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With its extensive river system, the United States supported a large array of horse-drawn or mule-drawn barges on canals and paddle wheel steamboats on rivers that competed with railroads after 1815 until the 1870s. The canals and steamboats lost out because of the dramatic increases in efficiency and speed of the railroads, which could go ...
December 28: Due to World War I the United States Railroad Administration takes control of NYSW until February 29, 1920 [60] [29] [68] 1920 The two-year Depression of 1920-1921; In the next decade the Erie spends money on the NYSW, including scrapping old locomotives [29] In the next decade the decapods arrive [29] 1923
September 12 [O.S. August 30] 1870 – Russian emperor Alexander II inaugurates through services between Saint Petersburg and Helsinki (Finnish Railways).September 12 – Completion of the Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad from Portland, Maine to Sebago Lake causes abandonment of the parallel Cumberland and Oxford Canal.
Steam locomotives of the Chicago and North Western Railway in the roundhouse at the Chicago, Illinois rail yards, 1942. The Timeline of U.S. Railway History depends upon the definition of a railway, as follows: A means of conveyance of passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, also known as tracks.
The Illinois Central Railroad and Its Colonization Work (1934) online; Gates, Paul Wallace. “The Promotion of Agriculture by the Illinois Central Railroad, 1855-1870.” Agricultural History 5#2 (1931), pp. 57–76. online; Greever, William S. "A Comparison of Railroad Land-Grant Policies." Agricultural History 25.2 (1951): 83–90. online
The National Railway or National Air Line Railroad was a planned air-line railroad between New York City and Washington, D.C. in the United States around 1870. Part of it was eventually built from New York City to Philadelphia by the Delaware and Bound Brook Railroad and the Delaware River Branch of the North Pennsylvania Railroad, leased by the Philadelphia and Reading Railway, in 1879, and ...
This construct was known as strap-iron rail (or strap rail) and was widely used on pre-steam railways in the United States. [13] [14] Although relatively cheap and quick to build, they were unsuited to heavy loads and required 'excessive maintenance'. Train wheels rolling over the spikes loosened them, allowing the rail to break free and curve ...
The Long Depression, sparked in the United States by the Panic of 1873, had extensive implications for US industry, closing more than a hundred railroads in the first year and cutting construction of new rail lines from 7,500 miles (12,100 km) of track in 1872 to 1,600 miles (2,600 km) in 1875. [2]