Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Washington and Georgetown's monopoly didn't last long. On July 1, 1864, a second streetcar company, the Metropolitan Railroad, was incorporated. It opened lines from the Capitol to the War Department along H Street NW. In 1872, the railroad built a line on 9th Street NW and purchased the Union Railroad (chartered on January 19, 1872). [1]
This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "List of licensed and localized editions of Monopoly ...
The Eastern Washington Gateway Railroad was established on June 1, 2007, after the purchase of the CW branch of the Palouse River and Coulee City Railroad (PCC) by the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). [2] [3] The branch, which saw low traffic and high deferred maintenance costs, was slated to be abandoned by the railroad ...
The General Motors streetcar conspiracy refers to the convictions of General Motors (GM) and related companies that were involved in the monopolizing of the sale of buses and supplies to National City Lines (NCL) and subsidiaries, as well as to the allegations that the defendants conspired to own or control transit systems, in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
However, to travel southwest to Washington, D.C., it had to use the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) and its Washington Branch. Since the PRR and B&O were rivals, the Maryland General Assembly refused to grant the PRR a charter to break the B&O's monopoly on Baltimore-Washington travel. The PRR saw the existing Baltimore and Potomac charter's ...
Supreme Court restricted monopoly regulation. Industrial Commission (1898) Investigates railroad pricing, among other things; Northern Securities Co. v. United States, 193 U.S. 197 (1904) The Supreme Court orders a regional railway monopoly, formed through a merger of 3 corporations, to be dissolved. Swift & Co. v. United States, 196 U.S. 375 ...
The Washington Railway and Electric Company (WREC) was the larger of the two major streetcar companies in Washington, D.C., and its Maryland suburbs in the early decades of the 20th century. Founded as the Washington and Great Falls Electric Railway Company in 1892, the company was appointed by act of Congress in 1900 to acquire several other ...
Eastern-Washington Railroad: UP: 1904 Spokane – Columbia River Railroad and Navigation Company: Eastern Washington Railway: NP: 1885 1886 Spokane and Palouse Railway: Eastern Washington Gateway Railroad: EWG 2007 2018 Washington Eastern Railroad: Eastside Railway: UP: 1896 1914 Olympia Terminal Railway: Everett and Cherry Valley Traction ...