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In Mile 1, tractors may be conducting cut-and-fill excavations to level the grade of the highway, and large trucks are bringing in extra fill dirt to build up roadbed elevations for traffic ramps.
On appeal, the state supreme court emphasized that to prevail in a quiet title action, McRae needed to establish ownership of the roadbed on the strength of her own title and could not rely on weaknesses in SSI's title.
The city has mixed shredded tire rubber with the soil for the roadbed on 200 feet of temporary road, according to the report.
The trail follows the former roadbed of the Chicago-Milwaukee-St.
I set the teeth a few millimeters below the roadbed for the first pass, then gradually lowered them until I had loosened 2 inches of rock and gravel.
* Installation Method of the Encasement Directional drilling operations will reduce the potential for voids under the roadbed due to the reduction of material removal.
While many model railroaders rely on muscle to shape the roadbed, apply ballast and maintain their rights of way, a pair of little-locomotive enthusiasts from Kalamazoo, Mich., created an easier way.
(This rail roadbed is generally the alignment of today's Route 1.) Some 180 photos.
Previously the pavements were composed of asphalt and roadbed layer, which do not absorb moisture.
Today the company's fine mesh material is shipped primarily for use as an asphalt additive in roadbed construction and repair.
Patent #6,802,669, published October 12, 2004, by Peter Ianniello, Giovanni Capra, and Algen Zhao of Maryland deals with the problem of water transport under a roadbed. Different departments of transportation have shown that the cost of improperly draining a roadbed could be as much as $500,000 per mile when the costs of safety and repairs are considered.
In this place--where one might park a truck or turn a trick--a single street lamp pooled its glow on a stained concrete roadbed and a curb complete with municipal storm drain and manhole cover.
These include the Old Railroad Depot in downtown Tuscumbia on 5th Street even though the tracks have been removed except for a small section where a static display of a caboose and boxcar are located and a curious pattern of old weathered asphalt on 5th Street revealing where the old roadbed is located.
The poems paint indelible word pictures: "Sumac thickets by the roadbed, either side, spangled by snow, and the big moon's light.