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2. List of U.S. Class I railroads - Wikipedia

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   Class 1 railroads with intermodal terminals and maritime RoRo ports. In the United States, railroads are designated as Class I, Class II, or Class III, according to size criteria first established by the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) in 1911, and now governed by the Surface Transportation Board (STB).

3. List of model railways - Wikipedia

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   The world's first model railway was made for the son of Emperor Napoleon III in 1859 at the Château de Saint-Cloud. [1] However, "There is a strong possibility that Matthew Murray, who built the geared-for-safety rack engines for John Blenkinsop's coal mine near Leeds, England, was actually the first man ever to make a model locomotive."

4. List of common carrier freight railroads in the United States

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   Aberdeen, Carolina and Western Railway (ACWR) Acadiana Railway (AKDN) Adams-Warnock Railway (AWRY) Adrian and Blissfield Rail Road (ADBF) Affton Terminal Services Railroad (AT) Ag Valley Railroad (AVRR) Aiken Railway (AIKR) Akron Barberton Cluster Railway (AB) Alabama and Gulf Coast Railway (AGR) (GWI) Alabama and Tennessee River Railway (ATN ...

5. List of North American rapid transit systems - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of North American rapid transit systems by ridership. These heavy rail or rapid transit systems are also known as metro or subway systems. This list of systems in North America does not include light rail , even when they are integrated with heavy rail.

6. List of rail transit systems in the United States - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of the operating passenger rail transit systems in the United States. This list does not include intercity rail services such as the Alaska Railroad or Amtrak and its state-sponsored subsidiaries. "Region" refers to the metropolitan area based around the city listed, where applicable. Operating Region State System Authority Type (FTA) Albuquerque New Mexico Rail Runner Express ...

7. Rail transportation in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The first American locomotive at Castle Point in Hoboken, New Jersey, c. 1826 The Canton Viaduct, built in 1834, is still in use today on the Northeast Corridor.. Between 1762 and 1764 a gravity railroad (mechanized tramway) (Montresor's Tramway) was built by British Army engineers up the steep riverside terrain near the Niagara River waterfall's escarpment at the Niagara Portage in Lewiston ...

8. Bullet Trains Are Coming to America. Too Bad Our Rail Lines ...

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   U.S. rail tracks are typically too old to handle the speed of new train technology. The limits of the rails can reduce the effectiveness of the train speeds, sometimes by more than 100 mph.

9. LGB (trains) - Wikipedia

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   A typical LGB model train on a garden railway layout.. LGB stands for Lehmann Gross Bahn - the "Lehmann Big Train" in German. Made by Ernst Paul Lehmann Patentwerk in Nuremberg, Germany, since 1968 [1] and by Märklin since 2007, it is the most popular garden railway model in Europe, although there are also many models of U.S. and Canadian prototypes. [2]