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Rails Across America is a railroad simulation game released in late 2001 by developer Flying Lab Software and publisher Strategy First. It received generally positive reviews. [ 1 ] Though no official expansions have been released, a rudimentary map-editing tool was made available to the player community.
Defunct video game companies of the United States (13 C, 391 P) Video game companies based in California (5 C, 98 P) Video game companies based in Florida (1 P)
The objective of the game is to build and manage a railroad company by laying tracks, building stations, and buying and scheduling trains. The player acts as a railway entrepreneur and may start companies in any of four geographic locales: the Western United States , Northeast United States , Great Britain , or Continental Europe ; the starting ...
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 ...
Railroad History Bibliography by Richard Jensen, Montana State University; Primary sources on 19th century and early 20th century American railways – DigitalBookIndex.com; Booknotes interview with Sarah Gordon on Passage to Union: How the Railroads Transformed American Life, 1829–1929, March 9, 1997. Railroad History, An Overview Of The Past
Ward, James A. "Power and Accountability on the Pennsylvania Railroad, 1846–1878." Business History Review 1975 49(1): 37–59. in JSTOR; White, Richard. Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America (2011) excerpt and text search; Wolmar, Christian. The Great Railroad Revolution: The History of Trains in America (2012 ...
In the first phase of the game, before the American Civil War, players begin on the east coast of the United States and acquire companies to develop railroads and make key connections. [6] The second phase is after the Civil War, when play shifts westward with players attempting to make a coast-to-coast connection. [6]
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.