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2. Timeline of United States railway history - Wikipedia

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   Steam locomotives of the Chicago and North Western Railway in the roundhouse at the Chicago, Illinois rail yards, 1942. The Timeline of U.S. Railway History depends upon the definition of a railway, as follows: A means of conveyance of passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, also known as tracks.

3. History of rail transportation in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The animal powered Leiper Railroad followed in 1810 after the preceding successful experiment—designed and built by merchant Thomas Leiper, the railway connected Crum Creek to Ridley Creek, in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.

4. Timeline of the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway

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   December 28: Due to World War I the United States Railroad Administration takes control of NYSW until February 29, 1920 [60] [29] [68] 1920 The two-year Depression of 1920-1921; In the next decade the Erie spends money on the NYSW, including scrapping old locomotives [29] In the next decade the decapods arrive [29] 1923

5. 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 ...

6. Timeline of railway history - Wikipedia

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   1970, 21 June – Penn Central, the dominant railroad in the northeastern United States, became bankrupt (the largest US corporate bankruptcy up to that time). Created only two years earlier in 1968 from a merger of several other railroads, it marked the end of long-haul private-sector US passenger train services, and forced the creation of the ...

7. Timeline of Class I railroads (1910–1929) - Wikipedia

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   January 1: The United States Railroad Administration takes over operation of most of the U.S. rail network, [55] including almost all Class I railroads. [101] January 1: The Pennsylvania Railroad leases its subsidiaries that had been leased to the Pennsylvania Company, [55] as well as the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad. [102]

8. Category : History of rail transportation in the United States

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   History of rail transportation in California; John S. Casement; Central Pacific Railroad; List of Union Pacific Railroad civil engineers 1863 to 1869; History of railroads in Colorado; Commercial Historic District (Potlatch, Idaho) Confederate railroads in the American Civil War; Credit Foncier of America; Crédit Mobilier scandal

9. 1880 in rail transport - Wikipedia

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   Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad. Retrieved July 18, 2005. Railroad History Timeline 1880. Retrieved March 23, 2005. Reitwiesner, William Addams, The Ancestors of Julia Stimson Thorne. Retrieved October 11, 2005. Santa Fe Railroad (1945), Along Your Way, Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.