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Railroads soon replaced many canals and turnpikes and by the 1870s had significantly displaced steamboats as well. [42] The railroads were superior to these alternative modes of transportation, particularly water routes because they lowered costs in two ways.
The owners lobbied heavily in Washington for money to build a railroad from Kansas City to Colorado, and then to California. It failed to get funding to go west of Colorado. It operated many of the first long-distance lines in the state of Kansas in the 1870s, extending the national railway network westward across that state and into Colorado.
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 ...
1870 1879 Lexington and Southern Railway: Lexington and St. Louis Railroad: MP: 1859 1877 St. Louis and Lexington Railroad: Lexington and Southern Railway: MP: 1879 1880 Missouri Pacific Railway: Linneus Branch of the Burlington and Southwestern Railway: CB&Q: 1871 1880 Chicago, Burlington and Kansas City Railway: Little River Valley and ...
The Mansfield, Coldwater and Lake Michigan Railroad (MCW&LM) [1] is a defunct railroad which operated in southern Michigan and Ohio during the 1870s. By the time it went into foreclosure in the late 1870s it owned two non-contiguous track segments, each of which was leased by a different company.
The Illinois Southern Railway, a precursor to the Cairo and Vincennes Railroad, was chartered in Illinois on 6 May 1867. It is shown as Illinois Southern RR (and Rwy) on the 1861 and 1870 railroad maps of Illinois.
The Central Pacific & The Southern Pacific Railroads: Centennial Edition. Howell-North Books, Berkeley, CA. Brands, H. W. (2003). The age of gold: the California Gold Rush and the new American dream. New York: Anchor (reprint ed.). ISBN 0-385-72088-2. Daniels, Rudolph (2000). Across the continent: North American railroad history. Indiana ...
The Northern Pacific Railway (NP) was a transcontinental railroad that operated across the northern tier of the western states, from Minnesota to the Pacific Northwest. It was approved by Congress in 1864 and given nearly 40 million acres (62,000 sq mi; 160,000 km2) of land grants, which it used to raise money in Europe for construction.