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  2. Transcontinental railroad - Wikipedia

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    A transcontinental railroad or transcontinental railway is contiguous railroad trackage [1] that crosses a continental land mass and has terminals at different oceans or continental borders. Such networks may be via the tracks of a single railroad, or via several railroads owned or controlled by multiple railway companies along a continuous route.

  3. For example, before the railroads were built in the West, if a farmer were to ship a load of corn only 200 miles to Chicago, the shipping cost by wagon would exceed the price for which the corn could be sold. [6] [7] [8] So, under such circumstances, farming could not be done at a profit. Mining and other economic activity in the West were ...

  4. List of railroad crossings of the North American continental ...

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    Union Pacific Railroad 1905–1981 Branch to West Yellowstone: South Pass: Wyoming: 7,420 ft (2,262 m) [1] U.S. Steel: U.S. Steel 1962–1983 Served U.S. Steel Atlantic City Ore Mine Robinson: Wyoming: 6,940 ft (2,115 m) Union Pacific Railroad: Union Pacific Railroad: 1868–present Two sides of the Great Divide Basin; Robinson is the true ...

  5. Kingwood Tunnel - Wikipedia

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    The Kingwood Tunnel, near Tunnelton, West Virginia, was built between 1849 and 1852 by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad on its main line between Baltimore, Maryland and Wheeling, West Virginia, under the supervision of B&O chief engineer Benjamin Henry Latrobe, II.

  6. Alphabet Route - Wikipedia

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    The WM, P&WV and NKP (and later WM and Norfolk & Western, after merger of latter two lines into N&W in 1964) generally operated two daily "run-through" freight trains each way via their connection in Connellsville, Pennsylvania. The westbound trains were variously symbolled AJ-1 (Alpha Jet 1) and Advance AJ-1, 1st AJ-1 and 2nd AJ-1, then later ...

  7. Virginian Railway - Wikipedia

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    Virginian 4, the last surviving steam engine of the Virginian Railway, on display at the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke, Virginia.. Early in the 20th century, William Nelson Page, a civil engineer and coal mining manager, joined forces with a silent partner, industrialist financier Henry Huttleston Rogers (a principal of Standard Oil and one of the wealthiest men in the world ...

  8. Learn more about the first transcontinental highway at ... - AOL

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    Learn more about the first transcontinental highway at Ruthmere Museum's gallery talk ... built in 1908 and designed by architect E. Hill Turnock. ELKHART — Ruthmere Museum presents the gallery ...

  9. Midland Trail - Wikipedia

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    The Midland Trail in Ceredo, West Virginia.. The Midland Trail, also called the Roosevelt Midland Trail, was a national auto trail spanning the United States from Washington, D.C., west to Los Angeles, California and San Francisco, California (though the Lincoln Highway guide published in 1916 states the original eastern terminus was in New York City).