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Wisconsin. East Troy Electric Railroad. Kenosha Streetcar. Kettle Moraine Scenic Railway (Closed in October 2001) Lumberjack Steam Train. Mid-Continent Railway Museum. National Railroad Museum, Ashwaubenon (includes a small rail loop) Osceola and St. Croix Valley Railway. Riverside and Great Northern Railway.
The Potomac Eagle Scenic Railroad (reporting mark PESX) is a heritage railroad based in Romney, West Virginia. The railroad operates excursion trains over a former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad line that runs between Green Spring and Petersburg. The West Virginia State Rail Authority (SRA) owns the line and freight service is provided by the ...
Ohio and Kanawha Railway, Toledo and Ohio Central Railway: Ohio Central Railway: NYC: 1876 1878 Columbus and Sunday Creek Valley Railroad, Ohio Central Railroad: Ohio and Indiana Railroad: PRR: 1850 1856 Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad: Ohio, Indiana and Missouri Railroad: 1889 American Midland Railway: Ohio, Indiana and Pacific ...
List of railway towns in the United States. A narrow-gauge railway running through the center of Burke, Idaho. This is a list of railway towns in the United States listed by state. The United States has a high concentration of railway towns, communities that developed and/or were built around a railway system.
The Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad in Portland, Maine. In New England, the first narrow-gauge common-carrier railroad was the Billerica and Bedford Railroad, which ran from North Billerica to Bedford in Middlesex County, Massachusetts from 1877 to 1878. There were extensive 2 ft (610 mm) gauge lines in the Maine forests early in the 20th century.
Great American Railroad Journeys is a BBC travel documentary series presented by Michael Portillo and broadcast on BBC Two. [1] Using an 1879 copy of Appleton's Guidebook to the railroads of the United States and Canada, Portillo travels across the United States and Canada primarily by train, though at times using other forms of transportation where necessary.
In 1888 the railroad was leased, and later purchased, by Collis P. Huntington's Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (merger with C&O occurred in 1889 [4]). Today, the former Richmond and Alleghany Railroad is a major route of CSX Transportation. It forms the Rivanna and James River subdivisions. The eastern terminus is Richmond's Main Street Station.
1975. The B&O Railroad Museum is a museum and historic railway station exhibiting historic railroad equipment in Baltimore, Maryland. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) company originally opened the museum on July 4, 1953, with the name of the Baltimore & Ohio Transportation Museum. It has been called one of the most significant collections ...