About: Dock Railway   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

Unlike the sister series, engines in TUGS do not have faces, and speak with megaphones, although Puffa was the only engine that could speak. The railway and The Goods Engine seem to be based on the New York Dock Railway, which was located alongside the Hudson River, in New York City. It carried out a very similar purpose to the Dock Railway in the TUGS TV series, and even had car float docks and Railway Tugs.

AttributesValues
rdfs:label
  • Dock Railway
rdfs:comment
  • Unlike the sister series, engines in TUGS do not have faces, and speak with megaphones, although Puffa was the only engine that could speak. The railway and The Goods Engine seem to be based on the New York Dock Railway, which was located alongside the Hudson River, in New York City. It carried out a very similar purpose to the Dock Railway in the TUGS TV series, and even had car float docks and Railway Tugs.
  • The Dock Railway came to being when in 1874, English-American entrepenuer Ronald Jones opened what he essentially called a "dock railway", to service the docks and warehouses along the waterfront of Bigg City. Originally with only man-powered carts, the company recieved its first big break when it opened passenger service. With the money, they were able to buy their first two locomotives, Jim and Bob. The business skyrocketed, and they eventually opened a line to Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania the following year. They bought more locomotives, and, in 1885, it officially became the Dock Railway.
dcterms:subject
abstract
  • Unlike the sister series, engines in TUGS do not have faces, and speak with megaphones, although Puffa was the only engine that could speak. The railway and The Goods Engine seem to be based on the New York Dock Railway, which was located alongside the Hudson River, in New York City. It carried out a very similar purpose to the Dock Railway in the TUGS TV series, and even had car float docks and Railway Tugs.
  • The Dock Railway came to being when in 1874, English-American entrepenuer Ronald Jones opened what he essentially called a "dock railway", to service the docks and warehouses along the waterfront of Bigg City. Originally with only man-powered carts, the company recieved its first big break when it opened passenger service. With the money, they were able to buy their first two locomotives, Jim and Bob. The business skyrocketed, and they eventually opened a line to Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania the following year. They bought more locomotives, and, in 1885, it officially became the Dock Railway. In 1909, the company created the Countywide Trolley Co. as a subsidiary, which operated from 1909 until bankruptcy in 1912, after the main locomotive sheds and yards were destroyed by the Great Storm of 1912.
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software