Other uses class infobox cellpadding 2 style border 1px solid darkgray 1 yard colspan 2 US customary ... Observatory, Greenwich , London 1 yard 3 feet , 2 feet, 1 foot, 6 inches frac 2 foot , and 3 inches ... 112 3 ref A yard abbreviation yd is a Units of measurement unit of length in several different systems ..., South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States, the yard known as the international yard in the United States was legally defined to be exactly 0.9144 metre s. ref name Astin A. V. Astin ... for the yard and the pound , Washington DC National Bureau of Standards , republished on National ... ref Prior to that date, the legal definition of the yard when expressed in terms of metric units ... cloth, the early yard was divided by the binary method into two, four, eight and sixteen parts. ref ... divisions were the fourth and sixteenth parts. The quarter of a yard was known as the quarter without further qualification, while the sixteenth of a yard was called a Nail unit nail . ref name Arnold1850 ... XE4DAAAAQAAJ&pg PA54 accessdate 26 January 2012 year 1850 page 54 ref The eighth of a yard was sometimes ... as an eighth of a yard, while the half yard was called half a yard. ref name Instructions for cutting ... Other units related to the yard, but not specific to cloth measurement two yards are a fathom , a quarter of a yard when not referring to cloth is a span unit span . ref name Steen1846 cite book author ... books?id wDAEAAAAQAAJ&pg PA9 accessdate 27 January 2012 year 1846 page 9 ref Etymology The yard ... name OED citation contribution yard sup 2 sup title Oxford English Dictionary A New Dictionary of English ... 16 17 . ref ref http www.oed.com view Entry 231201?rskey CJtNbm&result 2&isAdvanced false yard, n.2 ... ref The word yard is a homonym of Yard land yard in the sense of an enclosed area of land, a word related to the verb to gird , This second meaning of yard has a completely different etymology from the first and is not related. ref http www.oed.com view Entry 231200?rskey CJtNbm&result 1 yard ... more details
No footnotes date July 2011 News release date July 2011 Infobox television show name The Yard image caption format Mockumentary camera picture format runtime creator David Eddie br Michael Mabbott developer executive producer starring See Cast narrated country Canada network HBO Canada first aired Start date 2011 7 8 last aired Aug 5. 2011 num seasons 1 num episodes 6 list episodes website The Yard is a six part half hour miniseries that originally aired on HBO Canada . Cast The Good Guys Nick played by Quintin Colantoni , the eleven year old Capo of The Yard, quintessentially cool and a hard nosed realist, he is also an astute reader of human nature. He is wise beyond his years, and is loyal ... kid in the yard. She is a bed wetter and is given a dollar for every night she doesn ... big brother Drago ran the yard last year, before leaving for middle school. Believes Nick has stolen ... peace in the Yard. Alistair played by Cameron Mazzei , Nerdy but flashily dressed, Alistair is the best Ju Ji Mon a trading card game player in the Yard. He is Peanut allergy allergic to Peanuts ... by Siam Yu , The Yard s Asian Minister of Information. Ashok played by Ajay Gautam, The Yard s doctor ... A new trading card game hits the yard and a financial crisis starts. ref http www.torontolife.com daily hype prime time 2011 07 12 the yard episode 1 recap ref Girls vs. Boys Johnny is kicked ... more trouble and chaos in The Yard. Big Business The Free Market Stinks Stink bomb s are big business in the Yard and Frankie and his crew are at the top. But Mary Miladic starts to complain, Nick ... The Yard The Yard like kiddie Sopranos . ref http www.torontosun.com 2011 06 28 the yard like kiddie sopranos Toronto Sun review of The Yard ref The Grid called it The Wire Babies . ref http www.thegridto.com ... theyard index.php The Yard Official site IMDb title 1721669 http www.whizbangfilms.com the yard Whiz Bang Films.com The Yard HBONetwork Series DEFAULTSORT Yard, The Category 2010s Canadian television ... more details
Shunting yard may refer to Classification yard Shunting yard algorithm British term for rail yard disambig Long comment to avoid being listed on short pages ... more details
The Longest Yard may refer to The Longest Yard 1974 film The Longest Yard 1974 film , starring Burt Reynolds Mean Machine film Mean Machine , a 2001 soccer association football film adaptation starring Vinnie Jones The Longest Yard 2005 film The Longest Yard 2005 film , remake of the 1974 film starring Adam Sandler and Chris Rock The Longest Yard soundtrack , soundtrack for the 2005 remake. The Tackle , the play that ended Super Bowl XXXIV one yard short of the goal line disamb Long comment to avoid being listed on short pages da The Longest Yard de The Longest Yard fr The Longest Yard nl The Longest Yard ru The Longest Yard sv The Longest Yard ... more details
unreferenced date September 2011 G vercinlik Yard lang tr Ankara Demiryol Fabrikas , meaning Ankara Railway Factory is the largest yard in Turkey . The yard is located in Etimesgut district of Ankara and is owned by the Turkish State Railways . The yard consists of a freight yard, passenger yard, a large maintenance facility and a logistics center. The yard is next to the stanbul Ankara Main Line near Mar andiz railway station. TCDD Category Turkish State Railways ... more details
Navy Yard may refer to Boston Navy Yard , Massachusetts Brooklyn Navy Yard , the New York Naval Shipyard Charleston Navy Yard , South Carolina San Francisco Naval Shipyard , California Mare Island Naval Shipyard , California Norfolk Naval Shipyard , Virginia Philadelphia Naval Shipyard , Pennsylvania Portsmouth Naval Shipyard , Maine Puget Sound Naval Shipyard , Washington state Washington Navy Yard Navy Yard Ballpark WMATA station , a Metro station in Washington DC Navy Yard Near Southeast , the neighborhood around the Washington Navy Yard and served by the Metro station of the same name. disambiguation fr Navy Yard ... more details
orphan date July 2010 The Mar andiz Yard Mar andiz deposu in Turkish language Turkish is a classification yard in the city of Ankara . It is owned by the Turkish State Railway . The yard is the largest rail yard on the Anatolia Anatolian peninsula and in Turkey . The rail yard was built in 1892 by the Central Anatolian Railway CFOA . In 1927 it was taken over by the Turkish State Railways and expanded in 1972. Layout The yard is next to the Istanbul Ankara Main Line in Ankara, next to the Mar andiz Railway Station . It connects to the line on both ends. The yard has a freight marshaling yard, a passenger yard, an Intermodal transport Intermodal Terminal and a locomotive depot. External links http www.trainsofturkey.com w pmwiki.php Signal MarshallingYardInterlocking Trains of Turkey TCDD coord missing Turkey Category Rail yards Category Buildings and structures in Ankara Category Rail transport in Turkey ... more details
Wiktionary yardYard A yard is an imperial US customary non metric unit of length 3 feet . Yard may also refer to Square yard , an imperial US customary non metric unit of area 9 square feet Cubic yard , an imperial US customary non metric unit of volume 27 cubic feet Pseudoscientific metrology The megalithic system Megalithic yard , a theoretical unit of prehistoric measurement Yard glass , an extremely long beer glass Yard land , an enclosed area, usually attached to a building Yard sailing , a spar on a traditional sailing ship YARD software , a documentation generator for the Ruby programming language Yards Brewing Company , a brewery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Rail yard , complex of railroad tracks for storing, sorting, or loading unloading, railroad cars and or locomotives Brickyard a place where bricks are made or stored Prison yard a walled or fenced, often open air space in a jail or prison Yard, used in United Kingdom British , South Africa n, Forex and money market s as slang for a thousand million units long and short scales short scale billion, formerly Long and short scales Notes on current usage milliard Scotland Yard or The Yard , headquarters for London s Metropolitan Police Service Yardbird American slang term Yardie Jamaican slang term Skin Yard , an American grunge band from Seattle, Washington People Douglas Yard , appointed a judge of the Family Division of the Court of Queen s Bench of Manitoba on October 7, 1998 Molly Yard 1912&ndash 2005 , an American feminist of the late 20th century Robert Sterling Yard 1861&ndash 1945 , an American writer, journalist, and wilderness activist disambiguation de Yard Begriffskl rung eo Jardo ko ja pl Jard ujednoznacznienie simple Yard th tr Yard ... more details
Infobox UK feature official name Tyne Yard shire county state Tyne and Wear country England nation UK map name United Kingdom Tyne and Wear static image name Tyne Yard 12 March 2009 pic 5.jpg static image caption Some of the Tyne Yard sidings viewed from Smithy Lane road bridge os grid reference NZ2562057641 latitude 54.913 longitude 1.600 Tyne Yard TY is a Rail yard railway yard in Gateshead , England, on the East Coast Main Line , operated by DB Schenker Rail UK Ltd. The yard is the major freight yard of the region, with the majority of rail freight movements in Tyne and Wear from around the UK passing through the yard. The yard is about convert 5 mi 0 south of Newcastle upon Tyne , between Team Valley and the village of Birtley, Tyne and Wear Birtley . It is visible from trains passing on the adjacent East Coast Main Line, with the yard located on the western side of the line. Freight handled in the yard includes coal, oil, automotive parts, bauxite and enterprise freight. As of April 2007 the yard handled just over 300 trains a day, evenly spread between day and night. The yard also acts as a servicing point for railtour s visiting the region, and the Smithy Lane road bridge over the northern end of the Yard is a popular location for railway photography. The Angel of the North is visible from the yard and main line on the high ground to the East. See also List of rail yards Rail transport in Great Britain References cite web url http www.tyneandwearfreight.info pdf reports Rail 20Freight 20Report 2027.04.07.pdf format pdf title Tyne and Wear Freight Partnership Rail Freight date April 2007 accessdate 19 March 2008 publisher http www.fabermaunsell.com Faber Maunsell archiveurl http www.webcitation.org 5fNZUuwPY archivedate 19 March 2009 http deaves47.users.btopenworld.com depots1.htm Depot Codes External links Commonscat Tyne Yard Category Rail yards in the United Kingdom Category Railway depots in the United Kingdom Category Transport in Tyne and Wear ... more details
for places which repair ships and boats Shipyard Infobox railfanning location name NS Ship Yard image image size caption location Richmond, Virginia Richmond , Virginia railways Richmond District Norfolk Southern Ship Yard is a rail yard on the Richmond District Norfolk Southern Richmond District in Richmond, Virginia . It is just east of Triple Crossing . Ship Yard is not often used for putting together trains, but is more for storing empty cars, especially boxcars. US rail transport stub Category Transportation in Richmond, Virginia ... more details
File Enola Yard 2012a.jpg thumb Central terminal and service area at Enola Yard in 2012. Enola Yard is a large rail yard located in East Pennsboro Township, Pennsylvania , along the western shore of the Susquehanna River at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania . It was the world s largest freight train freight yard ... page 165 url accessdate ref The yard continues to operate today at lower traffic levels. Coord 40.294666 N 76.925336 W region US PA type landmark scale 30000 display title History The yard was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad PRR in 1905 with two Classification yard Hump yards hump classification yard s. ref name Alexander1 cite book title The Pennsylvania Railroad A Pictorial History last Alexander ... 133 url accessdate ref Initially the yard processed 7,000 Railroad car Freight cars cars per day. The westbound complex had a receiving yard with 20 Rail track tracks , and a 25 track classification yard. The eastbound complex had a 21 track receiving yard and 17 classification tracks. There were no separate departure yards. ref name Rhodes Enola Yard was fully built out by the late 1920s, encompassing ... car shop. A yard to handle container freight was added to the complex in 1932. ref name PennDOT Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Harrisburg, PA 1997 . Enola Yard A Brief History. Brochure ... , starting with the eastbound hump in 1938. The eastbound yard was railway electrification electrified ... the approach of World War II , with 14,100 daily cars in October 1941. The record traffic level at the yard ... in the late 1940s. ref name PennDOT In 1953 the yard handled 11,000 cars per day, ref name Rhodes and the yard comprised 145 miles of track and 476 Railroad switch switches . ref Kraft, Edwin June 2002 , The Yard Railroading s Hidden Half. http www.trains.com trn Trains Magazine , Vol. 62, No. 6, p. 48. ref In the 1950s PRR rebuilt Conway Yard near Pittsburgh , and upon its opening in 1959, Conway became the railroad s major yard for east west traffic. Traffic at Enola Yard was reduced. ref ... more details
File Santa Fe RR Yard fsac.1a34717u detail.jpg right thumb Night view of part of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway yard at Kansas City, Kansas . March 1943. File Chicago 3 .jpg thumb A large Amtrak and Metra coach yard in Chicago, IL . About 25 percent of all rail traffic in the United States travels through the Chicago area. File Railyard LA river.jpg thumb Yard for Amtrak equipment, located next to the Los Angeles River . A rail yard , or railroad yard , is a complex series of railroad Rail ... not obstruct the flow of traffic. Railroad cars are moved around by specially designed yard switcher s, a type of locomotive. Cars in a railroad yard may be sorted by numerous categories, including ... tower to control operations. ref name Kraft Edwin Kraft, The Yard Railroading s Hidden Half. http ... composed of an Up yard and a Down yard , linked to the associated railroad direction . There are different types of yards, and different parts within a yard, depending on how they are built. Freight yards For freight car s, the overall yard layout is typically designed around a principal switching US term or shunting UK technique A hump yard has a constructed hill, over which freight cars are shoved by yard locomotives, and then gravity is used to propel the cars to various sorting tracks A gravity yard is built on a natural slope and relies less on locomotives A flat yard has no hump, and relies on locomotives for all car movements. Hump yard and gravity yard tracks are equipped with mechanical ... tracks. A large freight yard complex may include the following components Receiving yard, also called an arrival yard, where locomotives are detached from freight cars, cars are inspected for mechanical problems, and sent to a classification yard Classification yard US and by Canadian National Railway in Canada or Marshalling yard UK and Canadian Pacific Railway in Canada where cars are sorted for various destinations and assembled into blocks this is also known as sorting yard ... more details
Infobox company name Engine Yard logo caption type Privately held company Private traded as fate predecessor ... Engine Yard Cloud, Engine Yard Managed, Orchestra PHP Cloud services revenue operating income ... divisions subsid homepage URL http www.engineyard.com footnotes intl Engine Yard is a San Francisco ... http www.engineyard.com company title Engine Yard, Inc. publisher Engine Yard accessdate 2012 04 06 ref Engine Yard is one of the leading PaaS players for Ruby on Rails and PHP developers. ref http www.networkworld.com slideshow 32927?source NWWNLE nlt daily pm 2012 02 27 slide11 ref Engine Yard supports ... http www.infoworld.com d application development infoworld review engine yard cloud 180355?page ... ref Engine Yard solutions are charged on a pay as you go basis. ref http www.engineyard.com products cloud pricing ref Engine Yard provides extensive tutorials, videos, and podcasts to help developers ... d application development infoworld review engine yard cloud 180355?page 0,1&source fssr ref Engine Yard brings expertise, uptime guarantees and promises of performance and scale. ref ...?pgno 8 ref History Engine Yard, founded in 2006, offers a deployment platform with fully managed services ... helps boost engine yards cloud computing efforts with capital infusion 2701 ref Engine Yard co founders include Tom Mornini and Lance Walley. ref http www.cloudtweaks.com 2010 09 engine yard interview with tom mornini cto and co founder ref John Dillon joined Engine Yard as CEO in 2009, and previously ... yard ceo john dillon talks about competing against his old company salesforce com ref In August 2011, Engine Yard acquired Orchestra, bringing PHP expertise to the Engine Yard team and platform. ref cite web url http www.crn.com news cloud 231500593 engine yard conducts orchestra acquisition adds php paas.htm jsessionid tKls5V6yg8TtOtFi2zYzcQ .ecappj02 title Engine Yard Conducts Orchestra Acquisition ... launched Engine Yard Platform Services, a worldwide partner program encompassing over 40 ... more details
Linwood Yard is one of the largest classification yard classification railroad yards in North Carolina . The yard is operated by Norfolk Southern Railway NS . The yard is located convert 3 mi km north of Salisbury, North Carolina Salisbury off Interstate 85 in North Carolina Interstate 85 in Davidson County, North Carolina Davidson County , west of Linwood, North Carolina Linwood . The yard is on the edge of the NS Charlotte District and Danville District, and the Asheville District is nearby in Salisbury. History Linwood Yard started operations in 1979 for the Southern Railway U.S. Southern Railway , before the NS merger. The project cost 49 million to build. The yard is convert 275 acre km2 and convert 4.5 mi km long and consists of more than convert 65 mi km of rail tracks track . The yard facilities include diesel locomotive repair shops, which replaced older facilities at the nearby Southern Railway s Spencer Shops Spencer Shops . ref http www.northcarolinatravels.com museums nc transportation museum index.htm North Carolina Transportation Museum History of Spencer Shops. Accessed 2009 06 17. ref Current operation More than the 20 freight train s are handled by Linwood Yard every day. More than 1,000 employees serve the yard, and the yard reassembles more than 3,000 railroad car cars a day. References reflist This sentence should probably go into another article The yard is one of the largest major classification yards in North Carolina in addition to CSX s Hamlet Yard. Category Norfolk Southern Railway Category Rail infrastructure in North Carolina Category Rail yards in the United States Category Southern Railway US US rail transport stub ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 The square yard is an Imperial unit imperial U.S. customary unit US customary non metric system metric unit of area , formerly used in most of the English language English speaking world but now generally replaced by the square metre outside of the U.S., Canada and the U.K. It is defined as the area of a square geometry square with sides of one yard three Foot length feet , thirty six inch es, 0.9144 metre s in length . Gaj in Hindi Symbols There is no universally agreed symbol but the following are used square yards, square yard, square yds, square yd sq yards, sq yard, sq yds, sq yd, sq.yd. yards 2, yard 2, yds 2, yd 2 yards 2, yard 2, yds 2, yd 2 yards , yard , yds , yd Conversions One square yard is equivalent to 1,296 square inch es Nine square foot square feet 0.00020661157 acre s 0.000000322830579 square mile s 836 127.36 square millimetres 8 361.2736 square centimetre s 0.83612736 square metre s 0.00000083612736 See also 1 E 1 m for a comparison with other areas Cubic yard Orders of magnitude area Conversion of units Area geometry Square algebra , Square root DEFAULTSORT Square Yard Category Units of area Category Imperial units Category Customary units in the United States ast Yarda cuadrada ca Iarda quadrada de Square yard es Yarda cuadrada fa mk pt Jarda quadrada ru simple Square yard zh ... more details
Infobox railfanning location name Fulton Yard location Richmond, Virginia Richmond Virginia railways Peninsula Subdivision Fulton Yard is a rail yard on CSX Transportation s Peninsula Subdivision in Richmond, Virginia . It has 13 tracks. See also List of rail yards US rail transport stub Category CSX Transportation Category Rail infrastructure in Virginia Category Rail yards in the United States Category Transportation in Richmond, Virginia ... more details
The MacMillan Yard is the largest Classification yard rail classification yard in Canada . It is operated by Canadian National Railway CN and is located 20 kilometers north of downtown Toronto in Vaughan, Ontario . It is named after former CN president Norman John MacMillan . MacMillan Yard is located at the junction of the CN York Subdivision and CN Halton Subdivision . The yard measures 4 miles in length and 1 mile in width with a north south orientation. The property is bordered by four main roads Highway 7 York Regional Road 7 to the south Keele Street to the east Route 73 Rutherford Road to the north Creditstone Road to the west There are five road entrances into the yard which are designated as S Yard, Jane Street, CargoFlo, Bowes, and Administration. Much of the yard is composed of side by side track, switches, humps, and control tower buildings. The yard is designed to take incoming trains and reorganize and rejoin the individual cars based on destination to create new departing trains. The yard operates 24 hours a day and handles over 1 million cars loads and empties per year. It has flat switching capability as well as both dual and single humps. In addition to car handling, other yard facilities include locomotive repair, car washing, and car repair. In one part of the yard, a CargoFlo terminal is used for transferring flowable bulk, dry bulk plastics commodities between rail cars to tanker trucks, as well as a small intermodal and RoadRailer operation. The yard was developed ... along the perimeter of the yard. The closest residential population to a track that carries dangerous goods is located approximately 150 meters from the northernmost extension of the yard near Jane Street. At the southern end of the yard, where several rail lines merge, Highway 7 provides ... Yard all trains enter and exit by way of southern end. References http www.cn.ca about safety responsible care caer news en CAERnews TorontoYard.shtml Toronto, MacMillan Yard , Canadian National Railway ... more details
The Gateway Yard of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad , located in Youngstown, Ohio , opened in the fall of 1957 and remained in operation until CSX Transportation CSX took over the P&LE and closed the yard in 1993. Gateway served as a place to sort and classify freight car s as well as an interchange with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the New York Central Railroad . Most of the cars that entered the yard were destined for Youngstown s steel mill s. History The yard itself was built on over convert 200 acre km2 of land and stretched for more than convert 5 mi km covering the distance from the Center Street Bridge to Lowellville, Ohio . ref name plerrhs.org http www.plerrhs.org gatewayproject gateway.shtm ref The yard included a classification yard , office complex, diesel locomotive servicing facilities, and railroad car car repair facilities. The yard tower and yard office are housed in the same building. It is rather large and resembles an aircraft control tower . Running in front of the tower is the yard s hump that is used in the sorting freight cars. The Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Historical Society website ref name plerrhs.org includes a list of yard structures including their blueprints. Items include The Gateway Yard at work ref http www.plerrhs.org common indviewer.php?pic 2016 ref Cars being sorted over the Hump ref http www.plerrhs.org common indviewer.php?pic 2067 ref 1993 photo showing the rear of the tower ref http donsdepot.donrossgroup.net dr0101 vm3.jpg ref The Gateway Yard Today Today the Gateway Yard sits mostly empty after being closed in 1993. Most of the tracks have been removed. However, most of the structures still stand including the yard .... Railfan ning the Gateway Yard is not hard since Ohio State Route 289 runs alongside the yard. The yard ... Tower as it stands on November 2, 2008 ref http ldlawrence.deviantart.com art The Gateway Yard 102563443 ... art Gateway Yard Tower 104721113 ref br br http illicitohio.com illicitohio pblerr.html A Walk ... more details
refimprove date March 2009 Arlington Yard is a Rail yard freight yard located on the Staten Island Railway North Shore Branch North Shore Branch Right of way transportation right of way of the Staten Island Railway in Staten Island , New York , United States . It lies west of the former Arlington Staten Island Railway station Arlington station , east of Western Avenue, and north of the Staten Island Expressway in the Port Ivory, Staten Island Port Ivory neighborhood. The yard leads into the Travis Branch of the railway, the Howland Hook Container Terminal , and the Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Bridge Arthur Kill Lift Bridge to Elizabeth, New Jersey and the Chemical Coast . ref name panynj cite web url http www.panynj.gov DoingBusinessWith seaport html howland hook.html title Howland Hook Marine Terminal publisher Port Authority of New York and New Jersey accessdate 2009 03 28 Dead link date October 2010 bot H3llBot ref See also Linden Yard List of railroad yards in New York City References reflist External links http www.flickr.com photos jag9889 5846972800 Photo of Arlington Yard The yard is located at coord 40.6333 74.1745 display inline,title type railwaystation region US NY name Arlington yard Category Rail freight transportation in New York City Category Staten Island Railway Category Rail yards in the United States NYC transport stub ... more details
Other uses Refimprove date January 2011 File New Scotland Yard sign 3.jpg thumb 210px New Scotland Yard, London Scotland Yard is a metonym for the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service of the British ... at 4 Whitehall Place, which had a rear entrance on a street called Great Scotland Yard . ref name ... ref The Scotland Yard entrance became the public entrance to the police station. Over time, the street ... Street gave its name to the New York financial world, Scotland Yard did the same for police activity in London. ref name Farnsworth Farnsworth, Clyde H. Move is planned by Scotland Yard, The New York Times, May 15, 1964. ref The Metropolitan Police moved away from Scotland Yard in 1890, and the name New Scotland Yard was adopted for the new headquarters. History The Metropolitan Police Commonly ... Yard street Great Scotland Yard . File New Scotland Yard Victorian building Big Ben 1890.jpg thumb 220px The original New Scotland Yard, now called the Norman Shaw Buildings By 1887, The Met headquarters ... and 22 Whitehall Place 8 and 9 Great Scotland Yard, and several stables. ref name definition1 Eventually .... In 1890, police headquarters moved to the new location, which was named New Scotland Yard . By this time ... of the force required even more administrators, and in 1907 and 1940, New Scotland Yard was extended ... Yard . Stables for some of the Metropolitan Police Mounted Branch are still located at 7 Great Scotland Yard, across the street from the first headquarters. By the 1960s the requirements of modern ... Embankment headquarters. In 1967 New Scotland Yard moved to the present building at 10 Broadway, still ... term lease the first New Scotland Yard is now called the Norman Shaw North building, part of which ... Service Structure senior management team , who oversee the service, is based at New Scotland Yard, along ... at the three Central Communications Command Metcall complexes, rather than at Scotland Yard. A number of security measures were added to the exterior of New Scotland Yard during the 2000s, including ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 A cubic yard is an Imperial unit Imperial U.S. customary unit U.S. customary non SI non Metric system metric unit of volume , used in the United States , Canada, and the UK. It is defined as the volume of a cube with sides of 1 yard 3 Foot length feet , 36 inch es, 0.9144 metre s in length . Symbols There is no universally agreed symbol but the following are used cubic yards, cubic yard, cubic yds, cubic yd cu yards, cu yard, cu yds, cu yd, CYs yards 3, yard 3, yds 3, yd 3 yards 3, yard 3, yds 3, yd 3 yards , yard , yds , yd Conversions 1 cubic yard is equivalent to 46 656 cubic inch es 27 cubic foot cubic feet 0.000000000183 cubic mile s 21.6962157 U.S. bushel s 201.974 U.S. liquid gallon s 4.80890476 crude barrel s 0.764554857984 cubic metre s 764.554858 litre s 764 554 858 cubic millimetre s 764 554.858 cubic centimetre s 0.000000000765 cubic kilometre s See also 1 E 1 m for a comparison with other volumes Square yard Orders of magnitude volume Conversion of units Cube arithmetic , cube root Cubic equation , cubic function DEFAULTSORT Cubic Yard Category Units of volume Category Imperial units Category Customary units in the United States de Cubic yard es Yarda c bica fa it Iarda cubica ja pt Jarda c bica ... more details
Douglas Dale Yard was appointed a judge of the Family Division of the Court of Queen s Bench of Manitoba on October 7, 1998. His appointment was effective on October 13, 1998. He replaced Madam Justice C.M. Bowman, who had chosen to become a supernumerary judge. Mr. Justice Yard graduated in law from the University of Manitoba in 1974 and was called to the Bar of Manitoba in 1975. Mr. Justice Yard had been practising law with the Winnipeg law firm of Levine, Levene, Tadman, primarily in the areas of civil and criminal litigation, with an emphasis on family and child protection matters. Mr. Justice Yard also served as counsel to The Children s Aid Society. Mr. Justice Yard has been a Bencher of the Law Society since 1992 and has lectured extensively on various subjects related to family law and child protection. References http www.justice.gc.ca en news ja 1998 ma1007.html Government of Canada News Release accessed August 3, 2007 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Yard, Douglas ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Canadian judge DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Yard, Douglas Category Judges in Manitoba Category University of Manitoba alumni Category Living people Canada law bio stub ... more details
File BalmeryYardHump.JPG thumb Balmer yard control tower and hump Balmer Yard is a rail yard located in the Interbay, Seattle Interbay neighborhood of Seattle, Washington . The yard is owned by BNSF Railway , and was built by predecessor Great Northern Railway U.S. Great Northern Railway as Interbay Yard . As part of a modernization in the late 1960s, which included a 16 track hump yard hump , ref Michael Rhodes, North American Railyards, MBI Publishing Company , 2003, p. 38 ref it was renamed after former GN vice president Thomas Balmer . ref Moody s Transportation Manual , 1969, p. 51 ref The nearby engine servicing area is still known as Interbay. The yard is over convert 80 acre m2 in size and has 41 parallel tracks for switching rail switching rolling stock cars . ref citation url http www.eho.wa.gov searchdocuments 2003 20Archive pchb 2002 224 20summary 20judgment.htm publisher Washington State Environmental Hearings Office date June 25, 2003 title BNSF v. Ecology accessdate 2009 01 20 ref See also List of rail yards References reflist coord 47.644214 122.381017 display title type landmark Category BNSF Railway Category Rail infrastructure in Washington state Category Rail yards in the United States Category Transportation in Seattle, Washington Category Great Northern Railway U.S. Great Northern Railway US rail transport stub ... more details
Conway Yard is a major rail yard located in Conway, Pennsylvania , convert 22 mi km northwest of Pittsburgh , along the Ohio River . It was the largest freight train freight yard in the world from the late 1950s through the 1970s. ref name Kraft Edwin Kraft, The Yard Railroading s Hidden Half. http www.trains.com trn Trains Magazine , Vol. 62, No. 6, June 2002. p. 48. ref ref cite book title Norfolk Southern Railway last Borkowski first Richard C. authorlink coauthors year 2008 publisher Voyageur ... by Norfolk Southern Railway NS and is the second largest yard in the United States. ref name Rhodes ... is Bailey Yard in North Platte, Nebraska . ref cite web title Bailey Yard History url http www.goldenspiketower.com ... 04 08 ref History File Conway Yard 1941a.jpg thumb right Conway Yard in 1941 Conway Yard was initially ... W.C. date 1905 05 12 title Progress in Yard Design journal The Railroad Gazette volume XXXVIII issue ... false accessdate ref The enlarged yard was one of four built in Pennsylvania at that time, as part of a major PRR expansion. The others were Altoona Yard, Enola Yard , and Harrisburg Intermodal Yard Harrisburg Yard . ref name Rhodes The PRR began rebuilding the yard in 1953. The new eastbound yard opened ... Enola Yard. Conway was rebuilt with both eastbound and westbound hump classification yards ... PRR 20Conway 20Yard.pdf Conway Yard on the Pennsylvania Railroad. Brochure. ref A 1958 publication describes a total of 107 classification tracks. The westbound hump yard was outfitted with an automatic ... . http prr.railfan.net documents ConwayYard.html Conway Yard. Bulletin 172. ref It was described as the world s largest push button yard. ref name PRR Brochure 1957 The eastbound hump yard was installed ... to rail cars was located at the south end of the yard. ref name PRR Inspection Trip rp 11 Current ... of rail yards References Reflist External links http www.swparails.com gallery v Conway Yard 21st century photos of Conway Yard http thecrhs.org ConrailFacilities Yards Conway Photos of Conway Yard from ... more details
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