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  • National Railroad Passenger Corporation v. Boston & Maine Corp., 503 U.S. 407 (1992), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled...
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    The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak (/ˈæmtræk/; reporting marks AMTK, AMTZ), is the national passenger railroad company...
    146 KB (13,998 words) - 22:44, 3 June 2024
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    Bellows Falls station (category Former Boston and Maine Railroad stations)
    Connecticut River Line in Massachusetts. After National Railroad Passenger Corp. v. Boston & Maine Corp. upheld Amtrak's right to seize the Vermont section...
    21 KB (2,153 words) - 00:15, 29 May 2024
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    Farwell v. Boston & Worcester R.R. Corp, 45 Mass. 49 (Mass. 1842), Massachusetts Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw used a contract rationale to prevent a railroad worker...
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    Montrealer (train) (category Named passenger trains of Canada)
    matter went all the way to the Supreme Court in National Railroad Passenger Corp. v. Boston & Maine Corp., which upheld Amtrak's action. Led by U.S. Senator...
    20 KB (1,962 words) - 01:51, 29 May 2024
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    Transportation Center at South Station, is the largest railroad station and intercity bus terminal in Greater Boston and New England's second-largest transportation...
    38 KB (3,726 words) - 21:21, 20 May 2024
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    and passenger traffic galvanized Congress to quickly create a bill to nationalize the bankrupt railroads. The Association of American Railroads, which...
    49 KB (4,692 words) - 04:48, 18 May 2024
  • Gibson Boulevard Southeast in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Liebeck was in the passenger's seat of a 1989 Ford Probe, which did not have cup holders. Her grandson...
    30 KB (3,129 words) - 04:07, 27 May 2024
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    Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co., 248 N.Y. 339, 162 N.E. 99 (1928), is a leading case in American tort law on the question of liability to an unforeseeable...
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    passenger train service with the inaugural run of the Best Friend of Charleston in 1830. Another early predecessor, the Richmond & Danville Railroad (R&D)...
    74 KB (6,905 words) - 14:46, 24 May 2024
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    Pan Am Railways (category United States railroad holding companies)
    primarily made up of former Class II regional railroads such as Boston and Maine Corporation, Maine Central Railroad Company, Portland Terminal Company, and...
    25 KB (2,539 words) - 10:11, 30 April 2024
  • fleet of historic wooden passenger coaches. It hosts 300,000 visitors per year. The Strasburg Rail Road is one of the few railroads in the U.S. sometimes...
    58 KB (4,617 words) - 19:53, 1 June 2024
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    national network of passenger trains from private railroads after years of dropping ridership and massive deficits force railroads to drop passenger service...
    32 KB (4,010 words) - 03:41, 4 November 2023
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    in 1881 from the merger of several smaller railways ("railroads" in American English). Passenger service in North Jersey was offered until 1966. The railway...
    71 KB (3,650 words) - 00:11, 18 May 2024
  • First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti, 435 U.S. 765 (1978), is a U.S. constitutional law case which defined the free speech right of corporations...
    59 KB (6,908 words) - 22:14, 13 April 2024
  • Clamdigger (train) (category Passenger trains of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad)
    OCLC 1094744. Killian, Robert A.; et al. (January 19, 1972). "WOOD v. NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER CORP". 341 F.Supp. 908 (1972). Retrieved July 13, 2016. "Last...
    14 KB (1,175 words) - 20:51, 31 October 2023
  • A passenger train running from Jinan to Guangzhou derailed after colliding with debris on the track due to a landslide in Hunan Province. A railroad police...
    98 KB (9,447 words) - 22:57, 31 May 2024
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    railroad-development-corp-in-guatemala-dispute.html?sword_listlist[]=guatemala&no_cache=1 "Guatemala passenger revival plan – Railway...
    18 KB (1,633 words) - 09:46, 30 May 2024
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    industries in central New Hampshire, in the United States. In 1975, the Boston & Maine Railroad Corporation filed to abandon its 73-mile (117 km) "White Mountain...
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  • and in the national origins of the engineers and managers who built the inaugural rail infrastructure. An example is the term railroad, used (but not...
    195 KB (23,452 words) - 06:46, 12 May 2024
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