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The Valley Railway was constructed in 1880 to link Cleveland's growing steel industry and the rich coal fields of the Tuscarawas River Valley, extending south to Zoarville. Although the first railroad came to Cleveland in 1854, the majority of the rail lines ran east–west and did not connect the metropolitan and industrial centers of ...
The Valley Railway was a shortline railroad which operated between the city of Cleveland and small town of Zoarville in the state of Ohio in the United States. The railroad was founded in 1871, but the first segment of track did not open until 1880 and the line was not completed until 1884.
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 ...
Northwestern Terminal Railroad: Platt Valley Railway: 1993 1993 Denver Rock Island Railroad: Pueblo and Arkansas Valley Railroad: ATSF: 1875 1900 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway: Pueblo and Salt Lake Railway: ATSF: 1873 1875 Pueblo and Arkansas Valley Railroad: Pueblo and State Line Railroad: MP: 1887 1910 Missouri Pacific Railway
Rae, John B. "Commissioner Sparks and the Railroad Land Grants." Mississippi Valley Historical Review 25.2 (1938): 211–230. online; Richardson, Heather Cox. The greatest nation of the Earth: Republican economic policies during the Civil War (Harvard UP, 2009) pp. 170–208, detailed history of passage of the Pacific Railroad Acts. Riegel ...
"A Macro-scale Look at Railroad History." Railroad History (Fall/Winter 2012), Issue 207, pp 78–89. Riegel, Robert Edgar. The Story of the Western Railroads (1926) online; Saunders, Richard. Main lines: Rebirth of the North American railroads, 1970–2002 (Northern Illinois UP, 2003). Stover, John. History of the Illinois Central Railroad ...
The Norfolk and Western Railroad fought a legal battle for the next four years to regain control. On September 30, 1890, the SVRR was reorganized as the Shenandoah Valley "Railway", with stockholders approval to sell to N&W. On December 2, the Shenandoah Valley Railway acquired the rights to the franchise of the Washington and Western Railroad ...
The Valley Railroad makes an appearance in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull with 2-8-0 97 appearing in some scenes of the film. It again appears several times in the Hallmark 2021 production Next Stop, Christmas. Earlier movies including Amistad, Ragtime, and Malcolm X were also filmed in part at the Valley Railroad. [22]