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Alton Pacific Railroad 1984

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Updated: 18 Jan 2013

Alton Pacific Railroad was in Humboldt County California in 1984. It was near the intersection of highway 101 and highway 36. This historic train ride is a m...

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Railroad grinding in alton iowa

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Updated: 31 Aug 2013

This just went by 8:56pm

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Amtrak & Union Pacific Railroad. Alton Illinois - November 4th, 2008

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Updated: 06 Jan 2013

At Alton Illinois' Amtrak station on the Union Pacific Springfield sub main line we see a Northbound Amtrak arrive and a northbound UP freight. This is the p...

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Steam Gala 70000 Britannia departs Alton Railway Station MHR

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Updated: 26 Oct 2013

taken fron the window of a waiting train in Alton loop here you see 70000 Britannia passing

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CN 2566 East at 21st St / Alton Jct, Chicago, 30.08.11

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Duration: 3:54
Updated: 10 Nov 2011

A Canadian National manifest from Iowa moves up the Chicago Subdivision towards the St Charles Air Line at 16th Street Tower, beyond which it will curve sout...

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Mid Hants Alton siddings southbound june 2013

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Updated: 23 Jun 2013

Mid Hants Railways sidding just outside alton railway station

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The Lost Rides Of Alton Towers Part 11 - Park Railway

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Updated: 23 Jun 2013

Watch part 12 - Doom & Sons here http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg9kf4f1c_0 . The Railway was constructed at Alton Towers shortly after the park reopened to t...

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34046 Braunton and 34007 Wadebridge light loco move to Alton

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Updated: 26 Oct 2013

34007 - SR West Country Class 'Wadebridge' West Country Class 34046 Braunton. light engine move back to Alton Railway Station to collect train

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MHR Diesel Gala Class 08 brake van Alton Sidings 08377 returning to Station

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Updated: 27 Apr 2013

During the Mid Hants Railways Diesel Gala up at Alton Railway Station a Class 08 Shunter pushes a GWR Brake van back to the Station After giving the brake va...

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The Most Haunted town in America- Alton, IL

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Updated: 13 Aug 2013

Today we journey 250 Miles from my home and back to the 1800s to visit the most haunted town in America. Alton,IL. It has a dark history involving slavery, t...

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Alton OO Southern Railway Perth W.A 2011 Model Railway Exhibition

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Updated: 01 Jul 2013

Alton OO Scale layout at the Perth 2011 Model Railway Exhibition, Western Australia built by the Southern Modellers' Group of WA.

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ALTON1.wmv

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Duration: 9:07
Updated: 27 Apr 2012

Lionel 6-31704 The Alton Limited set. A Pacific (4-6-2) engine #659 of the Chicago and Alton railroad. The set includes a combine, two coaches and an observa...

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Mid Hants Steam Gala Alton Freight and Passenger combo

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Duration: 4:59
Updated: 26 Oct 2013

West Country Class 34046 Braunton. and 34007 - SR West Country Class 'Wadebridge' departs out of Alton Railway Station and straight after 45379 - LMS Black 5 pulls into the stations sidings straight after

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Alton to Alresford at 1000MPH on the Mid Hants Railway

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Updated: 01 May 2013

View from the cab of the DMMU service on 09 April 2011 from Alton to Alresford on the Mid Hants Railway. Footage has been speeded up to top speed of 1000MPH!

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Perth Model Railway Show -- Alton and Nonsuch - 03-06-2012

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Duration: 4:39
Updated: 04 Jul 2013

Alton is an OO scale layout of Alton Station in Hampshire round 1935-1960. The display is from the Southern Modellers Group (Clive Whitehead on 08 9450 6984)...

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David's trains at the Alton Model Railway Show

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Updated: 17 Aug 2012

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'Roundhouse' HO scale layout at Alton Show 2012

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Updated: 29 Mar 2012

Taken at the Alton Model railway show in February 2012.

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Class 50 'Lion' leaving Alton Station and Siddings Mid Hants Railway

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Updated: 14 Jul 2013

Steam services cancelled in hot weather at the Watercress line due to fire risk, resulting in running of Class 50 and Thumper mid Hants unit 1125 on weekend ...

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AMRA Model Railway Show 2012 Perth WA - Alton by SRMGWA

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Duration: 6:50
Updated: 21 Jun 2012

The Southern Railway Modellers Group (WA) 2012 layout at Claremont Showgrounds, Various periods of the Southern Railway/ Region motive power and rolling stoc...

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AMRA Model Railway Show 2010 Perth WA - Alton by SRMG(WA)

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Duration: 3:25
Updated: 29 Jun 2012

The Southern Railway Modellers Group (WA) layout at the 2010 AMRA Perth Model Railway Exhibition. SRMG(WA) models various periods of the long history of the ...

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rolling down the new rebuilt highspeed line in Illinois

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Duration: 0:53
Updated: 03 Aug 2013

I was bored so I did this video several months ago from the back of a Private Railcar the Royal Street this is a look at the New Improvements to the Highspee...

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WAND Ghost Stories: Haunted Alton Pt. 1

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Duration: 2:26
Updated: 30 Oct 2013

SOME CONSIDER IT ONE OF THE MOST HAUNTED SMALL TOWNS IN AMERICA... A STOP ON THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, A HISTORY OF INCARCERATION ... AND MASSIVE CASUALTIES. TODAY WE EXPLORE THE HAUNTED SIDE OF ALTON ON TOUR...WITH YOUR WAND GHOST STORIES. IT'S A TYPICAL FRIDAY NIGHT IN OCTOBER... nat DOZENS WAITING TO EXPERIENCE... we've seen things, we've heard things, we've actually seen doors open and close by themselves, lights turn on and on, voices, people have seen figures... THE PARANORMAL... it's had a really long, very strange history. THE CITY OF ALTON...SITTING ON THE BANKS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER history that included cholera and smallpox epidemics, a civil war prison, murder, disease, death, i mean, it's been a pretty rough town over the years.. THAT'S TROY TAYLOR...HE'S WRITTEN HUNDREDS OF BOOKS... i was always fascinated with the stories ON THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT. but i took an interest in trying to track down whether there was any truth to the stories, and that's when i started running into some strange things. THINGS LIKE... there's about a 30 foot tunnel down there and that leads to the carriage house... THE BASEMENT OF A FORMER TUBERCULOSIS SANITARIUM... so when they brought the runaway slaves into the carriage house AND STOP ON THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD... they'd bring 'em through here... HE SAYS IS ONE OF THE MOST HAUNTED PLACES IN THE CITY. i've always considered it to be a really active place. (nat) - going down FOR SOME... need to go out? yeah... HEADING INTO THE TUNNEL WITH TOUR GUIDE LEN ADAMS WAS TOO MUCH. let me light the way for him...see the door? BUT IT'S HERE... the paranormal things that happen here... we get a lot of black shapes, disembodied voices... LEN SAYS THE LIMESTONE FOUNDATION... these emotions that we give off... it soaks it up like a sponge... and then hold onto it like a battery KEEPS THE ENTITIES FROM BEYOND... we've seen somebody at the opening of the tunnel... (nat-) COMING BACK... (NAT-POP) (TO BE CONTINUED...) TUNE IN TODAY FOR FIRST NEWS AT 4 FOR THE CONCLUSION ... TO SEE WHAT LEN SAYS STILL HAUNTS THE TUNNELS AND WHAT ONE AMATEUR GHOST HUNTER SAYS ... HE CAPTURED ON CAMERA... IN ALTON. AND I WANT TO HEAR YOUR GHOST STORIES. FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER @MARKRIV AND USE THE HASHTAG WAND GHOST STORIES TO SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCE.

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Mid Hants Pairing up class 37s at Alton Railway Station

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Updated: 13 Oct 2013

Mid Hants railways two class 37s at Alton railway station pairing up to double head a train back to Alresford station

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Beyoncé, Obama 'affair' makes headlines

Music News

10 Feb 2014

Beyoncé Knowles alleged affair with US President Barack Obama will not be the subject of an exposé by The Washington Post. The singer and politician were the subject of sensational reports Monday after French photographer Pascal Rostain told French newspaper Le Figaro the world would soon learn of their romance ... The Washington Post subsequently dismissed the claims ... It is legitimate to ask questions....(size: 1.8Kb)

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Muslim men organized in militias with machetes rough up a Christian man while checking him for weapons in the Miskine neighbourhood of Bangui, Central African Republic, Friday Dec. 13, 2013.

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Deadly religious violence rocks CAR

Al Jazeera

10 Feb 2014

New violence and looting in the Central African Republic's capital, Bangui, has left at least nine people dead, including two more lynchings of minority Muslims. The latest assaults in the former French colony included mob attacks and an assassination attempt targeting the former justice minister ... The shooting prompted an angry crowd to shout slogans against the Rwandan soldiers, whom they mistakenly believed to be Muslim ... 571 Source . ... ....(size: 3.6Kb)

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People look at the wreckage of Algerian military transport plane after it slammed into a mountain in the countryâ€™s rugged eastern region, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014

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Algeria Plane Crash: Lone Survivor As 102 Killed

Skynews

11 Feb 2014

A sole survivor has been found after a military transport plane with 103 people on board crashed in Algeria's rugged eastern region. The C-130 Hercules was carrying 99 passengers - soldiers and their families - and four crew members when it slammed into Mount Fertas in Oum El Bouaghi ... ... ....(size: 1.5Kb)

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Coal City, Ill., Awarded Membership in Union Pacific's Train Town USA Registry (UP - Union Pacific Corporation)

noodls

16 Dec 2013

Omaha, Neb., December 16, 2013- Coal City, Ill., has been awarded membership in Union Pacific's Train Town USA Registry as part of Union Pacific's ongoing efforts to highlight cities with a historical connection to the railroad ... Union Pacific launched its Train Town USA Registry as part of the railroad's 150th anniversary celebration in 2012 ... The rail line in Coal City was built by the Chicago & Alton Railroad in 1880....(size: 2.8Kb)

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A corridor of history, from Chicago to LaSalle

STL Today

10 Mar 2013

Barges no longer ply the waters of the old Illinois and Michigan Canal; they haven’t for nearly a century. So today, the venerable 96-mile ditch — which stretches diagonally across Illinois from Lake Michigan at Chicago to the Illinois River at LaSalle — is edged with thick stands of cattails ... In 1852 the Chicago and Alton Railroad was completed and quickly stole most of the canal’s passengers ... By canal boat it took 24 ... ALONG THE CANAL ... ....(size: 6.8Kb)

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Taken aback by a photo from way back

The Los Angeles Times

23 Feb 2013

Her father, Giles Ratkowski, a civil engineer for the Chicago North Alton Railroad, had contracted tuberculosis on a trip to Washington, D.C., where he had gone to testify before Congress about government payments owed for services during World War I ... "One of his friends had already quit the railroad and moved to Glendale, so my father wrote to him for information and we came to California in January of 1925." ... He was never robbed ... 0 ... .....(size: 6.0Kb)

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>SPOTLIGHT: Latinos in McLean Co. highlighted

Seattle Post

08 Nov 2012

His country was going through a revolution while the United States offered the promise of jobs building a railroad line. "There were posters (in Mexico) encouraging workers to come to work on the railroad," said Mary Trunnell, Chavez's granddaughter ... While the father of the family came to work as a craftsman in the Alton railroad car shops, Arthur took advantage of another one of Bloomington's offerings — the American Circus Corp....(size: 3.4Kb)

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SPOTLIGHT: Latinos in McLean Co. highlighted

Dayton Daily News

07 Nov 2012

His country was going through a revolution while the United States offered the promise of jobs building a railroad line ... "Rabbit" Sandoval, a former railroad worker, also linked them to railroad foremen's time books ... While the father of the family came to work as a craftsman in the Alton railroad car shops, Arthur took advantage of another one of Bloomington's offerings — the American Circus Corp....(size: 3.4Kb)

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Chicago Bridges In Black And White (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post

09 Oct 2012

Chicago & Alton Railroad Bridge. This undated photo shows the Chicago & Alton railroad bridge crossing the south branch of the Chicago River with the bridge girders of the I-55/Stevenson Expressway in the foreground.Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Bridge. This undated photo shows the lift span of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad bridge crossing the south branch of the Chicago River....(size: 6.4Kb)

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Chicago's Garfield Ridge community

The Examiner

17 Aug 2012

Related topics. chicago historychicago communitiesChicago neighborhoodsChicago culturesChicago Business. Advertisement ... Its neighborhoods are Garfield Ridge, Le Claire Courts and Sleepy Hollow ... This swampy land prohibited settlement except on a small ridge. In the 1830s to 1850s, travelers journeyed through the area on Archer Avenue, the Illinois and Michigan Canal and the Chicago and Alton Railroad. Col. William B ... Garfield ... Tweet. 0 Email ... ....(size: 7.2Kb)

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Chicago's McKinley Park community

The Examiner

13 Aug 2012

Related topics. chicago historyMcKinley Parkchicago communitiesChicago neighborhoodsChicago culturesChicago Business. Advertisement ... Its only neighborhood is McKinley Park, but the area has had several nicknames—“Canalport”, “Town of the Lake”, “Mt ... The completion of I and M Canal in 1848, and the Chicago & Alton Railroad brought settlers. During the Civil War, industries developed along the Chicago River and railroad ... S ... Tweet. 0 Email....(size: 7.3Kb)

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Architecture A-Z: D is for demolition

Kansas City Star

28 Mar 2012

STEVE PAUL The Chicago & Alton Depot was built in 1879 and moved and restored in the 1990s. Here’s another entry in our elemental, alphabetical guide to Kansas City’s built environment. The feature appears here every other week or so ... Depot. The Chicago & Alton Railroad used this two-story station in Independence beginning in 1879 ... The depot, open to the public, stands by railroad tracks near the National Frontier Trails Museum....(size: 3.8Kb)

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