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  2. List of heritage railroads in the United States - Wikipedia

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    San Bernardino Railroad Historical Society (For AT&SF 3751 excursion trips) San Diego Trolley Silver Line; San Francisco Municipal Railway. E Embarcadero streetcar line; F Market & Wharves streetcar line; San Francisco cable car system; San Jose Steam Railroad Museum (Proposed) San Luis Obispo Railroad Museum; Santa Cruz, Big Trees and Pacific ...

  3. List of heritage railways - Wikipedia

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    Georgetown Loop Railroad in Colorado, United States. Bernina railway line passing by Lago Bianco in Switzerland. La Trochita crossing Rio Chico in Argentina. A train of the Sagano Scenic Railway in Japan. This list of heritage railways includes heritage railways sorted by country, state, or region.

  4. Oldest railroads in North America - Wikipedia

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    1720: A railroad was reportedly used in the construction of the French fortress in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, Canada. [1]1764: Between 1762 and 1764, at the close of the French and Indian War, a gravity railroad (mechanized tramway) (Montresor's Tramway) was built by British military engineers up the steep riverside terrain near the Niagara River waterfall's escarpment at the Niagara Portage ...

  5. 20 Spectacular Trails That Used to Be Railroads - AOL

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    The Elroy-Sparta State Trail is the nation's oldest rail trail, beginning its second life roughly 50 years ago when Wisconsin purchased the abandoned Chicago & North Western Railway line to ...

  6. Spuyten Duyvil and Port Morris Railroad - Wikipedia

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    Spuyten Duyvil and Port Morris Railroad was a railroad built in what is today the West Bronx and South Bronx in New York City, United States.It ran from the junction between the West Side Line and the Hudson River Railroad near Spuyten Duyvil Creek, then along the Harlem River to the northwestern shore of the East River in what is today the Port Morris section of the Bronx.

  7. Railroads in Syracuse, New York - Wikipedia

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    The Auburn & Syracuse Railroad was opened on January 8, 1838, with horse-drawn trains. On June 4, 1839, the first locomotive owned by the line, the "Syracuse," traveled the wooden rails and pulled the first train by steam. By 1839, one of the trains achieved the 26 miles (42 km) run in 58 minutes.

  8. List of Norfolk Southern Railway lines - Wikipedia

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    Shenandoah District (also known as Shenandoah Valley Line or Shenandoah Line)- a former Norfolk and Western rail line; line is still active, but was separated into two rail lines: Roanoke District and Hagerstown District. [26] [27] [28] Kinney to Duke (or Duke to Kinney)- a former Norfolk and Western rail line. [21]

  9. Narrow-gauge railroads in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Huckleberry Railroad in Flint, Michigan began operating in 1976 using a part of an old Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad branch line. The Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad extended the branch line from Flint to Otter Lake in the late 1800s. It later came to be known as the Otter Lake Branch.