Prior to the rail road's coming there were just a few homes, a store, and one church.
By the 1900s Brooks began to grow due to the rail road.
The period of decline ended in 1866, when the town was connected to a new rail road.
It is much more expensive than building new rail road for coal transportation.
No rail road had been constructed to connect to the cities.
He was 16 years old and was "killed by a truck on the rail road".
As a side effect the rail road also meant the end of the faring traditions.
This rail road has been laid up in 1968.
Lamley's store was a small frame building, near the rail road, in the north end of the town.
We want twenty foot between them, for two rail roads.