Executive Summary. Recent legislation authorized the Department of General Services (DGS) to sell and then lease back 11 stateâowned office properties. The saleâleaseback is designed to free up the stateâs equity in the buildings to provide oneâtime revenue for addressing the stateâs current budgetary shortfall.
Our Virginia railroad injury / disease law firm has been representing railroad workers ( transport workers such as engineers , switchman , conductors ) who claim various health illnesses including cancer as a result of being exposed to radioactive substances moved by railroads in and out of a nuclear weapons and uranium enrichment nuclear plants / ...
Railroads in the 1800s for kids: Timeline of the Trains, Inventors and Innovators. The timeline of the famous men, innovators and inventors who developed the railroads and the steam locomotives: 1814: George Stephenson constructed a locomotive that could pull 30 tons up a hill at 4 mph. 1  Stephenson called his locomotive, the Blutcher. He is considered to be the inventor of the first steam locomotive engine for railways.