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Historical atlas of the North American railroad (2010); 400 historical maps; Hubbard, Freeman H. (1981). Encyclopedia of North American railroading: 150 years of railroading in the United States and Canada. (New York: McGraw-Hill). ISBN 9780070308282. Middleton, William D. ed. Encyclopedia of North American Railroads. (Indiana UP, 2007) online
Railroads and the American People (2012) excerpt and text search; Hayes, Derek. Historical atlas of the North American railroad (2010); 400 historical maps; Hubbard, Freeman H. (1981). Encyclopedia of North American railroading: 150 years of railroading in the United States and Canada. (New York: McGraw-Hill). ISBN 9780070308282. Jenks, Leland ...
On April 1, 1830, a double-tracked 3,800-foot (1,200 m)-long railroad was in full operation. By 1833, this railroad had been completed to Hamburg, South Carolina for a total length of 137 miles (220 km). At that time, it was the longest railroad in the world. This was the first railroad to use steam locomotives regularly.
Railroads played a large role in the development of the United States from the Industrial Revolution in the North-east 1810–1850 to the settlement of the West 1850–1890. The American railroad mania began with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1828 and flourished until the Panic of 1873 bankrupted many companies and temporarily ended growth.
1838 – The world's first railroad junction is formed in Branchville, South Carolina. The railroad company extended its existing rail that ran between Charleston and the Savannah River to the north toward Orangeburg and Columbia. Both rail lines closely paralleled old Native American trails. 1838 – Edmondson railway ticket introduced.
American Economic History (3rd ed. 1990; see ch. 14 on "Railroads and Economic Development" pp. 266–284 for review of the historiography. Lamar, Howard R. ed., The Reader's Encyclopedia of the American West (Yale UP, 1977) online. Overton, Richard C. Burlington Route, a History of the Burlington Lines (Knopf, 1965). online; Petrowski, William R.
The first American locomotive at Castle Point in Hoboken, New Jersey, c. 1826 The Canton Viaduct, built in 1834, is still in use today on the Northeast Corridor.. Between 1762 and 1764 a gravity railroad (mechanized tramway) (Montresor's Tramway) was built by British Army engineers up the steep riverside terrain near the Niagara River waterfall's escarpment at the Niagara Portage in Lewiston ...
July 15 – Sidney Breese, U.S. senator from Illinois known as the "father of the Illinois Central Railroad" (d. 1878). July 29 – George Bradshaw, English cartographer, printer and publisher and the originator of the railway timetable (d. 1853).