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The Routledge Historical Atlas of the American Railroads (2001) Stover, John. History of the Illinois Central Railroad (1975) Stover, John. Iron Road to the West: American Railroads in the 1850s (1978) Turner, George E. Victory rode the rails: the strategic place of the railroads in the Civil War (1953) Ward, James Arthur. J.
Railroad land grants in the United States; Railroad brotherhoods. List of American railway unions; Great Railroad Strike of 1877; Great Southwest railroad strike of 1886; Great Railroad Strike of 1922; 1992 United States railroad strike; Railroads in New England; Timeline of United States railway history; Track gauge in the United States
December 28: Due to World War I the United States Railroad Administration takes control of NYSW until February 29, 1920 [55] [29] [61] 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
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Timeline of railway history: ... (FGE) is incorporated in the United States. April events
1970, 21 June – Penn Central, the dominant railroad in the northeastern United States, became bankrupt (the largest US corporate bankruptcy up to that time). Created only two years earlier in 1968 from a merger of several other railroads, it marked the end of long-haul private-sector US passenger train services, and forced the creation of the ...
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
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 ...
March 20 – Kotoku Line, Takamatsu to Tokushima route officially completed with regular operation service to start in Shikoku Island, Japan. [5]March 23 – The North Manchuria Railway, the former Chinese Eastern Railway within the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, is sold by the Soviet Union to the Manchukuo Government; [6] it is then merged into the Manchukuo National Railway and ...