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6 unusual facts about Haul


Diary of a Mad Black Woman

On their 18th anniversary, Helen awakens to find all of her belongings packed in a U-Haul truck with Charles kicking her out of the house in favor of Brenda (Lisa Marcos), his young mistress, the mother of his two children.

Moving McAllister

Rick soon finds himself stuck in a grueling cross country road trip driving a rundown U-Haul truck carrying all his boss's worldly possessions.

Terrel Bell

Bell stood out as a humble man in an administration of moneyed people—he drove a U-Haul truck from Utah to Washington when he moved, probably the only member of the Reagan cabinet to do so.

U-Haul

In 1945, at the age of 29, Leonard Shoen co-founded U-Haul with his wife, Anna Mary Carty, in the town of Ridgefield, Washington.

The company was founded by Leonard Shoen (L. S. "Sam" Shoen) in Ridgefield, Washington, who began it in the garage owned by his wife's family, and expanded through franchising with gas stations.

U-Haul lesbian

A joke which references U-Haul (a brand of rental "move it yourself" trucks and trailers) became well known in North American lesbian culture.


2010 Catalunya GP2 Series round

At that point he seemed out of contention, but the Briton produced a stunning drive from the back of the grid, reminicest of Lewis Hamilton's drive through the field in Turkey 2006, to haul himself back up to ninth at the finish, falling just 1.6s short of taking the final point and sprint race pole from Ocean Racing's Fabio Leimer.

468th Bombardment Group

The initial mission of the 468th in India was to use their aircraft to haul bombs, fuel, ammunition and spare parts 1,200 miles to its advanced base at Field A-7, Pengshan, Szechwan Provience, China.

Aero Spacelines Mini Guppy

Erickson Air Crane used the Mini Guppy to haul heavy equipment until 1995, when it was retired to the Tillamook Air Museum in Tillamook, Oregon, where it resides today.

Africa West Airlines

Africa West operates long-haul flights from the hub, Lomé (LFW) to Liege (LGG), Dubai (DXB) and Johannesburg.

Atlantic Star Airlines

Due to its payload/range capability and favourable runway requirements Atlantic Star Airlines plans to acquire a used Boeing 757-200 with retrofitted winglets which will be specially adapted to carry fewer passengers and more fuel for the long haul flights.

Belgian International Air Services

Long-haul flight operations with BIAS had already ended in February 1973, when Compagnie Maritime Belge, its majority shareholder at that time, decided that the fleet of Douglas DC-8 aircraft be integrated into Delta Air Transport.

Boeing 747-8

The 747-8, as the current new development of Boeing's largest airliner, is notably in direct competition on long-haul routes with the Airbus A380, a full-length double-deck aircraft now in service.

Brabazon Committee

Type II was a short haul feederliner intended to replace the Douglas DC-3 and de Havilland Dragon Rapide, although BEA suggested a larger and much more capable design.

British Rail Class 47

Riviera Trains is a company based at Crewe with a fleet of locomotives which are mainly used to haul charter trains.

Burlington, West Virginia

The freight station of Twin Mountain and Potomac Railroad, which was built in 1911 to haul fruit from the mountain to Keyser, has also served as the post office and currently houses a branch of the Keyser-Mineral County Library.

Dalli-Rajhara–Jagdalpur rail line

The proposed Dalli-RajharaJagdalpur Rail Line has two main objectives: to haul iron ore from the proposed Rowghat mines needed for Bhilai Steel Plant of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) located in Bhilai city of Chhattisgarh state, and to cater to passenger and goods transport needs of those residing along and in the influence zone of the rail line till Jagdalpur, another city in Chhattisgarh state.

Danny Birt

"Booty Haul" in the anthology Rum and Runestones (Dragon Moon Press, 2010)

Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad

It was the railway which Gustaf Nordenskiöld employed to haul boxcars of relics from the Mesa Verde, Colorado, cliff dwellings, in 1891, en route to the National Museum of Finland.

Eck Stadium

This number does not include the Coleman Outfield Hill, made during the original construction because of lack of funding to haul the dirt away, which can seat hundreds more.

Edina Mill

This was a direct result of the fact that prior to these mills, farmers had to haul their grain in horse-drawn wagons over long distances to the mills at Saint Anthony Falls along the Mississippi River.

Ellamore, West Virginia

In 1917, Moore-Keppel formed a coal division, the Three Forks Coal Company, which operated a mine near Cassity, West Virginia that also utilized the logging railroad as a means to haul coal.

Evzones

During the German invasion in 1941, a memorable event occurred: on April 27, as the German Army was entering Athens, the Germans ascended to the Acropolis of Athens and ordered the young Evzone who was guarding the flag post, Konstantinos Koukidis, to haul the Greek flag down and replace it with the swastika flag.

Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles

The cab-over FMTV replaces the 2.5 ton and 5 ton M35 and M939 series of trucks and performs local and line haul, unit mobility, unit resupply, and other missions in combat, combat support and combat service support units.

GMD GF6C

The line served the Quintette and Bull-Moose coal mines, and hauled coal from said mines to an interchange with CN, where diesel power took over to haul the coal to Prince Rupert where it was loaded onto deep-sea coal carrier ships.

Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary

Within the sanctuary are the Farallon Islands and associated National Wildlife Refuge, the sanctuary protects the feeding grounds of the seabirds and seals that breed and haul out on the islands.

Hadash

The 1988 election resulted in another four-seat haul, though the party lost a seat when Charlie Biton broke away to establish Black Panthers as an independent faction on 25 December 1990.

Haulpak

Wabco recognised the importance of the off-highway Truck market and hired Ralph H. Kress to design a line of haul trucks in-house.

Jimmy Brain

Brain was a prolific striker throughout his career, and was the club's top scorer for four seasons in a row, from 1924–25 to 1928–29; this included 39 goals in the 1925–26 season (second only to Ted Drake's haul of 45 in 1934–35), which included four hat tricks.

Karrier

In 1930, this was developed into the "Cob" tractor to haul road trailers for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

Malaysia Airlines fleet

This aircraft is used to fly short-to-medium-haul routes, such as Kunming, Beijing and Chennai.

MÁV Class 242

In later years they were double-headed to haul the heavy Orient Express on the section from Budapest to Biharkeresztes.

Michael and Marisa

In it for the long haul, the talented pair are set to release their highly anticipated four-track EP titled It's Like That, in the fall of 2010, which was co-written and produced by Peter Zizzo, an award-winning songwriter who has been instrumental in developing the careers of several artists, including Avril Lavigne and Vanessa Carlton.

Milwaukee Road class F7

The Milwaukee Road's class F7 comprised six (#100–#105) high-speed, streamlined 4-6-4 "Baltic" or "Hudson" type steam locomotives built by ALCO in 1937–38 to haul the Milwaukee's Hiawatha express passenger trains.

Minarets and Western Railway

The railway was owned by the Sugar Pine Lumber Company and was built the same year the lumber company was incorporated so that it could haul timber from the forest near Minarets (northeast of Friant) to its sawmill at Pinedale (near Fresno).

Mountaineering

With the advent of cheaper, long-haul air travel, mountaineering holidays in the Greater Ranges are now undertaken much more frequently and ascents of even Everest and Vinson Massif (the highest mountain in Antarctica) are offered as a "package holiday".

Moura railway line

Before the Moura Short Line opened, the largest QR steam locomotive, known as a Garrett, could haul a 750 ton coal load to Gladstone via Rockhampton.

Ohio State Route 743

The highway then starts to bend into a more northeastly direction, as it meets Brown Road and then passes underneath the Haul Road for the nearby William H. Zimmer Power Station.

Oslo Spektrum

One of Oslo Spektrum's prime attributes is its location in the middle of Downtown Oslo, next to the Central Station, long and medium haul bus terminal, Jernbanetorget public transportation hub and only a short distance from international ferry terminals.

Oyster buy-boat

A few of them were adapted for use in the Chesapeake Bay Menhaden fishery during the 1970s and 80s but have since been retired, and some were used to haul seed oysters to replenish oyster reefs in Virginia and Maryland into the early 2000s.

Peter Heine

Heine picked up 277 first-class wickets at an average of 21.38, including a haul of 8 for 92 for Orange Free State against Transvaal in Welkom in 1954-55.

Rico Linhas Aéreas Flight 4823

Rico Linhas Aéreas Flight 4823 was a short haul domestic Brazillian flight from Cruzeiro do Sul, and Tarauacá to Rio Branco.

Role-playing game terms

Monty haul: A pun on Monty Hall (the former host of Let's Make A Deal), when equipment, abilities, and other rewards get out of hand.

Steeplecab

These were for the Tyneside Electrics system in North East England, where their job was to haul very heavy mineral trains relatively short distances but over a route that included gradients as steep as 1 in 27.

Still engine

This was loaned for trials to the London and North Eastern Railway and used successfully to haul heavy coal trains, but the difference in the cost of coal used by a conventional locomotive, against the fuel oil used by the hybrid, was not great.

Stuart Lewis-Evans

Principal drivers Stirling Moss and Tony Brooks took three victories each, and Lewis-Evans added to the team's points haul with podium finishes in the Belgian and Portuguese events.

Tayport

This large area of sand dunes and beach at the mouth of the Tay Estuary forms an important roosting and feeding area for huge congregations of seaduck, waders and wildfowl, as well as a haul-out area for over 2,000 both common and grey seals.

The Glenbrook

The Glenbrook and its sister, #2, The Tahoe were built to haul cordwood and lumber from Glenbrook, Nevada on the east shore of Lake Tahoe to Spooner Summit, at the crest of the Carson Range.

Transportes Aéreos Bolivianos

TAB was set up in 1977 as a sub-division of the Air Transport Management of the Bolivian Air Force (Fuerza Aérea Boliviana, abbreviated FAB) in 1977, originally operating on-demand medium to long-haul heavy cargo flights using a fleet of Lockheed C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft, which were based at El Alto International Airport in La Paz.

Wool 100%

Elderly sisters Ume (Kyōko Kishida) and Kame (Kazuko Yoshiyuki) spend their days dumpster diving in order to find various "treasures" that they haul back to their house, which is full of the various objects that they've collected over the years.

Württemberg T 5

The Württemberg T 5 proved itself very well and was occasionally even used to haul expresses on the Gäubahn (Stuttgart–Singen) between Immendingen and Stuttgart.


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