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    MorrisonKnudsen (MK) was an American civil engineering and construction company, with headquarters in Boise, Idaho. MK designed and constructed major...
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    Corporation. From 1988 to 1995, Agee was the chairman, president, and CEO of Morrison-Knudsen. Agee was a business consultant, venture capitalist, and chairman of...
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  • Morrison of Morrison-Knudsen to join them. After they realized the bid would be much higher than expected, the Wattis Brothers and Morrison-Knudsen convinced...
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  • In 1996, the much smaller Washington Construction Group merged with Morrison-Knudsen Corp. of Boise, which had been in financial difficulty. On May 28,...
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    VIA Rail in Canada. Additional F40PH variants were manufactured by Morrison-Knudsen and MotivePower between 1988 and 1998, mostly rebuilt from older locomotives...
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  • locomotives. The company traces its history back to being a division of Morrison-Knudsen (MK) since 1972. After MotivePower spun-off from MK, the company merged...
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    MK Rail division by the Morrison Knudsen group and the purchase of a manufacturing facility in Boise. In 1994 Morrison Knudsen created a subsidiary MK...
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    to the R42 fleet. In the late 1980s, the R42 cars were rebuilt by MorrisonKnudsen and the Coney Island Rapid Transit Car Overhaul Shop. The R160 order...
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    various types to Morrison-Knudsen, who were also building the new California Cars based on the Superliner design. Morrison-Knudsen unveiled the first...
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    75 mph (141.22 km/h). In the early 1990s, the R44 cars were rebuilt by MorrisonKnudsen for the New York City Transit Authority. Though the R160 order replaced...
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    them to be referred to as "the most troubled cars ever purchased". MorrisonKnudsen rebuilt the R46s in 1990–1992. The R211 order is replacing the entire...
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    rebuilt by General Electric and the remaining cars being rebuilt by MorrisonKnudsen. As part of the refurbishment, the original rollsigns and express/local...
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    Construction acquired global construction and engineering company Morrison-Knudsen Corporation of Boise, Idaho, creating Washington Group International...
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    mineral fields in Shaba (Katanga). It was primarily constructed by Morrison-Knudsen International, an American engineering company, with the converter...
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    National awarded Morrison Knudsen Australia a contract to remanufacture the CLs at its Whyalla factory. As part of the deal, Morrison Knudsen purchased the...
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  • visitors annually. Velma Morrison (1920–2013) was the second wife and widow of Harry Morrison (1885–1971), co-founder of Morrison-Knudsen Corporation. Completed...
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  • Connecting Railroad MKCX - Morrison-Knudsen MKFX - Century Rail Enterprises MKIX - M-K Railroad Equipment Leasing Company; Morrison-Knudsen MKNR - Mackenzie Northern...
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    cars were built in the mid-1990s for the Caltrans Division of Rail by MorrisonKnudsen and the American Passenger Rail Car Company (Amerail). The cars are...
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    by the Morrison Family Foundation, and the park is named in memory of Ann Daly Morrison, spouse of Morrison-Knudsen cofounder Harry W. Morrison. Idaho...
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    set of GP40 locomotives called GP40FH-2s, which were completed by Morrison Knudsen between 1987 and 1990. These locomotives combine the standard cab and...
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    personnel and about 1,221 civilian workers from the American firm Morrison-Knudsen Corp. The base plan was not complete at the time the war started, and...
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    fire damaged 702 but the plan was cancelled and both scrapped 12 to Morrison Knudsen Australia who intended to rebuild these locomotives to haul roadrailer...
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    the bridge. Morrison-Knudsen of Portugal Ltd., an American firm based in Boise, Idaho, was U.S. Steel's principal associate. Morrison-Knudsen had previously...
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    Industries and Morrison-Knudsen. In 1979 Morrison-Knudsen bought out Kaiser's share, and in 1989 management acquired the company from Morrison-Knudsen via an...
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    International Engineering Company, Inc. (IECO) was a subsidiary of Morrison-Knudsen. See "Morrison-Knudsen Company, Inc". Baker Library, Harvard Business School....
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    were 68 U.S. Navy personnel. About 1,221 civilian workers for the Morrison-Knudsen Civil Engineering Company were present on the island for the construction...
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    (1946-02-26)February 26, 1946) was a Canadian civil engineer and employee of Morrison-Knudsen, who later became in 1931, the General Construction Superintendent...
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    1959, and received air conditioning by 1982. The fleet was rebuilt by MorrisonKnudsen between 1985 and 1987. The R26s were replaced in 2001 and 2002 with...
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    1987–88 into the Comet IB cab control cars and trailer coaches by Morrison-Knudsen at the Hornell, New York shop. Three Arrow Is, 519, 521 and 523, were...
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  • Montreal Kosher, known as MK, a Canadian kosher certification agency Morrison-Knudsen, an engineering and construction firm Macedonian language (ISO 639...
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