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  2. List of heritage railroads in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Placerville & Sacramento Valley Railroad, oldest railroad west of the Mississippi [1] Port of LA Waterfront Red Car, a rebuilt part of the original Pacific Electric Railway system (Closed in 2015) Poway–Midland Railroad; Sierra Railway - Railtown 1897 State Historic Park; Red Car Trolley; Redwood Valley Railway; Roaring Camp & Big Trees ...

  3. List of rail trails in Washington - Wikipedia

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    Map of rail trails in King County. Burke Gilman Trail - Seattle and suburbs [3] Cascade Trail - Skagit County [1] Cedar River Trail - King County [1] Cedar to Green River Trail - King County [1] Centennial Trail - Snohomish County; Chehalis Western Trail - Thurston County [1] Cross Kirkland Corridor - King County; East Lake Sammamish Trail ...

  4. Historical atlas of the North American railroad (2010); 400 historical maps; Hubbard, Freeman H. (1981). Encyclopedia of North American railroading: 150 years of railroading in the United States and Canada. (New York: McGraw-Hill). ISBN 9780070308282. Middleton, William D. ed. Encyclopedia of North American Railroads. (Indiana UP, 2007) online

  5. Oldest railroads in North America - Wikipedia

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    1720: A railroad was reportedly used in the construction of the French fortress in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, Canada. [1]1764: Between 1762 and 1764, at the close of the French and Indian War, a gravity railroad (mechanized tramway) (Montresor's Tramway) was built by British military engineers up the steep riverside terrain near the Niagara River waterfall's escarpment at the Niagara Portage ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. List of rail trails in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Railroad Grade Road, a five-mile long paved road/trail; a former section of the old East Tennessee and Western North Carolina line west of Roan Mountain; Shelby Farms Greenline, a 6.6 mile trail using the previous CSX Rail right-of-way in Shelby County; an additional 7 miles are planned.

  8. Milwaukee Road - Wikipedia

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    The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (CMStP&P), better known as the Milwaukee Road (reporting mark MILW), was a Class I railroad that operated in the Midwest and Northwest of the United States from 1847 until 1986.

  9. 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 ...

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