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A railway pioneer is someone who has made a significant contribution to the historical development of the railway (US: railroad). This definition includes locomotive engineers, railway construction engineers, operators of railway companies, major railway investors and politicians, of national and international importance for the development of rail transport.
Wilhelm von Pressel – designer of the Baghdad Railway; George Stephenson – "Father of British Steam Railways", inventor of the Rocket steam locomotive (the first "modern" locomotive), and pioneer of the 4 ft 8 ½ inch rail gauge; Richard Trevithick – credited with the 1804 invention of the steam locomotive
In addition, other transcontinentals were built in the South (Southern Pacific, Santa Fe) and in the North along the Canada–US border (Northern Pacific, Great Northern), accelerating the settlement of the West by offering inexpensive farms and ranches on credit, carrying pioneers and supplies westward, and cattle, wheat and minerals eastward ...
The people listed here were all pioneers in the development of various forms of rail transport. Subcategories This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total.
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 ...
The Railway Magazine ISSN 0033-8923; The Railway Observer ISSN 0952-7133; Railways Illustrated ISSN 1479-2230; Steam Days ISSN 0000-0000; Steam Railway, 1979– , ISSN 0143-72320; Railway World ISSN 0033-9032; Steam World ISSN 0959-0897; Thomas Cook Continental Timetable (now the European Rail Timetable), 1873– Today's Railways UK (formerly ...
This 400E locomotive from the early ’30s sold for a whopping $250,000 in 2016. But there’s good news: you can buy a similar one online for a fraction of the price.Its rarity, condition, and ...
Iranian railway history goes back to 1887 when an approximately 20-km long railway between Tehran and Ray was established. After this time many short railways were constructed but the main railway, Trans-Iranian Railway , was started in 1927 and operated in 1938 by connecting the Persian Gulf to the Caspian Sea.