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  Chapter 3: Existing Conditions
Pullman, located at latitude N 46º43’40" and longitude W 117º11’00", is situated in the southeastern part of Whitman County, Washington, in the heart of the agricultural region known as the Palouse (see Figure 1-1).
Pullman is susceptible to periodic flooding, with the earliest of such recorded events occurring in 1884.
Pullman has joined efforts with WSU, Whitman County, the city of Moscow, University of Idaho, and Latah County to manage water sources and explore water conservation measures in response to the concern that the groundwater table may be declining by as much as two feet per year.
www.pullman-wa.gov /DrawOnePage.aspx?PageID=243   (6290 words)

  
 Telling True Stories
It is the universe of Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials and, as I shall attempt to show in the pages that follow, it is a universe that rests upon a very particular vision of material spirit and of the practical and ethical implications of such a vision.
In view of this, a true story in Pullman's universe, like the true stories that Lyra tells in combination with the alethiometer, might be characterized by their openly disposed but purposive, inventive engagement with the material world, rather than by their perfectly faithful, polished mirroring a world of reality that they remain outside of.
I can't resist noting that, in fact, a favorite pastime of Pullman nerds (like myself and my kids, at least when they were younger) seems to be to imagine the shape of one's daemon and even to give it a name.
www-personal.umich.edu /~scolas/Words/Essays/telling_true_stories.htm   (12287 words)

  
 Saudi Aramco World : Murder of the Orient Express   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The "Nostalgic Orient Express" was the brainchild of train buff and entrepreneur Albert Glatt, director of the Intraflug AG charter flight agency of Zurich, who first organized a trial run in 1976, with rolling stock rented from La Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits.
I was soon restored to good humor, however, fortified by fresh coffee and rolls and a stroll in the sunshine along the platform, now crowded with wide-eyed, happy children brought by their teachers to see the show.
Passengers were mainly students and homeward-bound foreign workers carrying beverages, blankets and biscuits for the long ride: a far cry from the days when the royal and the rich slept on embroidered percale with feather comforters, and white-gloved waiters served champagne and caviar aboard the world's most exotic train.
www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/197703/murder.of.the.orient.express.htm   (2613 words)

  
 THE SCOTCH EXPRESS
The speed had not been checked, and the uproar was so great that in effect one was simply standing at the center of a vast, fl-walled sphere.
Gliding at a speed that was still high, the train curved to the left, and swung down a sharp incline, to move with an imperial dignity through the railway yard at Rugby.
This express is named, both by the public and the company, the "Corridor Train," because a coach with a corridor is an unusual thing in England, and so the title has a distinctive meaning.
home.mindspring.com /~railroadstories/scrapbook/famous/scotch.htm   (4303 words)

  
 Frequently Asked Questions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
There are several companies that carry Orient Express within their brands.
A: Our cabins range from the original Pullman Car upper-and-lower bed accommodations to our Deluxe and Presidential Suites, which are larger cabins and appointed with en-suite toilets, showers and lower beds (all cabins are appointed with private sink and water closet).
A: The American Orient Express was refurbished before the American Disabilities Act; and therefore, it does not comply with ADA standards.
www.americanorientexpress.com /framesets/frame_faq.html   (988 words)

  
 Pullman Shops - Valley series 6-6-4
Pullman produced the first conventional size lightweight sleeping car, Forward, in November of 1936.
Painted in the new Pullman two-tone gray scheme these cars were pressed into service during the war on the previously all-stainless steel sided Chief.
With the rapid decline in Pullman travel from 1955 on, newer cars replaced the Valleys' in most service and they were used mostly in tour group service.
www.pullmanshops.com /atsfvalley.htm   (710 words)

  
 NEB&W Guide to Shorty Wood Box Cars - A   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
According to Al Westerfield, an unknown number of PRR XL box cars were lettered for this express agency, with just "Adams Express" in the same sized Roman, on one line, on the left hand side of the car.
According to Martin Lofton, the ACL was the biggest owner of ventilator box cars, which were used to ship watermelons and cantaloupes from the Southeast to the populated areas of the Northeast.
Sunshine offered decals for the all the schemes used on these cars.
railroad.union.rpi.edu /rolling-stock/Box-cars/36-foot/Old-time-box-cars-A.php   (4894 words)

  
 Steamer Trunk Merchants: Compagnie des Wagons-Lits   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The French Army captures Mata Hari aboard the East Express train, and later executes her, convinced of her espionage.
The Est Express train is taken by a storm of terrorists, and 20 are assassinated.
The Simplon East Express is replaced by the Direct East Express train.
www.steamertrunkmerchants.com /Salon/Railroads/wagonlits.htm   (483 words)

  
 UP-Historical Equipment Still in Use: Coaches   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The train Sunshine Special made its first trip on December 5, 1915, providing, at the time, through service over the Missouri Pacific Lines and the Texas and Pacific Railway between St. Louis, Missouri, and Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Galveston and San Antonio, Texas.
The Sunshine Special also was among the first trains to offer the comfort of air-conditioning in 1933.
The Sunshine Special was replaced by the Texas Eagle on August 15, 1948, and was last listed in the December 1961 timetable.
www.uprr.com /aboutup/history/histequp/coach.shtml   (1130 words)

  
 American Orient Express.info - FAQs
A: Cabins range from the original Pullman Car upper-and-lower bed accommodations to the Grand and Classic Presidential Suites, which are larger cabins and appointed with en-suite toilets, showers and lower beds (all cabins are appointed with private sink and water closet).
With a kitchen that, at times, travels the tracks at speeds of up to 80 miles per hour, the culinary staff may find themselves performing amazing feats of balance and precision.
Remarkably small in size, the fully appointed stainless-steel kitchens aboard the train can be found buzzing with activity well before dawn and into the late-evening hours, preparing as many as 400 meals a day.
www.americanorientexpress.info /faqs.html   (1031 words)

  
 City Pages - Welcome to Fantasy Island: Population 280 million.
Whereas after Pullman's Lyra and Will stagger through the land of the dead, their joyous payoff is watching long-trapped souls fly up to daylight and--poof!--nonexistence.
Pullman is one of the few writers I know of in any genre who can fully convince the reader that the protagonists will falter.
No part of this service may be reproduced in any form without the express written permission of City Pages LLC except that an individual may download and/or forward articles via e-mail to a reasonable number of recipients for personal, non-commercial purposes.
www.citypages.com /databank/23/1146/article10874.asp   (3515 words)

  
 Moscow Food Co-op Volunteer Profile - Kate Pesho   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
She was born in Kansas, but didn't stay long, soon leaving to grow up in any number of states, most of them sunny.
Her father was an entomologist with state universities, and Kate ended up in Pullman, graduated from high school, and left as soon as she could.
In 1992, she visited Pullman, met her future husband, Russ Graves, and the rest is natural history.
www.moscowfood.coop /staff/kate.html   (723 words)

  
 Famous trains - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nonetheless, certain routes are still integral parts of the transport systems of some countries (e.g.
Nikolayevski Express operated between Moscow and Saint Petersburg
This page was last modified 03:55, 29 August 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Famous_trains   (142 words)

  
 Through to the Pacific, New York Tribune, May-June, 1869
Pullman must add a bath-house to his hotel-car; then it will leave nothing to be desired.
No other lives were lost, but Pullman's cook, who had jumped out of the window, struck upon his head on a sandbank, where he spun like a top for a few seconds, and lay for two or three hours before he could fully make up his mind whether he was dead or alive.
The result was: eleven killed and wounded cattle; six out of seven coaches thrown from the track, and three of them–baggage and express cars–upside down in the ditch, utterly wrecked.
cprr.org /Museum/Through_to_the_Pacific/Through_to_the_Pacific.html   (16617 words)

  
 6405 miles by slow train from China THE SILK ROAD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Average speed 30 MPH, which means 900 miles to the next town we are to visit (Jiayuguang).
The new crew is very nice and the pullman bar car magnificent and very ancient.
The land of the horse has replaced the land of the camel and blue skies and sunshine are here again.
www.orientexpress.ru /Vock_diary.htm   (3855 words)

  
 The Project Gutenberg eBook of Oregon, Washington and Alaska; Sights and Scenes for the Tourist., by E. L. Lomax
The Private Hotel, Dining, Hunting and Sleeping Cars of the Pullman Company will accommodate from 12 to 18 persons, allowing a full bed to each, and are fitted with such modern conveniences as private, observation and smoking rooms, folding beds, reclining chairs, buffets and kitchens.
He looked down and saw a hollow covered with snow, save at the centre, where a fl lake lay deep in a well of purple rock, and at one end of the lake were three large stones or monuments.
The last-named town enjoys the advantage of being in the center of a fine lumber district, and within a circuit of five miles from Rockford there are ten saw-mills, besides an inexhaustible supply of mica.
www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/0/7/5/10751/10751-h/10751-h.htm   (19753 words)

  
 On "The River"
In Crane’s explanatory outline, he had the porter meditating while "humming to himself." Presumably, toward the end of his poem, he was to break into a spiritual, a spiritual that would somehow unite the strands of the porter’s own "personal, biographical details" with the porter’s memory of John Brown.
As the quatrains bear it (when viewed from the perspective of the unfinished "Calgary Express" rather than "The River"), the whole racial history of America is a history of thwarted progress.
Whizzing train with a pastoral world of calm and silence; rather, the train’s frenzied speed has its counterpart in nature as the poet hears "Trains sounding the long blizzards out." The eye is not blinded by the real ugliness of nature; the elements themselves are not all sunshine and clear water.
www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/a_f/crane/river.htm   (2545 words)

  
 SUNSHINE Week - Sunshine Week 2006 Participants
One of our best resources is the participants themselves, so if you did something for Sunshine Week 2006 and don't see your organization here, please let us know by sending an e-mail to: Debra Gersh Hernandez, Sunshine Week coordinator.
What you'll see listed here are all the media outlets, affiliated groups and individuals who marked Sunshine Week in some manner, from in-depth special reports to wire briefs on their Web sites.
You can view the latest gallery on the Sunshine Week home page, or go to an overview with links to each item on the Sunshine Week 2006 Shining Examples page.
www.sunshineweek.org /index.cfm?id=6156   (623 words)

  
 Brokedown Palace (1999): Claire Danes, Kate Beckinsale, Bill Pullman, Lou Diamond Phillips - PopMatters Film Review
And Alice is targeted by a Thai girl, who seems intent on torturing her, ratting her out to the guards and setting her up for various falls (the shots of the evil Thai girl watching or listening in on Alice from a distance are a bit too dragon-lady for me).
This hopelessness is temporarily relieved by a U.S. lawyer based in Thailand, Yankee Hank Greene (Bill Pullman, as painfully earnest as he's ever been) and his law partner-wife Yon (Jacqui Kim).
It's clear that Alice and Dar (and girls like them) are dupes of men — their fathers, their too-busy-with-college-already boyfriends who visit them once in prison, their invisible government reps, the Australian — and it's clear that they're far too willing to feel guilty for their youthful recklessness.
www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/b/brokedown-palace.shtml   (1120 words)

  
 WSDOT - Project - SR 270 - Pullman to Idaho St Line - Additional Lanes
SR 270 is an important commute route between two university communities, Pullman (Washington State University), and Moscow (University of Idaho).
An open house was held October 20, 2004 at the Holiday Inn Express, Pullman.
The proposed mitigation plan calls for a new wetland site to be created near the Sunshine Road intersection and wetland creation/enhancement along Paradise Creek just north of Sunshine Road.
www.wsdot.wa.gov /projects/SR270/PullmanIdahoStLine   (1171 words)

  
 Wheels of Time - No. 110 Atlantic Coast Line Arched Roof Baggage-Express Car, Class C-7 and C-8   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
It will be right at home behind a colorful maroon E-unit or a GG-1 on the northeast corridor with express shipment from the sunshine state.
Originally painted in the traditional Pullman Green, some cars stayed in that way until they were retired.
We thought we help you capture the flavor of this car in the traditional rich Pullman Green with yellow markings.
www.wheelsotime.com /num110.html   (304 words)

  
 Orient-Express
All itineraries are tailor-made to reach into the heart of rural France with Burgundy, Provence and the Rhone Valley also featured in the Afloat in France 2005 schedule.
October 2003 saw the inauguration of the Hiram Bingham, a new luxury rail service echoing the opulence of the 1920s Pullman era of rail travel operated by PeruRail between Cuzco and Machu Picchu which bears the crest of the famous explorer.
The Eastern and Oriental Express will introduce a new extended 3 night southbound itinerary in 2006 which will feature a number of enhancements to include passing over the famous wooden trestle viaduct at Tham Kasae, one of Thailand’s most scenic stretches of railway.
www.orient-express.com /web/oe/releases/4_60283.jsp   (4419 words)

  
 infinity plus - M to S
Ares Express - a review by Stuart Carter.
The Speed of Dark - a feature-length review by John Grant.
The Speed of Dark - reviewed in Adam Roberts' feature on the 2003 Arthur C Clarke Award shortlist.
www.infinityplus.co.uk /m2s.htm   (3395 words)

  
 What Was New On Our NEB&W Web Site, 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
More kits added to the Sunshine Models Kit Guide, including steel rebuilt box cars, 1/17/04.
Updated stock car and reefer sections of the Sunshine Kit Guide, as well as Sunshine's new 6,500 gallon and skinny 8,000 gallon URTX X-3 tank cars, added 11/29/03.
I added a lot of photos, both prototype and model, in our MDC express reefer section, 2/06/03.
railroad.union.rpi.edu /What's-New-2003.php   (1833 words)

  
 American orient Express Rockies and Sierras Train Tour
Arriving fresh and relaxed, after having spent the night resting in comfortable style, gives you the chance to make the best use of your holiday.
Important scenes in such films as Some Like It Hot and North by Northwest take place in Pullman sleeping cars — close your eyes and envision the likes of Marilyn Monroe and Cary Grant.
We have no affiliation with Sunshine Travel escapes INC, which is located in Florida.
www.cruiseandresorts.com /americanOrientExpress/train/Accommodations.html   (244 words)

  
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So far as this life is concerned, I can express no better wish for any young man who reads this book, than that he may be wedded to a wife as loyal, loving and helpful to him as mine has been to me. INTRODUCTION.
There are verses, written by whom I do not know, the words of which I cannot recall except a line here and there, hence I take the liberty to supply the missing lines and revise the verses to express my feelings for the slave mammy of my childhood.
The train started and when at full speed the engine struck a mule and tore the animal to pieces.
www.gutenberg.org /files/16858/16858.txt   (16658 words)

  
 CSE 275: Counting in Florida
I summoned the supervisor of the precinct housed in our facility and I asked her to get the butterfly ballot from one of the "votamatics" and to look at it together with me. Two or three other people gather around, and it was the identical "butterfly" that I had used at the Church.
I said to the supervisor that the arrows are completely misaligned with the holes and therefore the ballots could not be punched, expressing with certainty the intent of the voter.
Thus continues a by-now entrenched pattern: the use of disinformation and twisted language to subvert the rule of law by pretending that it is really one's opponent who is doing the subverting.
www.cse.ucsd.edu /~goguen/courses/275f00/florida.html   (16219 words)

  
 eastbayexpress.com | Movies | A Dork Has His Day
The premise of his movie is a good one.
Take the romantic-comedy archetype of the guy-who-isn't-the-hero (usually played by Bill Pullman or Bill Paxton).
You know, the one who gets dumped at the altar at the last second when the hero comes running in and makes his honest declaration of love to the heroine.
eastbayexpress.com /Issues/2005-09-14/film/movies2.html   (800 words)

  
 RATHER CONFUSING, Page #1031
According to George W. Saunders, there was a certain Texas cowboy boarded a train at Denver, Colo., after having driven trail from Texas to that salubrious clime, back in 1880, or thereabouts, says "Cattle Clatter" in San Antonio Express.
He walked into the sleeper with a bundle of blankets and asked the Pullman conductor if there was any place where he could bed down.
The conductor said sure there was ; the cowboy could have either upper or lower.
www.lib.utexas.edu /books/texasclassics/traildrivers/txu-oclc-12198638-c-1031.html   (751 words)

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