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There is no question about the importance of railroads in American history. Churella finds that back in the 1950s business and economic historians, led by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. and Robert Fogel, made railroads the centerpiece of advanced historiography. [173]
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 ...
Ward, James A. "Power and Accountability on the Pennsylvania Railroad, 1846–1878." 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 ...
History of rail transportation in California; John S. Casement; Central Pacific Railroad; List of Union Pacific Railroad civil engineers 1863 to 1869; History of railroads in Colorado; Commercial Historic District (Potlatch, Idaho) Confederate railroads in the American Civil War; Credit Foncier of America; Crédit Mobilier scandal
Rail transportation in the United States by state or territory (59 C) American people in rail transportation (28 C, 119 P) United States railway-related lists (7 C, 33 P)
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.
The Transportation Revolution, 1815-1860 (1951) White, John H. Wet Britches and Muddy Boots: A History of Travel in Victorian America (Indiana UP, 2013). xxvi + 512 pp. Wolmar, Christian. The Great Railway Revolution: The Epic Story of the American Railroad (Atlantic Books Ltd, 2012), Popular history. Wright, Robert E.
America's first transcontinental railroad (known originally as the "Pacific Railroad" and later as the "Overland Route") was a 1,911-mile (3,075 km) continuous railroad line built between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Council Bluffs, Iowa, with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay. [1]