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The Official Guide also included some high priority freight schedules, system maps, listing of company officers, an index of all railroad stations, industry news briefs and personnel changes, rosters of key railroad officials, and new passenger train announcements, along with steamship schedules.
The Puritan. The Fall River Line was a combination steamboat and railroad connection between New York City and Boston that operated between 1847 and 1937. It consisted of a railroad journey between Boston and Fall River, Massachusetts, where passengers would then board steamboats for the journey through Narragansett Bay and Long Island Sound to the line's own Hudson River dock in Manhattan.
Nerissa was the final ship built for the Bowring Brothers' "Red Cross Line" service between New York City, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and St. John's, Newfoundland.Due to the arduous winter conditions to be expected on her routes, Nerissa was designed with a strengthened hull to cope with ice floes and an icebreaker style sloping stern.
SS Bremen depicted on a German postage stamp. Transatlantic passenger crossings became faster, safer, and more reliable with the advent of steamships in the 19th century. The wooden-hulled, paddle-wheel SS Great Western built in 1838 is recognized as the first purpose-built transatlantic steamship, on a scheduled run back and forth from Bristol to New York City.
former Newfoundland Northern and Western Railway No. 4 – scrapped 61 Baldwin Locomotive Works 2-6-0 6/1893 13519 former Newfoundland Northern and Western Railway No. 6 – scrapped 63 Baldwin Locomotive Works 2-6-0 3/1894 13976 former Newfoundland Northern and Western Railway No. 11 – scrapped 100 Baldwin Locomotive Works 4-6-0: 10/1898 16244
The Stonington Steamship Company merged in 1875 with the Providence and New York Steamship Company, primarily a freight carrier between the two named ports, to form the Providence and Stonington Steamship Company. The Rhode Island was assigned to the New York-Providence route, joined in 1877 by a new steamer, the Massachusetts.
The best passage from New York to Liverpool in those days was the 15 days 16 hours achieved at the end of 1823 by the ship New York (though often incorrectly reported as Canada). [4] The westward crossing had a remarkable record of 15 days 23 hours set by the Black Ball's Columbia in 1830, [ 5 ] during an unusually prolonged spell of easterly ...
Route: Liverpool-Queenstown-New York (1870–1886) Vancouver-Hong Kong-Tokyo (1887–1891) Liverpool-Queenstown-New York (1891) Builder: J & G Thomson, Govan: Yard number: 110 [1] Launched: 3 March 1870 [1] Completed: May 1870 [1] Fate: Caught fire and sank, 18 December 1891 in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland. General characteristics; Type ...