down in Calamar, exhausted with the heat and dust-begrimed. Carmen Ariza After the roadbed has been thoroughly prepared, if made of loam or clay, it should be rolled and made as hard and compact as possible. The Future of Road-making in America The soft earth of the roadbed was now a mere quagmire, through which the horses laboriously dragged the wagons hub deep in mud. A Captain in the Ranks A Romance of Affairs Considerable bridging is required and a gravel surface provided throughout the entire length to insure an all year road, so the cost of even this narrow roadbed will be high. Third Biennial Report of the Oregon State Highway Commission Covering the Period December 1st, 1916 to November 30th, 1918 2011-02-23T03:00:35.127Z He saw them leave the cars at the end of the broken line and take up their march in a rough column of fours along the roadbed. The Shepherd of the North Yet it cost the country only two thousand dollars a mile, as against the forty thousand dollars a mile which the two transcontinental railways spent later on their roadbeds along the canyon. The Cariboo Trail A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia Then take the spikes out of the roller wheels, and, with sprinkling and rolling, the roadbed can be repaired and made like a new road. The Future of Road-making in America Cracks are left between sections of the roadbed in cement auto highways. Common Science R. R. & N. Co., using about two miles of abandoned railroad roadbed. Third Biennial Report of the Oregon State Highway Commission Covering the Period December 1st, 1916 to November 30th, 1918 2011-02-23T03:00:35.127Z Jeffrey Whiting dropped his gun and, yelling to the men on either side to stay where they were, jumped down into the roadbed and ran to meet the Bishop. The Shepherd of the North One can easily imagine himself on the Northern or Canadian Pacific road, among their giant peaks, hazardous roadbeds, and narrow defiles. Aztec Land The roadbed appears to be almost as solid as a plank road, but is much easier for the teams. The Future of Road-making in America The gap through the mountains looked familiar as I spied it from the distance, but the roadbed to the right I had forgotten. Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail With a smooth roadbed, and with nothing to cause drifting, it is thought that the maintenance on this account will be negligible. Third Biennial Report of the Oregon State Highway Commission Covering the Period December 1st, 1916 to November 30th, 1918 2011-02-23T03:00:35.127Z The Bishop, taking Jeffrey Whiting with him, walked slowly back down the roadbed. The Shepherd of the North The waxy clay of the roadbed had recently been wetted by a shower; the walking, consequently, was none of the best. Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo A layer of broken stone is then placed on the roadbed from five to eight inches in depth, depending upon the thickness to be given the finished road. The Future of Road-making in America The carriage jounced over the roadbed as though the horses were moving at a gallop. The Web of the Golden Spider Then one day they went down to the ruined city, riding in a small car over a roadbed so loosely made that Rafael laughed about it, and Edith said it was only a toy journey. Rafael in Italy A Geographical Reader He fairly counted the seconds as he shot forward, sprinting to the limit on that slippery, flooded roadbed. Ralph on the Overland Express The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer "I felt a few bumps, and I thought we had just struck a poor spot in the roadbed." Joe Strong on the Trapeze or The Daring Feats of a Young Circus Performer A rolling road is not objectionable, and besides there is no better roadbed for laying on metal than the hard crust formed by ordinary travel. The Future of Road-making in America “Does that look like business?” he inquired, as 104 they proceeded down the roadbed. Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail Equalizers steadied the motion of the engine by distributing the shock received by any one wheel or axle to all the other wheels and axles so connected, thus minimizing the effects of an uneven roadbed. The 'Pioneer': Light Passenger Locomotive of 1851 United States Bulletin 240, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, paper 42, 1964 Presently he turned and spoke to the man: “Put your men at work trueing up the roadbed on the next section back, until further orders.” 'Firebrand' Trevison This foundation supports courses of pitched masonry on its side, and these protect the stone or gravel embankment, which forms a roadbed. Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 When the road passes through villages and towns the grading should reduce the roadbed to a grade as nearly level as possible. The Future of Road-making in America It was unsteady, indicating the uncertain character of the roadbed. Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail They landed beside the roadbed, and the cars went on without them. The Bradys Beyond Their Depth The Great Swamp Mystery He worked at the lever and touched the 202 valve, and then leaped from his post to the roadbed. Chasing an Iron Horse Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War His drive down High Street in the afternoon had left a trail of glory over the earthen roadbed. Virginia Care should be taken to keep the stone set up perpendicular with the roadbed and set lengthwise across the road with joints broken. The Future of Road-making in America Little squads of men were busily employed here and there grading a roadbed, and the telegraph line was strung over the entire territory. Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail The roadbed was composed of boulders, which, being round, made rough riding, and so muddy, too! Some Reminiscences of old Victoria His simplicity was cunning, for the blue hills offered more avenues of disappearance than the iron roadbed of the local transportation. The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play The challenge posed by the American roadbed was met by American mechanics. Introduction of the Locomotive Safety Truck Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology: Paper 24 This finish should also be rolled and made uniform, so that, in order that the water may pass off freely, there will be no obstruction between the stone roadbed and side ditches. The Future of Road-making in America We’ll spin along at a fine rate, I tell you, for the roadbed is splendid.” Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail Right over there"—pointing to the side of the roadbed, in the snow—"a 'flyin' Dutchman' came down last week, after being chased by a French plane. The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 The level margins of these lakes are roadbeds for many miles of railway track; in many instances the railways are built on the tops of terraces that once were shores of the lakes. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges At one moment an undue amount of weight would fall upon the truck because the drivers were over a depression in the roadbed. Introduction of the Locomotive Safety Truck Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology: Paper 24 The rolling not only consolidates the material, but puts the roadbed in proper shape for travel immediately. The Future of Road-making in America The brush had been cleared away, the ground leveled, here and there some rudely cut ties set in place, and for an extended stretch there was a presentable graded roadbed. Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail The concrete mixer travels along the prepared roadbed, and after it follow the workmen with levelers and stamps. Diggers in the Earth The roadbed was execrable, the trucks of the cars were without springs, and to me it seemed as if we must leave the rails at any moment. Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude They were characterized by inferior roadbeds, steep grades, sharp curves, and rough track. Introduction of the Locomotive Safety Truck Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology: Paper 24 Callahan and Blood did the talking, but when they left the flooded roadbed and Glover took a way up the ca�on wall it became apparent what the mountain engineer's long legs were for. The Daughter of a Magnate Some twenty men and boys were working on a roadbed, which had been cut for over two miles. Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail As he said this he thrust his head out the open window, and peering ahead, he studied the roadbed. Jack Wright and His Electric Stage; or, Leagued Against the James Boys This meant changing the roadbed of the Santa Fe & Disneyland R.R. Question of Comfort In spring, poor drainage and lack of ballast might cause the track to sink into the soggy roadbed and produced an unstable path. Introduction of the Locomotive Safety Truck Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology: Paper 24 Ties, steel, ballast, riprap, roadbed, were gone, and where the heavy construction had run below the paw of Sleepy Cat the river was churning in a channel ten feet deep. The Daughter of a Magnate Ralph remembered going over this route once—rusted rails, sinking roadbed, watery wastes at places flooding the tracks. Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail He swung to the ground and examined the dusty roadbed. The Highgrader Thank God for the rocks—we'd had to import them: the soil in Orange County is fine for oranges, but too soft for train roadbeds. Question of Comfort In winter this same roadbed could freeze into a hard and unyielding pavement on which the rolling stock was pounded to pieces. Introduction of the Locomotive Safety Truck Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology: Paper 24 At the upper and lower ends of the track where the roadbed had not completely disappeared the full force of section men, backed by the irrigation laborers, were busy patching the holes. The Daughter of a Magnate When the Boston and Providence Road was constructed this mistake was not repeated and a flexible wooden roadbed was laid. Steve and the Steam Engine For some minutes the sound of the wheels grinding against the disintegrated granite of the roadbed came back to Jack and the two guards who remained with him. The Highgrader On the other side of the track was a deep ravine, dropping abruptly from the roadbed. Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles The brief storm had been a severe one, and in one spot the roadbed was considerably washed out. The Rover Boys on the Farm or Last Days at Putnam Hall The roadbed is chiselled out of the granite all along here. The Daughter of a Magnate He had pointed to a plank one end of which, in some manner, had become torn up from the roadbed. The Rover Boys on a Hunt or The Mysterious House in the Woods Yesterday I noticed many women working on the roadbed of the railway. Face to Face with Kaiserism When he had buttoned it and turned up the collar he locked arms with her and together they hopped up the roadbed till they had to stop finally, out of breath with exertion and laughter. Every Man for Himself We often make ninety miles an hour over the standard gauge roadbed, that equals any in this country. The Life and Adventures of Nat Love Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick" As I rolled southward in the train—"jerked" would be a fitter word; the roadbeds of western Virginia are anything but level—I strove to recall my old time impressions of Four-Pools Plantation. The Four Pools Mystery It is valuable as a building stone and as ballast for roadbeds and foundations. An Elementary Study of Chemistry But inside the street car, though the air was stifling, and large, heedless grown-ups crushed him with each jolt of the uneven roadbed, his spirits rose buoyantly. A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life New bird notes came twittering from the bushes on all sides, while frisky cotton-tails scampered ahead of them on the roadbed. Every Man for Himself Some of the washouts were a mile in length and with the tracks had gone the roadbed. The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado Flying to the roadbed, which had a plentiful supply of loose stone on it, he began a fusillade on the enemy below that drove the whole horde from the raft into the river. Watch Yourself Go By The cut of the roadbed forms a base for the remainder of the snow. The White Desert Spacious flag-stone sidewalks are taking the place of the rough pavements of horrible memory, and macadamized roadbeds help one to climb the steep hill-sides of Constantinople. History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. They increase the life of certain kinds of improved highways by protecting the roadbed from the direct heat of the sun. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twelfth Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, October 6 and 7, 1921 There was not only the tremendous loss due to the loss of tracks, roadbed and bridges, but also the loss of passenger and freight revenues. The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado She decided that the Gilbert sort made a fetich of comfort and missed most of the landscape of life in their excessive attention to the roadbed. One Woman's Life General MacArthur telegraphed to Union, the terminus of the field-railway, but the answer came that no assistance could be given for several hours, as the roadbed had first to be repaired. Banzai! by Parabellum He brushed some adhering particles of roadbed off himself and, facing us, made a megaphone of his hands and sent a message after our diminishing shapes. Roughing it De Luxe The railroad is of the genus known as narrow-gauge; the roadbed was not constructed on the principles laid down by the Romans. Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour Moreover, the94 roadbed was very uneven, and the cars rocked from side to side as they rolled between the hills towards Bramley, where the young folks were to get off. Dave Porter at Star Ranch Or, The Cowboy's Secret The roadbed was good, however, and when the section men came in at six that night they reported the track firm and safe. Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers But he knew just how fast those few remaining miles of open roadbed would be spanned. Then I'll Come Back to You The natural overland highways throughout the country, especially those intersecting the watercourses and now used as the roadbeds for our great transcontinental railways, were not originally discovered by man at all. The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure The boat had reached dead water, and was moving over the submerged roadbed, and groping betwixt the stems of great pecan-trees,—the great pecan-trees which stood sentinel on the river borders of his estate. Old Kaskaskia It is now a project on graded roadbed. The Canadian Commonwealth The usual hand holes and other accessories were built and the road operated on this timber roadbed. The New York Subway Its Construction and Equipment The short cut would save fifty miles of roadbed and avoid some heavy grades, but it would leave the town of Willowby twenty-five miles from the railroad. Added Upon A Story The gambler caught at the rail, missed it, landed on the cinders beside the roadbed, was flung instantly from his feet, and rolled over and over down an incline to a muddy gully. The Big-Town Round-Up Thanks to the milestones placed at the side of the roadbed he was able to keep count of the miles he walked. Bob Chester's Grit From Ranch to Riches The Canadian Pacific is not double tracking its roadbed to the Coast for nothing. The Canadian Commonwealth The retaining walls were moved bodily on slides, by means of jacks, to a line 6-1/4 feet on each side, widening the roadbed 12-1/2 feet, without a break in either wall. The New York Subway Its Construction and Equipment Slowly these stretches of loveliness were being turned into dreary levels of sand for the roadbed of a trolley. The House of the Misty Star A Romance of Youth and Hope and Love in Old Japan Then the boys went to the roadbed to await the coming of the train. Injun and Whitey to the Rescue In the meantime, the object of their thoughts was hurrying as rapidly as he could over the rough roadbed. Bob Chester's Grit From Ranch to Riches Then we saw the flicker of lights down the track, and toward us came a small army of labourers who had been clearing the roadbed between us and Woodvale. John Henry Smith A Humorous Romance of Outdoor Life Along the sunny sidewalks passed with jaunty tread an ever-hurrying procession of stylishly clad men and women; and along the roadbed sped an array of private carriages conducted by coachmen in livery. Unleavened Bread The nature of her mission gives her strength to travel over the rough roadbed with incredible speed. The Transgressors Story of a Great Sin You have to grade your own roadbed, and must yourself lay the rails over which your ideas in trains of thought will be carried to the minds of other men. Certain Success The roadbed was so blocked that it might be several days before the way would be opened to Cliffdale. Betty Gordon at Mountain Camp Willis Thornton Displays His Pluck Train No. 6 on the D. & P.W., two hours late at Limon, was rushing and jolting along over its rickety roadbed. Buffalo Roost The entire roadbed, from beginning to end, was cut in the solid rock. Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891 As she reaches the roadbed the express rumbles over the trestle. The Transgressors Story of a Great Sin I used the roadbed going to and from the Matanuska Valley. The Rim of the Desert Rearward they could scarcely mark the roadbed, so drifted over was it. Betty Gordon at Mountain Camp There was no place but the bottom of the notch, and that was barely wide enough for the roadbed. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians The railroad was a good one and well built on a roadbed of gravel and chips of granite, with solid heart pine or chestnut ties, laid with "T" rails. History of Kershaw's Brigade At the bridge the roadbed terminates and a trestle carries the tracks for a distance of fifteen yards. The Transgressors Story of a Great Sin An electric spark has touched off a charge of giant powder under the roadbed. The Young Engineers in Colorado Or, At Railwood Building in Earnest Darrin bent down over a soft spot in the soil close to the railway roadbed. The High School Left End Dick & Co. Grilling on the Football Gridiron Improvements in roadbed, rails, cars, engines, and other equipment soon reduced greatly the cost of conducting traffic on the main lines of roads. Modern Economic Problems Economics Volume II That night the roadbed of the railroad was dynamited on both sides of town. Jim Waring of Sonora-Town Tang of Life From the roadbed of a railway to the bedside of a man about to die was indeed a change which might have taxed the adaptability of a more versatile being. A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography The rails have been blown skyward and a big hole torn out of the roadbed itself. The Young Engineers in Colorado Or, At Railwood Building in Earnest This they did, but the roadbed was hard. The High School Left End Dick & Co. Grilling on the Football Gridiron The roadbed was raised from six to ten feet above the ordinary level of the country, and was 30 feet wide on top. Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887 This place we soon reached over a good but steep roadbed. Out of Doors—California and Oregon This road's in rotten shape, especially as concerns the roadbed. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 If you can spare time wish you would ride down track to point about two miles west of Miller's where brook crosses under roadbed. The Young Engineers in Colorado Or, At Railwood Building in Earnest Mr. Bradley pressed them close with questions, but neither boy was inclined to reveal the secret of the trail along the railway roadbed. The High School Left End Dick & Co. Grilling on the Football Gridiron The roadbed of the St. Petersburg and Moscow Railway was made 30 feet wide on top, for a double track of 5 foot gauge, with a gravel ballasting two feet deep. Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887 We're spending a hundred thousand there, and millions along the line, that we may have the smoothest roadbed in the world when we're done, and the quickest route from sea to sea. The Hunted Woman Tom turned back the controller handle, but watched with eager eyes for a sign that the roadbed was harder, so that he could increase speed. Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout, or, the Speediest Car on the Road "I'll have the blast against the roadbed here ready in five minutes, Black." The Young Engineers in Colorado Or, At Railwood Building in Earnest The bridge seemed longer than it had ever seemed before, and he was glad when he felt the beat of the wheels on the solid roadbed again. Alexander's Bridge Myriad leaf shadows danced on the black roadbed, level as a barn floor, and across it trailed the wavering image of hawk and vulture, gull and white sea swallow. Her Father's Daughter He had hardly begun to wonder what he might find next, when, there, just a little way off, he saw a pearl lying in the roadbed. Stories from the Old Attic Andrew saw a figure throw up its arms, a shadow form in the interior of the car, and then a man pitched out headlong through the doorway and flopped with horrible limpness on the roadbed. Way of the Lawless With the roadbed gone at this point also, he did not see the slightest chance for the S.B. The Young Engineers in Colorado Or, At Railwood Building in Earnest Heavy rails were accompanied by improved roadbeds, heavier equipment and greater speed. The United States Since the Civil War The roadbed is very rough and the passengers are considerably shaken up, but the memory of what used to be helps to mitigate the discomfort. Santo Domingo A Country with a Future The roadbed was torn to pieces, ruts knee-high; the stones, washed loose of soil, ringing to the blow of a moving hoof. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California It looked vast as a mountain as it came, rocking perceptibly on the uneven roadbed. Way of the Lawless The opposition can make it plain enough that your crowd dynamited its own roadbed through a well-founded fear that the tracks clear through weren't strong enough to stand the passing of a train. The Young Engineers in Colorado Or, At Railwood Building in Earnest The roadbed became more solid, and they trotted along freely. The Gray Dawn The road along the northern bank of the Yaque is the better of the two, since the roadbed is good and there are few rivers to cross. Santo Domingo A Country with a Future This was a modern rock-ballasted, double-tracked roadbed, which accounted in part for the rapidity and ease of the troop movements these last months. The World Decision Although the night was dark, the roadbed was firm and Midnight surefooted. The Fourth Watch "And I'm willing enough to take it, sir, if you don't run trains over the Man-killer until the new roadbed has stood tests that I'll put upon it." The Young Engineers in Arizona Laying Tracks on the Man-killer Quicksand Slav, Swede, Pole, Italian, Greek—they read in a language foreign to them that men are wanted on the farms in the Dakotas, in the lumber camps, on the roadbeds in Montana. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago The long thoroughfare lined with rotting wooden houses and squalid brick saloons was alive with people that swarmed over the roadbed like insects. The Web of Life It made a hole the size of one's little finger in the hard, gravelly path beside the roadbed. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton The roadbed was something more than a streak of rust and something less than a railway. My Life and Work None, except that your watchmen will do their best to guard both the line of roadbed and the camp. The Young Engineers in Arizona Laying Tracks on the Man-killer Quicksand They will call him Ole or Pat or Jim in some camp in the Dakotas or along some roadbed in Montana. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago From the remains of the roadbed projected sharp flints and rocks, among which the broncos picked their way. The Claim Jumpers A loose tree-trunk that formed the roadbed of the bridge had jerked the steering wheel from the driver's hands. Sketches of the East Africa Campaign Lefty craned his neck from the door, studying the roadbed, but at that moment the locomotive topped the little rise and the whole train lurched forward. Gunman's Reckoning Apparently the Man-killer had done its worst and had been balked, a seemingly secure roadbed now resting on the once treacherous quicksand. The Young Engineers in Arizona Laying Tracks on the Man-killer Quicksand The roadbed was formed of four distinct layers, placed above the foundation. Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. But we saw wagon tracks in the soft roadbed and followed these along the road and through a big field. Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane A railroad must maintain its roadbed, depots, and terminals whether one or an hundred trains are run, and whether freight or passenger cars run empty or full. Problems in American Democracy But Donnegan had leaped clear of the roadbed, and he struck almost to the knees in a drift of sand. Gunman's Reckoning For two weeks the laborers had been working on the roadbed now running over the Man-killer. The Young Engineers in Arizona Laying Tracks on the Man-killer Quicksand Detours were common—testimony to man's inherent optimism—but each was worse than the other, the roadbeds everywhere were rutted, torn, broken up as if from long-continued heavy shell fire. Flowing Gold By jerking his head to one side he had caused the mountain boy's fist to strike the hard roadbed instead of Tad's head. The Pony Rider Boys in Montana Or, the Mystery of the Old Custer Trail It was a strange sensation to be hanging thus between earth and sky: to feel that the only thing between life and death was about three feet of roadbed, and four "non- skid" tires. Reno — a Book of Short Stories and Information Considering the fact that it was night, that the train was bucking furiously over the old roadbed, Lefty had a not altogether simple task before him. Gunman's Reckoning Mr. Hazelton and I can soon satisfy ourselves as to whether the roadbed has sagged at any point along the way. The Young Engineers in Arizona Laying Tracks on the Man-killer Quicksand She stood on the platform and looked gloomily back over the long stretch of roadbed. The Flyers After the frost is out, the earth settled, and the winter covering raked off, the soil under the spring sun grows hard, and by June is almost as solid as a roadbed. The Home Acre Time after time she paused at the lofty windows to look upon the trees, the little river and the white roadbed far below. Castle Craneycrow Down by the water's edge I found that the bridge had shifted fully six inches out of line with the roadbed. True to Himself : or Roger Strong's Struggle for Place Our roadbed may be all right for a fortnight, and may seem as safe as we could wish it to be. The Young Engineers in Arizona Laying Tracks on the Man-killer Quicksand As far as the eye could reach stretched the roadbed and its telegraph poles, finally disappearing in the haze of the morning. The Flyers Today, but few overland express trains, hauled by giant locomotives over heavy steel rails on a rock-ballasted roadbed average more than thirty miles per hour between the Missouri and the Pacific Coast. The Story of the Pony Express The coal wagons drove over this crude roadbed so successfully that certain proprietors started constructing special planked roadways from the mines to the river mouth. The Railroad Builders; a chronicle of the welding of the states The spread rails had merely switched the train off the track onto the level of the highway roadbed into the flat field. The Sleuth of St. James's Square "But I don't see how the Man-killer can ever again assert himself against the A. G. & N. M.'s roadbed." The Young Engineers in Arizona Laying Tracks on the Man-killer Quicksand On the fourth day they struck a blinding snow-storm, while ascending the dreary plateau that henceforward for six hundred miles was to be their roadbed. The Story of a Mine The roadbed soon left the Shinano plain, across which peered the opposite peaks, still hooded with snow, and wound up through a narrow valley, to emerge at last upon a broad plateau. Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan The roadbed showed little improvement over the mine tramways of the eighteenth century, and the rails were only long wooden stringers with strap iron nailed on top. The Railroad Builders; a chronicle of the welding of the states "Yes, Miss Warfield," replied the man, "it's supposed to be, but every roadbed gets a spread rail sometimes." The Sleuth of St. James's Square At the end of the first half mile, the horrible roadbed began to take toll of the elderly tires. Further Adventures of Lad The wind, which instantly attacked them as they reached the level, seemed to make the driver's theory plausible, and for half a mile the roadbed was swept clean, and frozen hard. The Story of a Mine Bill is all to the psychopathic about her; and me?—well, you saw me plating the roadbed of the Great Maroon Way with silver to-night. Strictly business: more stories of the four million Consequently he favored opening up the property more extensively in the soft coal fields of Ohio and Indiana, reconstructing roadbeds, laying extra tracks, and eliminating grades and curves. The Railroad Builders; a chronicle of the welding of the states My men pump me to town on the roadbed of the Northern. Bucky O'Connor "An electric locomotive that can make two miles a minute over a properly ballasted roadbed might not be an impossibility," said Mr. Barton Swift ruminatively. Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails He could tell, of course, the nature of the roadbed. The Adventures of Jimmie Dale The gravel of the roadbed, The metal of the gun, The engine of the airship Trace somehow from the sun. The Congo and Other Poems As compared with the old Richmond Terminal aggregation with its broken-down rails and roadbed, poor equipment, and miserable service, the modern Southern Railway system shows startling changes. The Railroad Builders; a chronicle of the welding of the states |
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