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  1. Eastern seaboard

    An Eastern seaboard can mean any easternmost part of a continent, or its countries, states and or cities. Eastern seaboard may also refer to East Coast of Australia East Coast of the United States Eastern Seaboard of Thailand See also East Coast disambiguation West Coast disambiguation 1994 Eastern seaboard fires disambig ...   more details



  1. 1994 Eastern seaboard fires

    The 1994 Eastern seaboard fires were bushfires in New South Wales , Australia between 27 December 1993 and 16 January 1994 were widespread along the NSW coast from Bega, New South Wales Bega to the Queensland border and inland as far as Bathurst, New South Wales Bathurst . Over 80 separate fires encouraged by extreme hot dry and windy conditions threatened many areas including the major cities of Newcastle, New South Wales Newcastle and Sydney . The fires killed four people and burnt out over 8,000 square kilometres. The fires across the state destroyed 225 homes in total 101 of which were in the southern Sydney suburbs of Jannali, New South Wales Jannali and Como West, New South Wales Como West where Como West Public School was also destroyed. 13 houses were destroyed in suburbs around Lane Cove National Park and 42 were destroyed around Kuringai National Park , Garigal National Park and the Royal National Park , 9 houses including a Youth hostel were destroyed in Hawkesbury Heights in the Blue Mountains. These fires generated a large amount of media coverage internationally. Unlike earlier fires several of which caused much more damage the 1994 bushfires entered a major city, as the later Black Christmas bushfires Black Christmas and 2003 Canberra bushfires would. Additionally, this was the only occasion in which a major city, Sydney, had been threatened with total isolation due to fire. At the peak of the fires only the Hume Highway to the southwest remained open. All other road and rail routes out of Sydney were closed. Residents of the entire metropolitan area of Sydney had to contend with ash raining down on them, and the sky remained a blazing orange colour for days afterwards. External links http www.emergency.nsw.gov.au content.php 222.html http members.ozemail.com.au ... DEFAULTSORT 1994 Eastern Seaboard Fires Category 1994 in Australia Eastern Category Disasters in Australia Category Bushfires in Australia Category 1994 fires Eastern Seaboard Fires, 1994 ...   more details



  1. Eastern Seaboard of Thailand

    The Eastern Seaboard of Thailand is an emerging economic region, and plays a key role in Thailand s economy. Its importance lies in the fact that it is Thailand s center for export oriented industries. High value goods, such as Japanese branded automobiles, which are manufactured there and shipped to other ports, are among the many exports. The region comprises Chon Buri Province , Chachoengsao Province , Samut Prakan Province and Rayong Province . Development The rising economic importance of the region is evident through the central government s commitment to the region s infrastructure development. Planners see the region as strategically important as it borders the Gulf of Thailand gulf as well as being close to Bangkok , and the Suvarnabhumi International Airport airport . Laem Chabang port, Thailand s largest and List of world s busiest container ports 20th busiest port in the world as of 2008, is the region s port. Bangkok , Suvarnabhumi Airport and the port are all linked by the Bang Na Expressway tollway. Two large infrastructure projects worth a total of 36 billion baht, both railways , have been approved on October 23, 2007, to be built to railway links up from Korat and Lat Krabang with Laem Chabang port. ref http www.bangkokpost.com News 23Oct2007 news01.php ref In addition, the Chon Buri Motorway, Thailand s first Thai motorway network motorway , also links the region with Suvarnabhumi Airport and Bangkok . In November 2007, Thailand s completed its second motorway, Bangkok s Outer Ring Road. The region is home to many huge industrial estates. Other than its manufacturing and shipping industries, it also has a diverse service sector consisting of the tourism, construction, and retail industries. Pattaya , the major tourist city, is also located here, and is only ... pdf 2001 0420.pdf Eastern Seaboard Development Program http www.jbic.go.jp english oec post 2000 pdf 01 01.pdf Eastern Seaboard Development Plan Social Impact Evaluation http www.blacksmithinstitute.org ...   more details



  1. Seaboard

    Seaboard is a synonym for coast . Seaboard can also refer to Seaboard, North Carolina , a small town in the United States Seaboard Corporation , an international agribusiness company Seaboard International , an international oilfield equipment engineering and manufacturing company, or its subsidiary Seaboard Wireline Seaboard Air Line Railroad in the United States or its successors Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Seaboard System Railroad Seaboard World Airlines 1960 to 1980 , an international cargo airline that also served as a U.S. military carrier Seaboard World Airlines Flight 253A , a Soviet American airspace incident in 1968 See also SEEBOARD , a former British electricity company Eastern Seaboard , commonly referring to the east coast of the United States disambig ...   more details



  1. Seaboard Railroad

    Seaboard Railroad may refer to Seaboard Air Line Railroad Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Seaboard System Railroad dab Short pages monitor This long comment was added to the page to prevent it being listed on Special Shortpages. It and the accompanying monitoring template were generated via Template Longcomment. Please do not remove the monitor template without removing the comment as well. ...   more details



  1. Seaboard International

    Citations date December 2010 Infobox Company company name Seaboard International company logo Commented out because image was deleted Image seaboard logo.gif center company type Private company Corporation foundation 1974, Houston, Texas location Headquartered in Houston, Texas , operates worldwide key people Chairman Chairman of the Board, President and CEO J. Kelly Joy industry Petroleum industry Oil and Gas Services & Equipment products Wellhead equipment and services to the petroleum industry revenue homepage http www.seaboardusa.com Seaboard International Seaboard International is a privately held manufacturer of highly engineered oil and gas pressure control equipment providing services for worldwide onshore and offshore oil & gas exploration, drilling and production operations. Seaboard began development of wellhead and electric feed thru connector product lines in 1974 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas. Organization Seaboard International is presently organized into the following divisions Seaboard International designs and manufactures API wellhead equipment and gate valves for worldwide onshore and offshore oil & gas exploration, drilling and production operations. Seaboard Wireline provides electric and slickline services, pipe recovery, perforating, gamma ray and neutron source material logging operations. Corporate, Administrative, and Engineering headquarters are located in Houston, Texas, managing twelve regional sales, service, and manufacturing centers. See also Wellhead Wireline networking Wireline Oil industry Christmas tree oil well American Petroleum Institute List of oilfield service companies External links http www.seaboardusa.com Official Seaboard International Home Page Category Companies based in Houston, Texas Category Oilfield services companies ...   more details



  1. Seaboard Corporation

    Infobox company name Seaboard Corporation type Public traded as amex SEB logo Image Seaboard logo.png industry Agriculture and Shipping location city Merriam, Kansas Merriam , Kansas location country United States owner subsid Seaboard Foods, Seaboard Marine, Seaboard Commodity Trading and Milling parent Seaboard Corporation is a diversified Conglomerate company conglomerate that operates worldwide a number of agriculture and ocean transport businesses. In the United States , the company mainly engages in pork production and processing. Internationally, Seaboard also has operations in cargo shipping, commodity merchandising, sugar and citrus production and flour Mill grinding milling . The company ... Republic generating electricity from diesel engine s mounted on two large barge s. Seaboard has over ... , is a Fortune 1000 firm with net sales exceeding 2.0 billion per year. Seaboard is a majority owned subsidiary of Seaboard Flour, which is owned by the Bresky family. Citation needed date July 2011 Seaboard subsidiaries Seaboard Foods Seaboard Marine Miami, Florida Seaboard Commodity Trading ... Mount Dora Farms Inc., Miami, Florida Seaboard Transportation, Inc., Shawnee Mission, Kansas Butterball ... of corporate welfare from 1990 to 1997 describing Seaboard Corporation as the beneficiary of at least ... its products. Their research also alleged that Seaboard Corp. had a history of worker abuse and environmental ... first2 James B. last2 Steele ref Rick Hoffman, CEO of the company s Seaboard Farms subsidiary, responded by telling the Associated Press that, There were no programs that Seaboard solicited by the state ... claimed was earmarked for Seaboard did not in fact benefit the company. In 1996, Seaboard bought the sugar ... a campaign to have Seaboard Corp. San Martin de Tabacal return their land. Their ongoing campaign ... ref In August, 2007 a judge ordered Seaboard to cease all tree and earth removal pending ... External links http www.seaboardcorp.com Seaboard homepage http www.tabacal.com.ar Tabacal Agroindustria ...   more details



  1. Seaboard Villages

    The Seaboard Villages lang gd Na Tr Port Mara are three contiguous coastal villages, situated about 10 km southeast of the town of Tain in Easter Ross , Scotland . They face east onto the Moray Firth . Namely from North to South Hilton of Cadboll which has the pier Balintore, Easter Ross Balintore which has the harbour Shandwick which has the bay External links http www.rossandcromartyheritage.org communit p37 ht hy DTTS Cover.html Down to the Sea online version of history book of Hilton, Balintore, and Shandwick coord 57.75657 N 3.91069 W region GB source enwiki osgb36 NH864757 display title Note WGS84 lat long, converted from OSGB36 grid ref Category Populated places in Ross and Cromarty ...   more details



  1. Seaboard, North Carolina

    Infobox settlement official name Seaboard, North Carolina settlement type Town nickname motto Images image skyline imagesize image caption image flag image seal Maps image map NCMap doton Seaboard.PNG mapsize 250x200px map caption Location of Seaboard, North Carolina image map1 mapsize1 map caption1 Location subdivision type List of countries Country subdivision name United States subdivision type1 Political divisions of the United States State subdivision name1 North Carolina subdivision type2 List of counties in North Carolina County subdivision name2 Northampton County, North Carolina Northampton government footnotes government type leader title leader name leader title1 leader name1 established title established date Area unit pref Imperial area footnotes area magnitude area total km2 2.7 area land km2 2.7 area water km2 0.0 area total sq mi 1.0 area land sq mi 1.0 area water sq mi 0.0 Population population as of United States Census, 2000 2000 population footnotes population total 695 population density km2 261.2 population density sq mi 676.6 General information timezone North American Eastern Time Zone Eastern EST utc offset 5 timezone DST EDT utc offset DST 4 elevation footnotes elevation m 41 elevation ft 135 coordinates display inline,title coordinates type region US type city latd 36 latm 29 lats 22 latNS N longd 77 longm 26 longs 21 longEW W Area postal codes & others postal code type ZIP code postal code 27876 area code Area code 252 252 blank name Federal Information Processing Standard FIPS code blank info 37 59980 GR 2 blank1 name Geographic Names Information System GNIS feature ID blank1 info 0994451 GR 3 website footnotes Seaboard is a town in Northampton ... Micropolitan Statistical Area . Geography Seaboard is located at coord 36 29 22 N 77 26 21 W type ... Carolina politician, was born in Seaboard in 1922. References references Northampton County, North ... Roanoke Rapids micropolitan area ca Seaboard es Seaboard nl Seaboard pt Seaboard vo Seaboard ...   more details



  1. Mid-Atlantic seaboard

    unreferenced date August 2010 The mid Atlantic Seaboard is an area of the eastern United States along the Atlantic Ocean . The term s meaning changes depending on the user, but generally it always includes the seaports, coastal plain s and United States territorial waters of Maryland , Delaware , and Virginia . It may also include the coastal plains and United States territorial waters of New Jersey , North Carolina , South Carolina , and even northern Georgia U.S. state Georgia . Finally, it can also include the entirety of all of the previously mentioned states and Washington, DC . Category East Coast of the United States ...   more details



  1. Atlantic seaboard watershed

    Geobox Region name Atlantic Seaboard other name range category watershed image NorthAmerica WaterDivides.png image size 330px image caption The Atlantic Seaboard Watershed is a narrow continental area which extends southward along the Atlantic Ocean from List of rivers of Nova Scotia Cape North Nova Scotia peninsula to the southern limit of the Eastern Continental Divide yellow , which ends at the drainage into the 1937 Okeechobee Waterway . country Canada country flag 1 country1 United States country flag1 1 area imperial 233961 area note br lower bound from sum of listed areas on 2010 12 25 map map caption Main Atlantic Watershed of North America The Atlantic seaboard watershed is a drainage basin watershed of North America along both the Atlantic Canada Maritimes coast south of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence Watershed & the East Coast of the United States north of the watershed of the Okeechobee Waterway . The relatively narrow Specify What is the largest west to east width? date December 2009 convert TBD miles km continental area is demarcated on the south by drainage to the Okeechobee Waterway which drains both westward to the Gulf and eastward to ocean , the Eastern Continental Divide ECD to the west, and the File NorthAmericaDivides.gif Saint Lawrence divide to the north. United States physiographic region US physiographic regions of this watershed are the Atlantic Plain and the Appalachian Mountains Appalachian Mountains & Highlands . Major sub watersheds of the Atlantic Seaboard are the following north to south Sub watersheds adjacent to the Saint Lawrence divide Chedabucto Bay convert 2148 sqmi km2 http www.mar.dfo mpo.gc.ca science ocean ceice Inlets ChedabuctoBay2.htm Gulf of Maine convert 69115 sqmi km2 SOURCE Gulf of Maine WIKIARTICLE Long Island Sound convert ... point small Sub watersheds adjacent to the Eastern Continental Divide Albemarle Sound convert 14380 ... January 2010 Kissimmee River convert 3000 sqmi km2 For references regarding this watershed Eastern ...   more details



  1. Seaboard Coast Line Industries

    Seaboard Coast Line Industries, Inc. , incorporated in Delaware on May 9, 1969, was a railroad holding company that owned the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad , its subsidiary Louisville and Nashville Railroad , and several smaller carriers. Its railroad subsidiaries were collectively known as the Family Lines System . Its headquarters were in Jacksonville, Florida in the United States . Through 1979, the Family Lines network totaled Convert 16326 mi km in 13 states. The company succeeded SCL Industries, Inc. , incorporated August 1, 1968 in Virginia and renamed Seaboard Coast Line Industries, Inc. on February 5, 1969. On November 1, 1980 Seaboard Coast Line Industries merged with Chessie System, Inc. to form CSX Corporation , and in 1983 the Family Lines units were combined as the Seaboard System Railroad . External links http web.archive.org web 20050816033204 http www.aclsal.org chronology.htm Atlantic Coast Line and Seaboard Air Line Historical Society website timeline page Category Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Category Predecessors of CSX Transportation Category Seaboard Air Line Railroad Category Seaboard System Railroad Category Louisville and Nashville Railroad Category United States railroad holding companies Category Railway companies established in 1969 Category Railway companies disestablished in 1980 US rail transport stub ...   more details



  1. Seaboard Air Line Depot

    The Seaboard Air Line Depot can refer to the following former and active train stations previously used by the Seaboard Air Line Railroad , many of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places Expand list date September 2008 Florida Apopka Seaboard Air Line Railway Depot Auburndale SAL station Auburndale, Florida Belleview SAL station Belleview, Florida Deerfield Beach Seaboard Air Line Railway Station Delray Beach Seaboard Air Line Railway Station Gainesville SAL station Hawthorne SAL station Fort Lauderdale SAL station Fort Lauderdale Seaboard Air Line Railway Station Hialeah Seaboard Air Line Railway Station Hollywood SAL station Homestead Seaboard Air Line Railway Station Inverness SAL station Largo SAL station Leesburg SAL station Naples Railroad Depot Ocala SAL station Opa locka Seaboard Air Line Railway Station Orlando SAL station Seaboard Air Line Railroad Orlando station Plant City SAL station Old Sebring Seaboard Air Line Depot Venice Seaboard Air Line Depot West Palm Beach Intermodal Terminal West Palm Beach SAL station Wildwood SAL station Wildwood, Florida Williston SAL station Winter Haven SAL station Yulee SAL Depot Georgia Athens SAL station Colbert SAL station Comer SAL station Elberton SAL station Emory SAL station Lawrenceville SAL station Plains SAL station Tucker SAL station North Carolina Apex Union Depot Apex SAL station Bladenboro SAL station Bostic SAL station Caroleen SAL station Charlotte SAL station Cherryville SAL station Clarkton SAL station Colon SAL station Creedmore SAL station Conway SAL station Ellenboro SAL station Franklinton SAL station Gibson SAL station Gumberry SAL station Hamlet SAL station Hamlet, North Carolina Hoffman SAL station Kelford SAL station Latimore SAL station Lumberton SAL station Matthews SAL station ... Seaboard Air Line Railway Depot Charleston SAL station Chester SAL station Cheraw SAL station Columbia ... Lugoff SAL station McBee SAL station North, South Carolina SAL station Seaboard Air Line Railway Depot ...   more details



  1. Seaboard World Airlines

    Infobox Airline airline Seaboard World Airlines logo Seaboard.png logo size 150 IATA SB ICAO SEW callsign SEABOARD founded September 16, 1946 as Seaboard & Western Airlines ceased October 1, 1980 merged with Flying Tiger Line headquarters New York City, New York hubs focus cities div New York City, New York New York City frequent flyer lounge alliance fleet size 81 Historically destinations company ... File Seaboard World Airlines Boeing 747 245F SCD Rose.jpg thumb Seaboard Boeing 747 200F in 1977. Seaboard ... Seaboard World Airlines International Civil Aviation Organisation ICAO Code SEW International Air Transport Association IATA Code SB Airline call sign Callsign Seaboard was founded on September 16, 1946 as Seaboard & Western Airlines . It initially operated Douglas DC 4 aircraft, followed by Lockheed Constellation Lockheed Super Constellation airliners. It adopted the name Seaboard World Airlines ... Seaboard World Airlines DC 8 N868F.jpg thumb Seaboard World Airlines DC 8 N868F taken in 1974. The airline ... as Seaboard World Airlines Flight 253A was forced to land in the Soviet Union with 214 American troops on board. In 1969, a Seaboard World Airlines DC 8 landed by mistake at Marble Mountain Air ... watch?v 6bvK6enoQDg Seaboard World DC 8 lands at Marble Mountain . YouTube , 7 January 2010. Retrieved 20 January 2012. ref Seaboard was the first airline to fly a 747 Freighter service from ... of its corporate identity. ref http www.seaboardairlines.org seabhist.htm Seaboard History Bot generated title ref Fleet class wikitable bgcolor cccccc Seaboard World Airlines fleet Type Number Douglas ... DC 10 30F align right 1 center References Reflist 2 External links commonscat Seaboard World Airlines Portal box New York City Companies Aviation http www.seaboardairlines.org seabhist.htm Seaboard ... search photo.search?airlinesearch Seaboard 20World 20Airlines&distinct entry true Seaboard World ... in 1980 Category Seaboard World Airlines de Seaboard World Airlines it Seabord World Airlines ...   more details



  1. Atlantic Seaboard fall line

    Geobox Fall line name Atlantic Seaboard fall line image image caption nickname Piedmont Coastal Plain fall line country United States country flag part type North endpoint br South endpoint part New Jersey br The Carolinas Carolinas or Georgia U.S. state Georgia part note ref name USGS Cite web title The Fall Line url http tapestry.usgs.gov features 14fallline.html work A Tapestry of Time and Terrain The Union of Two Maps Geology and Topography publisher USGS.gov accessdate 2010 08 12 An alternate source claims the southern endpoint is farther west because there are waterfalls & rapids br Cite web title Georgia Geology url http www.gly.uga.edu default.php?PK 0&iPage 5 FallLine accessdate 2010 08 13 ref ref name freitag length imperial 900 length round 2 length note ref name freitag map United States Fall Line.jpg map size map caption Map showing part of the Eastern Seaboard Fall Line where the pale colored coastal plain meets the brightly colored Piedmont. footnote GeoGroupTemplate align left The Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line , or Fall Zone , is a convert 900 mi km adj on escarpment where the Piedmont United States Piedmont and Atlantic coastal plain meet in the eastern United States . ref name freitag cite book last Freitag first Bob coauthors Susan Bolton, Frank Westerlund, Julie Clark title Floodplain Management A New Approach for a New Era year 2009 publisher Island Press isbn 9781597266352 page 77 url http books.google.com books?id e1lr3gQiO8gC&pg PA77 accessdate 17 November 2010 ref Much of the Atlantic Seaboard fall line passes through areas where no evidence of faulting is present. The fall line marks the geologic boundary of hard metamorphosed terrain&mdash the product of the Taconic orogeny &mdash and the sandy, relatively flat outwash plain of the upper continental ... Peterson title A Field Guide to Geology Eastern North America year 2001 publisher Houghton Mifflin ... silver Atlantic Seaboard fall line, north to south small State small Point crossing small Elevation ...   more details



  1. Seaboard System Railroad

    Infobox SG rail railroad name Seaboard System Railroad logo filename SBD Logo.png logo size 150px system map map size map caption marks SBD length locale Southeastern United States start year 1983 end year 1986 predecessor line Seaboard Coast Line Industries Family Lines successor line CSX Transportation hq city Jacksonville, Florida The Seaboard System Railroad reporting marks SBD was a former Class I railroad created by merging the railroads of the Family Lines System. Although sharing common ownership ... Corporation , the Seaboard System was created effective January 1, 1983. The company was merged on July 1, 1986 with the Chessie System to form CSX Transportation . History The Seaboard s roots were in Seaboard Coast Line Industries , a holding company created in 1972 in order to combine the SCL s subsidiary ... 1, 1983, the Family Lines group subsidiaries were merged into a single operating unit, the Seaboard System. ref name heritage ref name SCL1 cite book title Seaboard Coast Line & Family Lines last Griffin ... Effective July 1, 1986, the Seaboard System was merged with the Chessie System to form CSX Transportation ... four years, the Seaboard was considered a temporary railroad. Within its timeframe, the SBD refined ... fleet. Once CSX Transportation began, the refinements of Seaboard and Chessie System were well combined. class wikitable colspan 2 Seaboard System Railroad Mergers Railroad Date align center South ... align center Columbia, Newberry & Laurens June 1986 Once the ICC approved of the merger, the Seaboard ... Railways This section lists the operating divisions of the Seaboard System as of January 1, 1985 ref cite book title Seaboard System Railroad List of Stations and Yards date January 1, 1985 publisher ... Tampa References reflist Former Class I Florida railroads DEFAULTSORT Seaboard System Railroad Category Seaboard System Railroad Category Predecessors of CSX Transportation Category Defunct Florida railroads ... de Seaboard System Railroad fr Seaboard System Railroad ...   more details



  1. Seaboard Coast Line Railroad

    Infobox SG rail railroad name Seaboard Coast Line Railroad logo filename Seaboard Coast Line Herald.png ... predecessor line Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Atlantic Coast Line , Seaboard Air Line Railroad Seaboard Air Line successor line Seaboard System Railroad Seaboard System hq city Jacksonville, FL and Richmond, VA length Convert 9809 mi km July 1967 The Seaboard Coast Line Railroad reporting mark SCL ... was merged with its affiliate lines to create the Seaboard System Railroad Seaboard System in 1983 ... passenger miles. History The Seaboard Coast Line emerged on July 1, 1967 following the merger of the Seaboard ... . ref name SCL1 cite book title Seaboard Coast Line & Family Lines last Griffin first William ... on May 1, 1971 the Seaboard Coast Line provided passenger service over much of its system, including local passenger trains on some lines. ref Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Passenger Schedules , July 1 ... for the Seaboard Coast Line came in 1969 with the acquisition of the Piedmont and Northern Railway ... the Family Lines System units as the Seaboard System Railroad and later became CSX Transportation when the former Chessie units merged with the Seaboard in December 1986. ref cite book title CSX ... Effective January 1, 1983 the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad became Seaboard System Railroad after ... to this, the SCL and L&N had been under the common ownership of a holding company, Seaboard Coast Line ..., beginning on Seaboard Coast Line railroad, a mile long Tropicana Juice Train train began carrying ... name SCL2 cite book title Seaboard Coast Line Railroad last Nuckles first Douglas B. year 1995 publisher ... years leading up to the merger. Among the first new locomotives purchased by the Seaboard Coast ... be rebuilt into EMD GP16 GP16 models at the Uceta shops. In the years leading up to the creation of the Seaboard System Railroad Seaboard System in 1983, SCL began acquiring the next generation of locomotives ... 01093.JPG thumb Former Seaboard Coast Line Railroad class M 6 caboose on display at the Mulberry Phosphate ...   more details



  1. Seaboard Air Line Railroad

    Infobox SG rail railroad name Seaboard Air Line Railroad logo filename Seaboard RR logo.png logo size 150 system map SAL map 1916.jpg map caption 1916 map of the Seaboard routes map size 300px railroad ... , Florida start year 1900 end year 1967 successor line Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Seaboard Coast Line old gauge hq city originally Portsmouth, VA , later Richmond, VA The Seaboard Air Line ... it merged with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad , its longtime rival, to form the Seaboard Coast Line .... From Jacksonville, Seaboard rails continued to Tampa, Florida Tampa , St. Petersburg, Florida St ... Seaboard routes included a line from Jacksonville via Tallahassee, Florida Tallahassee to a connection ..., Virginia , the earliest route of what became the Seaboard. In the first half of the 20th century Seaboard, along with its main competitors Atlantic Coast Line Railroad , Florida East Coast ... history of the Seaboard began on March 8, 1832, when its earliest predecessor, the Portsmouth ... name Prince 1966 cite book last Prince first Richard E. authorlink coauthors title Seaboard Air Line ... as the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad , known informally as the Seaboard Road . Meanwhile, the Raleigh ... as the Inland Air Line Route . By 1853, the Roanoke and Gaston had connected with the Seaboard ... were shorter than those of competing roads. The Seaboard never owned an airplane. In 1940 the railroad proposed the creation of Seaboard Airlines, but this idea was struck down by the Interstate ... flight in 1927, Seaboard Air Line shares actually attracted some investor curiosity because of the name s aviation related connotations only after noticing that Seaboard Air Line was actually a railroad ... after the war, with the efficiently managed Seaboard Road showing a profit even during the Panic of 1873 ... in 1873, the Seaboard s president, John M. Robinson, acquired financial control of them, becoming president of all three railroads in 1875. Image 1896 SAL.jpg thumb 350px right Map of the Seaboard Air ...   more details



  1. Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad

    refimprove date May 2008 The Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad was organized in 1833 as the Portsmouth and Roanoke Railroad to extend from the area of the rapids of the Roanoke River at its fall line near Weldon, North Carolina to Portsmouth, Virginia , across the Elizabeth River Virginia Elizabeth River from Norfolk, Virginia Norfolk on the harbor of Hampton Roads . History In the early 19th century, competition was fierce among Virginia s port cities to be the point where export products such as tobacco could be transferred to ocean going and coast wise shipping. Canals, turnpikes and railroads became important conduits in the antebellum era antebellum period in Virginia. The original goal of the Portsmouth and Roanoke Railroad was to provide a link for shipments of goods originating on the Roanoke River and its canal system from points west to reach port facilities in the Norfolk, Virginia Norfolk area on the harbor of Hampton Roads . For such traffic, Norfolk and Portsmouth were fiercely competitive with Petersburg, Virginia Petersburg , which had access to the navigable portion of the James ... Company s lumber and paper mill operations in Franklin were located there due to the new railroad. The Seaboard ... in 1838, it was variously known as the Portsmouth and Roanoke Railroad and the Seaboard and Roanoke ... Accidents in 1840. American Civil War One of the Seaboard and Roanoke s builders from the mid ..., the Seaboard and Roanoke became part of the Seaboard Air Line Railway system, which was extended ... states to reach Florida . In 1967, the Seaboard Air Line Railroad merged with its arch rival, the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Atlantic Coast Line railroad to form Seaboard Coast Line Industries ... projected to be located near Bowers Hill in Chesapeake. Suffolk Passenger Station The circa 1885 Seaboard ... Confederate Railroads web site DEFAULTSORT Seaboard Roanoke Railroad Category Defunct Virginia railroads Category Predecessors of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad Category Railway companies established ...   more details



  1. Seaboard Football League

    The Seaboard Football League was a minor American football league that operated from 1971 to 1974. ref name Gill Bob Gill, with Steve Brainerd and Tod Maher, Minor League Football, 1960 85 McFarland and Co., 2002 , pp84, 99 100 ref It folded after the 1974 season as a result of the founding of the World Football League , which deprived the league of talent. Some of the more notable Seaboard Football league alumni include Vince Papale , who went on to the WFL s Philadelphia Bell and later the NFL s Philadelphia Eagles Joe Klecko , who was never paid a penny for his time and used the opportunity to earn a college scholarship and propel himself into a professional career ref http news.google.com newspapers?id To0AAAAIBAJ&sjid i sFAAAAIBAJ&pg 845,1551812&dq joe klecko seaboard&hl en Joe Klecko ..., after the folding of the Atlantic Coast Football League , the Seaboard Football League was the second ... Seaboard Football League , Washington PA Observer Reporter , March 23, 1971, pB 8 ref The teams ... of the ACFL joined the league ref Add Hartford To Seaboard Grid League , Gettysburg PA Times , May 31, 1972, p20 ref , going undefeated and winning the championship ref Hartford Quits Seaboard Loop , Lewiston ME Daily Sun Nov 23, 1972, p39 ref then returned to the ACFL for its 1973 season. The Seaboard ... Jets and the New England Colonials played joined the Seaboard League, which fielded six teams in a shortened 1974 season. ref name Gill Championship games ref name Gill 1971 Seaboard Football League ... Bears 0 1972 Seaboard Football League season 1972 Hartford Knights 17, Chambersburg Cardinals 7 1973 Seaboard Football League season 1973 Chambersburg Cardinals 31, Albany Metro Mallers 12 1974 Seaboard Football League season 1974 Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania Wilkes Barre Bullets 20, Bridgeport ...&dq seaboard football league&hl en Rookie QB Fires Jets , Pittsburgh Press , July 30, 1972 ...&dq seaboard football league&hl en Bronco Recalls Days He Was Busted , Pittsburgh Post Gazette ...   more details



  1. Atlas/Seaboard Comics

    Infobox company company name Seaboard Periodicals company logo Image Scorpion Chaykin1.jpg 200px caption ... num employees parent subsid Atlas Seaboard is the term comic book historians and collectors use ... Seaboard Periodicals , to differentiate from the 1950s Atlas Comics 1950s Atlas Comics , a predecessor of Marvel Comics . Seaboard was located on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan , New York City . History Company ... Goodman left Marvel in 1972, having sold the company in 1968. He created Seaboard Periodicals, which ... was to contribute significantly to Seaboard s cash flow. Sharing editorial duties on the comics ... 21, 2010 deadurl no ref Comic book collectors and others began using the term Atlas Seaboard to differentiate ... s predecessor of Marvel Comics . ref name empire ref http atlaschecklist.50webs.com Atlas Seaboard Comics Index.html An Unofficial Atlas Seaboard Checklist ref Creators rights pioneer Atlas Seaboard ... date February 2010 Chaykin s character the Scorpion Atlas Seaboard Comics Scorpion , for example ... was also in charge of the Seaboard comics, he was a lightweight in making decisions about them ... Artist 16, page ? ref Other publications Seaboard Periodicals also acquired the men s magazine Swank ... with two Zero Issues featuring the Grim Ghost and Phoenix Atlas Seaboard Comics Phoenix . ref http ... of Atlas Seaboard s black and white comics magazines Cover art by George Torjussen . Comics Source unless otherwise noted http www.comics.org publisher 372 Seaboard publisher at the Grand Comics Database ... 1 issue Brute Atlas Seaboard The Brute 3 issues The Cougar Atlas Comics The Cougar 2 issues Demon Hunter ... Malone 3 issues Savage Combat Tales featuring Sgt. Stryker s Death Squad 3 issues Scorpion Atlas Seaboard ... deadurl no http www.internationalhero.co.uk s seaboard.htm Atlas Seaboard at the International ... Jon B. title Vengeance, Incorporated A history of the short lived comics publisher Atlas Seaboard url ... book publishers in North America navbox Category Atlas Seaboard Comics Category Companies established ...   more details



  1. Scorpion (Atlas/Seaboard Comics)

    Image Scorpion Chaykin1.jpg 250px thumb The Scorpion 1 Feb. 1975 . Cover art by Howard Chaykin The Scorpion is the name of two fictional character s who starred successively in an eponymous comic book series published by Atlas Seaboard Comics in the 1970s. Publication history The Scorpion ran three issues, cover dated February to July 1975. The premiere was written and drawn by character creator Howard Chaykin . On the second issue, Chaykin s pencil art was inked by the team of Bernie Wrightson , Michael Kaluta , Walt Simonson and Ed Davis comics Ed Davis . Citing lack of control over his creation, Chaykin quit and the third issue was produced by writer Gabriel Levy and penciler Jim Craig comics Jim Craig , with uncredited inker Jim Mooney . http www.comics.org details.lasso?id 28814 1 Fictional character biographies The protagonist for the first two issues was an Immortality immortal adventurer in the 1930s whose then current identity is Moro Frost. In the third and final issue, the Scorpion is a present day superhero , David Harper. This revamp played off an introductory sequence in the first issue that indicated the Scorpion changed his identity every few years, allowing this to be the same man. Dominic Fortune Following the cancellation of the series, Chaykin used the Scorpion as the basis for his Marvel Comics character Dominic Fortune . http www.atlasarchives.com comics scorpion.html 2 References http www.atlasarchives.com comics scorpion.html The Atlas Archives gcdb type title search scorpion, the title The Scorpion Category 1975 in comics Category Atlas Seaboard Comics titles Category Comics superheroes Category Crime comics ...   more details



  1. Eastern

    Wiktionary Eastern may refer to In transportation Eastern Air Lines , a defunct American airline Eastern Airways , an English airline Eastern Railroad Massachusetts , a defunct railroad Eastern Avenue , various roads Eastern Freeway, Melbourne , Australia Eastern Parkway Brooklyn , New York, United States Eastern Freeway Mumbai Eastern Freeway , Mumbai, India SS Eastern , a cargo liner in service 1946 65 In education Eastern College disambiguation Eastern University disambiguation Country subdivisions Eastern District disambiguation Eastern Province disambiguation Eastern Region disambiguation Other Eastern Division, Fiji East Malaysia Eastern Thailand Other uses Eastern AA , a football soccer team in Hong Kong Eastern District, Hong Kong Eastern Television , a cable TV network in Taiwan Eastern Time , United States Eastern Daily Press , a regional newspaper published in Norwich, England Eastern Electricity , a defunct supply and distribution utility in England 12th Eastern Infantry Division , part of the British army in the First and Second World Wars Ostern German for Eastern , or Red Western , Soviet and Eastern bloc countries version of Western movies See also intitle Eastern Eastern country subdivision disambiguation East Western disambiguation Orient Occident Vostochny disambiguation Far Eastern Federal District , Russia Disambiguation geo de Eastern Begriffskl rung nl Eastern ja pl Eastern pt Eastern sv Eastern vi Ph ng ng ...   more details



  1. Homestead Seaboard Air Line Railway Station

    Infobox building name Homestead Seaboard Air Line Railway Station image Homestead SAL station.jpg caption The former Homestead Seaboard Air Line Railway station in February 2011 location Homestead, Florida Homestead , Florida latd 25 latm 28 lats 18 latNS N longd 80 longm 29 longs 21 longEW W completion date 1927 architect Gustav Maass architect Gustav Maass , Harvey & Clarke, West Palm Beach, Florida West Palm Beach The Homestead Seaboard Air Line Railway Station is a historic Seaboard Air Line Railroad train station depot in Homestead, Florida Homestead , Florida . The station is located at 214 Northwest 9th Terrace, approximately three quarters of a mile west of downtown Homestead. Constructed in 1927, it is identical to the original construction of the Delray Beach Seaboard Air Line Railway Station Delray Beach Seaboard station farther north in Palm Beach County , with the sole exception of its use of the same corinthian order corinthian arches used in the Naples Seaboard Air Line Railway Station Naples Seaboard station and Hialeah Seaboard Air Line Railway Station Hialeah Seaboard station , as opposed to the plain stucco arches of the Delray Beach station. It has the distinction of being both the southernmost Seaboard station and the southernmost railroad station in the United States still standing at its original location. Like many Seaboard stations in South Florida metropolitan area South Florida , the structure combined both a passenger station and a freight depot. However, the station at most only briefly saw passenger service in the late 1920s ref name stpetetimes ... newspapers?id yR1PAAAAIBAJ&sjid kkwDAAAAIBAJ&dq seaboard 20station 20homestead&pg 6865 2C6754555 work St. Petersburg Times date Aug. 29, 1927 page 11 accessdate 2011 03 30 ref before the Seaboard extension ... freight service by CSX Transportation , the successor to Seaboard. References Reflist External ... Railway stations in Florida Category Seaboard Air Line Railroad stations Category Railway stations ...   more details



  1. Raleigh and Gaston / Seaboard Coast Line Building

    orphan date February 2009 Image Raleigh and Gaston Seaboard Coast Line Building 20080321.jpeg thumb 225px right Raleigh and Gaston Seaboard Coast Line Building The Raleigh and Gaston Seaboard Coast Line Building is an historic building in Raleigh, North Carolina that was once home to the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad and subsequently the Raleigh office of the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad . The building is one of Raleigh s earliest surviving office buildings and is a designated Raleigh Historic Landmark. ref name visitraleigh.com http www.visitraleigh.com visitors things to do downtownwalkingtour Visitraleigh.com Downtown Walking Tour ref In 1977, the State of North Carolina moved the building from its original location on North Halifax Street to its present location at 413 North Salisbury Street. ref name visitraleigh.com References reflist External links http www.historync.org railroad RGRR.htm Cite news url http query.nytimes.com mem archive free pdf? r 1&res 9A01E1DD1530E132A25754C2A9669D94689ED7CF&oref slogin title Seaboard Air Line Combine work The New York Times date October 27, 1899 accessdate 2010 12 29 NorthCarolina struct stub coord 35.7856 78.6402 type landmark region US NC display title Category Buildings and structures in Raleigh, North Carolina Category Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Category Buildings and structures completed in 1862 ...   more details




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