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  2. 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 ...

  3. List of common carrier freight railroads in the United States

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    About 700 railroads operate common carrier freight service in the United States. There are about 160,141 mi (257,722 km) of railroad track in the United States, nearly all standard gauge. Reporting marks are listed in parentheses. [1] A&R Terminal Railroad (ART) Aberdeen and Rockfish Railroad (AR) Aberdeen, Carolina and Western Railway (ACWR)

  4. National Highway System (United States) - Wikipedia

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    A map of the Strategic Highway Network, one component of the NHS Map of average freight truck traffic on the NHS in 2015. According to the Federal Highway Administration, the 160,000-mile (260,000 km) National Highway System includes roads important to the United States' economy, defense, and mobility, from one or more of the following road networks (specific routes may be part of more than ...

  5. File:High speed railroad map of the United States.svg

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    High Speed Railroad Map of the United States 2013.svg; ... current: 01:42, 14 December 2024: 512 × 466 (56 KB) Danski454: Correct conversion of 145 mph to km/h:

  6. List of United States Numbered Highways - Wikipedia

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    Follows the East Coast of the United States, longest north-south US Highway US 2: 2,112: 3,399 I-5/SR 529 in Everett, WA: I-75 in St. Ignace, MI: 1926: current Western segment US 2: 460: 740 US 11 in Rouses Point, NY: I-95 in Houlton, ME: 1926: current Eastern segment US 3: 273: 439 Route 2A/Route 3 in Cambridge

  7. National rail network - Wikipedia

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    1890 map of the national rail network. In United States railroading, the term national rail network, sometimes termed "U.S. rail network", [1] refers to the entire network of interconnected standard gauge rail lines in North America.

  8. Interstate Highway System - Wikipedia

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    The Pershing Map FDR's hand-drawn map from 1938. The United States government's efforts to construct a national network of highways began on an ad hoc basis with the passage of the Federal Aid Road Act of 1916, which provided $75 million over a five-year period for matching funds to the states for the construction and improvement of highways. [8]

  9. United States Numbered Highway System - Wikipedia

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    Within the route log, "U.S. Route" is used in the table of contents, while "United States Highway" appears as the heading for each route. All reports of the Special Committee on Route Numbering since 1989 use "U.S. Route", and federal laws relating to highways use "United States Route" or "U.S. Route" more often than the "Highway" variants.