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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 ...
After 1940, the replacement of steam with diesel electric locomotives made for much more efficient operations that needed fewer workers on the road and in repair shops. A series of bankruptcies and consolidations left the rail system in the hands of a few large operations by the 1980s.
Davenport Central Railway [63]: 225 Steam 1878 1888 Tri-City Railway & Light Co. [63]: 226 Electric August 6, 1888 October 1936 Clinton, Davenport & Muscatine Railway [63]: 233–234 ♦ Davenport ― Clinton Electric Interurban November 20, 1904 March 31, 1940 Chartered as the Iowa & Illinois Railway and acquired by the CD&MR in 1916.
Age of Steam Roundhouse (Several operating steam locomotives, but no excursions listed) Cedar Point and Lake Erie Railroad in Cedar Point; Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad; Hocking Valley Scenic Railway; Kings Island & Miami Valley Railroad in Kings Island; Lake Shore Railway Association (Lorain and West Virginia Railway) [3] Lebanon Mason ...
1795–96 & 1799–1804 or '05 — In 1795, Charles Bulfinch, the architect of Boston's famed State House first employed a temporary funicular railway with specially designed dumper cars to decapitate 'the Tremont's' Beacon Hill summit and begin the decades long land reclamation projects which created most of the real estate in Boston's lower elevations of today from broad mud flats, such as ...
A junction on the underground freight railway network built by the defunct Chicago Tunnel Company. A steam train on a revived segment of the Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad in Maine. A Crown Metal Products-built train on Hersheypark's Dry Gulch Railroad in Pennsylvania in 1966. A list of 2 ft (610 mm) narrow-gauge railways in the United ...
Southern Railway "Maud" 1509 is an A class 0-4-4T type steam locomotive and the oldest surviving steam locomotive of the Southern Railway. The engine was built by Baldwin in December 1879 for the Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line Railway , originally numbered 27 and named Talullah .
Grand Canyon Railway 29: Steam 2-8-0 SC-3 1906 built Grand Canyon Railway, Williams, Arizona: AZ-06 Grand Canyon Railway 4960: Steam 2-8-2 O-1A 1923 built Grand Canyon Railway, Williams, Arizona: CA-01 Robert Dollar Co. No. 3: Steam 2-6-2T: 1927 built Brightside, California: Last wood-burning locomotive built for a U.S. company; operates on ...