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The wooden bat circuit allows communities deemed too small for professional ball to continue to enjoy high-quality, competitive baseball during the summer months. The Northwoods League was the first summer collegiate baseball league to broadcast on the ESPN network, and currently webcasts all of its games.
Rotary Railcar Dumper at 45-Degree Rotation. A rotary car dumper or wagon tippler (UK) is a mechanism used for unloading certain railroad cars such as hopper cars, gondolas or mine cars (tipplers, UK).
The Chicago and North Western (reporting mark CNW) was a Class I railroad in the Midwestern United States.It was also known as the "North Western".The railroad operated more than 5,000 miles (8,000 km) of track at the turn of the 20th century, and over 12,000 miles (19,000 km) of track in seven states before retrenchment in the late 1970s.
Models: H, F, K, G, L The Model F was a completely different type of truck than the Auto Wagon, with a steel ladder frame. It had a "Renault-type" tapered hood, oftern referred to as a coffin-nose or shovelnose.
Largest wooden cargo ship ever built in Canada. It passed to Norwegian ownership in 1883 and was converted into a barge in 1891. Sank while under tow at Dakar. [11] 101.7 m (333 ft 8 in) 17.4 m (57 ft 1 in) Richelieu: 1873–1911 scrapped A wooden-hulled central battery ironclad that served in the French Navy's Mediterranean Squadron. 101.1 m ...
The crew of Constitution under Commander Matt Bonner sailed Constitution under her own power on 19 August 2012, the anniversary of her victory over Guerriere. [247] Bonner was Constitution ' s 72nd commanding officer. [248] On 18 May 2015, the ship entered Dry Dock 1 in Charlestown Navy Yard to begin a two-year restoration program. The ...
Tipper Gore drumming with Mickey Hart during a The Dead appearance in April 2009 In high school, Gore was the drummer for an all-female band called the Wildcats. [ 14 ] [ 27 ] She has played drums with members of the Grateful Dead , and during the second night of the Spring 2009 Dead tour, Tipper Gore sat in playing drums during the closing ...
Some articulated trams have bogies located under articulations, a setup referred to as a Jacobs bogie. Often, low-floor trams are fitted with nonpivoting bogies; many tramway enthusiasts see this as a retrograde step, as it leads to more wear of both track and wheels and also significantly reduces the speed at which a tram can round a curve.