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The Connecticut Valley Railroad Association, the Empire State Railway Museum, and private investors created today's for-profit Valley Railroad, obtaining a charter from the Connecticut State Legislature. The State of Connecticut took ownership of the line from the Penn Central, and designated the Valley line as a linear State Park.
Valley Railroad (New York), 1869-1945, predecessor of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Valley Railroad (Pennsylvania) , Westline to Kushequa Valley Railroad (Virginia) , predecessor of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Valley Rail is a project to expand Altamont Corridor Express (ACE) and Amtrak California San Joaquins commuter rail services, divided into several segments which include two service extensions from Stockton to Sacramento and Merced, station improvements, and grade separation of the Stockton Diamond.
Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad: CVSR Napoleon, Defiance & Western Railroad: ND&W Ohio Central Railroad: OHCR Ohio Terminal Railway: OHIO Ohio Valley Railroad: OVR, OVRX Toledo Lake Erie & Western: TLEW Cincinnati East Terminal Railway: CET
The railroad briefly exhisted for only 5 years before it was sold to the California Pacific Railroad under foreclosure on June 9, 1869. [1] [2] The line of the Napa Valley Rail-Road is currently operated by the Napa Valley Wine Train, which runs excursion passenger services from Napa to St. Helena.
A narrow gauge railroad known as the Tanana Valley Railroad, was bought by the Alaska Railroad in 1930, when the transition of narrow gauge to standard gauge happened. Today, the Tanana Valley Railroad steam locomotive Engine No. 1 is still operated by the Friends of the Tanana Valley Railroad and housed in the Tanana Valley Railroad Museum ...
When a train has made a full brake application due to adverse event, or has lost its train air due to a defective valve (a "kicker"), or a broken air line or train separation. The train crew will normally declare that they are "in emergency" over the train radio, thus warning other trains and the dispatcher that there is a problem.
Congress added railroad worker safety laws throughout the 20th century. [118]: 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. [123]