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Congress passed the first of the Pacific Railroad Acts and the major Homestead Act in 1862. The Central Pacific Railroad then broke ground on January 8, 1863. Though the last spike would not be driven into the transcontinental railroad until 1869, the second transatlantic telegraph cable was completed the year the Civil War ended.
Few copies of the maps are known to survive today, but they have both been digitized (the Antietam map by the New York Public Library and the Gettysburg map by the Library of Congress). The American Battlefield Trust uses Elliott's map of Gettysburg to inform its conservation activities in the Gettysburg area.
First all maps would need to be imported from the Library of COngress and New York Public library, and libraries of other nations, with location and year information for more efficient searches. Identify and categorize existing historical railroad maps (Need mass import, Library of congress and other libraries already have year and location ...
On April 1, 1830, a double-tracked 3,800-foot (1,200 m)-long railroad was in full operation. By 1833, this railroad had been completed to Hamburg, South Carolina for a total length of 137 miles (220 km). At that time, it was the longest railroad in the world. This was the first railroad to use steam locomotives regularly.
Each volume detailed the history, ownership, equipment, and finances of railroads in the United States, including maps of the largest railroad systems at that point in time. Later editions would limit the scope to steam-powered railroads while expanding the coverage to include Canada and the principal railroads of Mexico, Cuba, and Central America.
The Virginia and Tennessee Railroad was an historic 5 ft (1,524 mm) gauge [1] railroad in the Southern United States, ... Library of Congress map of V&T route in 1856
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. [1]
The United States Railroad Administration (USRA) was the name of the nationalized railroad system of the United States between December 28, 1917, and March 1, 1920. [1] It was the largest American experiment with nationalization, and was undertaken against a background of war emergency following American entry into World War I .