PPT-CHAPTER 5 THE RAILROAD CAR

The Railroad Car The Essential Parts Car body Bolsters Suspension System Bearings Wheels The 8wheel Car Couplers and air brake hoses Theres more to a coupler than meets the eye Most . Mr. Babcock. 7. th. Grade Social Studies. Westward Expansion and the Mining Booms. A New Gold and Silver Rush. After the gold rush of the 1840s and 1850s came to an end, prospectors began looking in new locations across the West. Industry Comes of Age. Railroads. Iron Colt become and Iron Horse. Railroads in US. 1865: 35,000 miles of track. 1900: 192,556 miles of track. Government. Gave land and grants to railroad companies. Railroad= . SANDY UPDATE - CPOC. April 2014. Superstorm. Sandy. October 2012. Storm Damage. SIGNIFICANT WIND/TREE DAMAGE KNOCKED OUT SERVICE ALONG HARLEM LINE AND NEW HAVEN LINE and the NEW CANAAN AND DANBURY BRANCHES . Coach Duke. Towns that grew up almost overnight around mining sites were known . as. Boomtowns. 2. What . 1862 act passed by congress gave 160 free acres of land to settlers? . Homestead Act. 3. How . Linking East and West. pages 222-226. EQ: How did the telegraph helped Americans communicate? Explain how the transcontinental railroad was built and its effects on the nation?. Vocabulary Preview. Transcontinental: going across a continent. Linking East and West. pages 222-226. EQ: How did the telegraph helped Americans communicate? Explain how the transcontinental railroad was built and its effects on the nation?. Vocabulary Preview. Transcontinental: going across a continent. Railroad Bill, Railroad Bill,. He never worked and never will. He's . gonna. Ride, Ride, ride. Railroad Bill was a mighty bad man, . Shot the light out the brakeman's hand.. They . lookin. ' for that bad Railroad Bill.. Sit at the same group with your partner.. Bell-Ringer. First, the partner who read the . Homestead Act of 1862. should summarize what he/she read and go over the answer to each of the questions to help explain the . Chapter 14: The Second Industrial Revolution. Main idea: During the late 1800s, new technology led to rapid industrial growth and expansion of railroads.. Chapter 14 Section 1: Industry and Railroads. Section 1 – The Growth of Railroads. New Railroad Lines. Texans hoping railroads would spur economic growth.. Moving people & goods was time consuming and expensive. .. . * Texas rivers too shallow & unreliable for shipping.. Gretchen B. Ferguson . LADOTD Statewide Railroad Coordinator. Railroad Surfacing. Detouring Traffic during construction of a Railroad Crossing. Planning of the Construction. Discussions with Railroad . the “Next Moon Shot”. Have you ever heard the term “moonshot?”. Think of a.  . moonshot.  as . “a . complex, large-scale objective that can be accomplished only when teams abandon "business as usual." . Native American Culture in Crisis. The Growth of the Cattle Industry. Settling on the Great Plains. Farmers & the Populist Movement. Native American Culture in Crisis. “Between the 1850s & 1890, settlers flocked to the West in search of . TS-33 September 1974 They are expected to be able to judge the seriousness of the full range of common track and railway defects to plan and lay out all but most complex repairs to determine whether