An abandoned segment of the Lehigh Valley Railroad lies within the village along the Lehigh River, including an abandoned switch yard where the village meets Hokendauqua just north of the Pine Street bridge.
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The two transmission lines that run from the Palo Verde Switch Yard, west of Phoenix, to California have a capacity of about 2, 700 megawatts, and most of the transportation capacity is already committed.
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Power evacuation from the switch yard of the power station was planned with step-up substation equipped with three-phase step-up transformers and evacuated through double circuit 132 kV transmission lines connecting Cachi with the Rio Macho power plant.
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A lifelong train enthusiast, Fowler spent childhood summers in the switch yards of the Pennsylvania Railroad and in 1973 rode the steam-powered Trans-Siberian Railroad the 1, 500 miles ( 2, 400 kilometers ) from Khabarovsk to Moscow.
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However, at 8 : 03 a . m ., a rail car loaded with aircraft bombs exploded in the southern part of the Southern Pacific's Roseville switch yard destroying the general store and damaging most of the homes.
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The economic possibilities that came with the railroad caused business leaders in Pekin to be very interested to pull the switch yard closer and get the new " railroad people " with steady work and good pay in their town.
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At this time Ontario Central Airlines, owned by Barney Lamb, established a maintenance facility in the old roundhouse for its fleet of amphibious charter aircraft . The old switch yard was used as a landing strip for wheel aircraft after the tracks had been pulled.
