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  2. "A Macro-scale Look at Railroad History." Railroad History (Fall/Winter 2012), Issue 207, pp 78–89. Riegel, Robert Edgar. The Story of the Western Railroads (1926) online; Saunders, Richard. Main lines: Rebirth of the North American railroads, 1970–2002 (Northern Illinois UP, 2003). Stover, John. History of the Illinois Central Railroad ...

  3. Timeline of United States railway history - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Pennsylvania Railroad - Wikipedia

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    Pennsylvania Railroad system map in 1893. The Pennsy's charter was supplemented on March 23, 1853, to allow it to purchase stock and guarantee bonds of railroads in other states, up to a percentage of its capital stock. Several lines were then aided by the Pennsy in hopes to secure additional traffic.

  6. Timeline of railway history - Wikipedia

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    The railroad company extended its existing rail that ran between Charleston and the Savannah River to the north toward Orangeburg and Columbia. Both rail lines closely paralleled old Native American trails. 1838 – Edmondson railway ticket introduced. 1839 – The first railway in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, Italy, opened from Naples to ...

  7. Railroads in New England - Wikipedia

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    The Boston and Maine similarly swallowed up a number of smaller railroads in central New England during this time period, such as the Boston and Lowell, the Connecticut River Railroad, and the Northern Railroad. [16] In 1900, the New York Central Railroad leased the Boston and Albany Railroad, though it continued to operate as a subsidiary. [17]

  8. History of rail in Oregon - Wikipedia

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    A map of Willamette Valley rail lines from 1919. Byron J. Pengra, the Surveyor General of Oregon from 1862 to 1865, secured a federal land grant in 1864 for the Oregon Central Military Wagon Road from Eugene to Owyhee, and proposed a railroad along this line, then joining the transcontinental railroad near Winnemucca, Nevada. Pengra ...

  9. List of Indiana railroads - Wikipedia

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    C&NC Railroad, CSX Transportation, Evansville Terminal Company, Fulton County Railroad, Hoosier Southern Railroad, Maumee and Western Railroad, Wabash Central Railroad: Indiana and Illinois Railway: GTW: 1900 1900 Grand Trunk Western Railway: Indiana and Illinois Central Railway: B&O: 1853 1875 Indianapolis, Decatur and Springfield Railway

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