And because of that, they had saw mills and they would cut their ties, brought them down from the mountains. Pas the Union Pacific coming from the east had to hand cut their ties wherever they could find wood. Not a lot available in many of the areas so they would split them. You can see how they would cut them and bring them out when they could. The Transcontinental Railroad was happening at the end of the victorian age, as you were going into the industrial age. And it was a perfect time for the United States because when that Transcontinental Railroad was completed, it made a major impact in the Industrial Development of this nation. The complete construction took just over it was about six and a half years. So from 1862 to 1869. The time period before they started building the railroad would have been when a lot of people were coming out after the gold rush, silver rush was really taking off. We were also in the middle of the civil war when the act was signed to start this project.
Right now on fox 5 news at 10 00 it is scary out here. Very scary to know you cannot travel safely, and you have to keep your eyes open. Steve well said. A new sense of fear after another series of slashings on the trainance platform. The latest attack happening loon the 3 line in East New York. Dari dan bouwens there is now. Good evening, dan. Reporter dari and steve, this is an elevated subway platform here in East New York where it all started. This is the eighth subwayrelated slashings since the start of the year. They appear to be renlated. They say, it is a big concern. The nypd says, it is on top of this issue. You can see behind me. There is a Police Presence here to evening. They are here now. Reporter some East New York residents happy to see a beefedup Police Presence near the subway station. This after man start a fight with a passenger here later slashing that man in the face. More aware on the train because i ride this train every day. Reporter investigators say it starte
Delivering outcomes. Those kind of case studies will give, i hope, policymakers encouragement to try these kinds of publicprivate partnerships and to be able to move projects forward like we have seen in other markets around the world. Questions from the audience . One more. It has been in the news because of the recent derailment. Had you had positive train control it would have been able to stop before the accident. How are other countries doing . I i mean, do they have it in place . Do you no . Are we the ones lagging behind . Sure. Positive train control is 45 yearold technology. We are dealing with trying to turn a train at 50 Miles Per Hour slower than the cars on i95. A turn that was designed for freight system. We have to separate freight from commercial. Commercial is largely a straight line, and when you look, it really challenges the united states. Are we ready to do mega Scale Engineering Development . In a funding model like in mac 21 that has 27 increments . Were basicall
I was not the chairman when i came up and it is not permanent work. When i became chairman of h. R. Staffing were taken to make sure be redoing more collaborative vacation in psp like are you still advance it not . It is not within right now. It is in part in the spirit it is completely positive and we have been working with Stakeholder Community through an Advisory Panel on the issue of the single window and imports. We are running a pilot that will come out in a few and we are trying to get it right. We are having this exact collaborations. Okay, my time is out. Ive got one other question, but i will submit the question to you in writing. I thank you can yield back. A chair now recognizes the gentleman said from texas for five minutes. I think the chair. A special welcome to a former house colleague. Good to see you again. I want to talk about nanotechnology. As in 1985 graduate of Rice University in houston, texas we are proud that two of our professors robert crowe and Richard Smal
Drew and live live doppler 7hd. Some love rain and others are soaked this afternoon. Over the past hour we show you the showers we did have. Certainly falling apart. The sun has set. Thats instigating factor for any showers we had early this afternoon. Live doppler 7 hd with small downpour affecting portions of dublin right now. This is dublin boulevard canyon road and this lone shower is slowly pushing off to the north but once the exit dublin thats about it for the wet weather this evening. Downpour certainly hit parts of the viewing area. Look at the pen grove inch of rain clayton shy of 3 quurters inch of rain and sunny vail the jackpot winner coming in just over an inch of pe. Now head towards friday cool end to the work week. Talk about that and weekend fork with full accuweather forecast in a few minutes. Thanks very much. You have been sending in some great photo of the storm through the bay area this wet day in redd with city is from river r. Heres a look at the dark sky showe