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September 12 [O.S. August 30] 1870 – Russian emperor Alexander II inaugurates through services between Saint Petersburg and Helsinki (Finnish Railways).September 12 – Completion of the Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad from Portland, Maine to Sebago Lake causes abandonment of the parallel Cumberland and Oxford Canal.
With its extensive river system, the United States supported a large array of horse-drawn or mule-drawn barges on canals and paddle wheel steamboats on rivers that competed with railroads after 1815 until the 1870s. The canals and steamboats lost out because of the dramatic increases in efficiency and speed of the railroads, which could go ...
The land rush climaxed in the 1870s in Minnesota, Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas, as the population more than doubled from 1.0 million in 1870 to 2.4 million in 1880, while the number of farms tripled from 99,000 to 302,000, and the improved acreage quintupled from 5.0 million acres to 24.6 million. [16]
St. Louis, Council Bluffs and Omaha Railroad: WAB: 1870 1924 Wabash Railway: St. Louis and Fort Scott Railroad: RI: 1870 1871 Missouri Central Railway: St. Louis and Gulf Railway: SLSF: 1902 1904 St. Louis, Memphis and Southeastern Railroad: St. Louis and Hannibal Railroad: SL&H, SLH 1917 1944 N/A St. Louis and Hannibal Railway: 1885 1917 St ...
The Routledge Historical Atlas of the American Railroads (2001) Stover, John. History of the Illinois Central Railroad (1975) Stover, John. Iron Road to the West: American Railroads in the 1850s (1978) Turner, George E. Victory rode the rails: the strategic place of the railroads in the Civil War (1953) Ward, James Arthur. J.
After the completion of the tunnels, the Blue Ridge Railroad was operated by the Virginia Central Railroad (which paid annual fees to the Commonwealth of Virginia for its use) until it was bought by and incorporated into the Virginia Central's successor road, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, in 1870. [5]
Hunter's Point and South Side Railroad: LI: 1870 1872 South Side Railroad of Long Island: International Bridge Company: CN: 1857 1956 Canadian National Railway: Island Railroad: 1883 Ithaca and Athens Railroad: LV: 1870 1874 Geneva, Ithaca and Athens Railroad: Ithaca, Auburn and Western Railroad: LV: 1876 1890 Auburn and Ithaca Railway: Ithaca ...
Waco and Northwestern Railroad: SP: 1870 1873 Houston and Texas Central Railway: Waco Tap Railroad: SP: 1866 1870 Waco and Northwestern Railroad: Warren Central Railroad: SP: 1930 1934 Texas and New Orleans Railroad: Warren and Corsicana Pacific Railway: 1899 1908 N/A Washington County Railroad: SP: 1856 1868 Houston and Texas Central Railway ...