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Congress added railroad worker safety laws throughout the 20th century. [114]: 16–25 Significant among this legislation is the Federal Railroad Safety Act of 1970, which gave the FRA broad responsibilities over all aspects of rail safety, and expanded the agency's authority to cover all railroads, both interstate and intrastate. [119]
Train Name Railroad Train Endpoints in a typical [year] Operated Taconic: New Haven: New York, New York–Pittsfield, Massachusetts [1955] 1954–1958 Tamiami: Pennsylvania, Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, Florida East Coast Railway: New York, New York–Miami, Florida–Tampa, Florida [1935] 1930–1940
Train Name Railroad Train Endpoints in a typical [year] Operated Cabana: New Haven: New York, New York - Boston, Massachusetts [1951] 1932–1940; 1950–1954; 1962 California and Mexico Express: Santa Fe: Kansas City, Missouri - Los Angeles, California [1904] 1886-1907 California Express: Texas and Pacific
The Overland Limited leaving 16th Street station (Oakland), in 1906. The Overland Route was a train route operated jointly by the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad/Southern Pacific Railroad, between the eastern termini of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Omaha, Nebraska, [1] and the San Francisco Bay Area, over the grade of the first transcontinental railroad (aka the "Pacific ...
A New York, Ontario and Western Railway passenger train at Weehawken Terminal in Weehawken, New Jersey Engine 201 crossing Cadosia Trestle in Hancock, New York. In 1866, the New York and Oswego Midland Railroad was chartered under the direction of DeWitt C. Littlejohn, who envisioned a railroad serving a direct connection from the docks opposite New York City to Lake Ontario at Oswego.
Picking up train orders on the ATSF in Isleta, New Mexico in 1943. Train order operation is a system for safely moving trains using train orders, as opposed to fixed signals or cab signalling. In train order operation, a "train order" is an order issued by or through a proper railway official to govern the movement of trains". [1]
The Dixie Flyer was a premier named American passenger train that operated from 1892 to 1965 via the "Dixie Route" from Chicago and St. Louis via Evansville, Nashville, and Atlanta to Florida. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] However, the train continued until 1969 as an Atlanta to Florida operation, run solely by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and its ...
Buffalo Train: Lehigh Valley Railroad, Grand Trunk Western Railroad: New York City–Chicago [1907] 1902–1914 Buffalonian: West Shore Railroad: New York City–Buffalo, New York (with sleeping cars to Chicago, St. Louis, and Boston) [1915] 1910–1925 Buffalonian: New York Central: New York City–Buffalo, New York [1924] 1915–1932 Buffalonian