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Early forms of American railroad signaling and communication were virtually non-existent; the railroads initially managed their train operations using timetables. However, there was no means of timely communication between engineers and dispatchers, and occasionally two trains inadvertently would be sent on a collision course, or "cornfield meet."
Business History Review 1975 49(1): 37–59. in JSTOR; White, Richard. Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America (2011) excerpt and text search; Wolmar, Christian. The Great Railroad Revolution: The History of Trains in America (2012), survey to 2012; emphasis on 19th century; 448pp excerpt and text search
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 ...
By 1970, only 13 trains per day stopped at Union Station. Eight years later, Amtrak moved its diminished passenger operations from the station to a double-wide trailer that locals dubbed ...
Great American Railroad Journeys is a BBC travel documentary series presented by Michael Portillo and broadcast on BBC Two. [1] Using an 1879 copy of Appleton's Guidebook to the railroads of the United States and Canada, Portillo travels across the United States and Canada primarily by train, though at times using other forms of transportation where necessary.
Train at Espanola, New Mexico on the Rio Grande's extension to Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Rio Grande mainline was gradually re-gauged after it and the Colorado Midland Railway built a new standard gauge joint line to Grand Junction in 1890, but the southern portions remained steam-hauled and narrow gauge into the mid 20th century. [7]
The eastbound train left Akron’s Union Depot at 11:08 p.m. for Washington, arriving in Pittsburgh at 1:36 a.m. The westbound train for Chicago arrived in Akron at 1:50 a.m.
Extreme Trains is a television program on the History Channel that describes the daily operations of railroads in the United States, from coal trains to passenger trains and famous routes. It is hosted by Matt Bown, a train conductor for Pan Am Railways in Maine , whose interest is railways and the technology of them.