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Great Railroad Strike of 1877. The Great Railroad Strike of 1877, sometimes referred to as the Great Upheaval, began on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, after the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) cut wages for the third time in a year. The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was the first strike that spread across multiple states in the U.S.
4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad (reporting mark RFP) was a railroad connecting Richmond, Virginia, to Washington, D.C. The track is now the RF&P Subdivision of the CSX Transportation system; the original corporation is no longer a railroad company. The RF&P was a bridge line, with ...
Blockade of engines at Martinsburg, West Virginia, during strike in 1877 1876 B&O map. Ohio River Railroad from 1901; Pittsburgh Junction Railroad from 1902; Pittsburgh and Western Railroad from 1902. This was originally a narrow gauge system which was standard gauged from 1883 to 1911. It formed the main B&O line west from Pittsburgh.
The keel for Otter was laid down in 1877 at the Schichau-Werke shipyard in Elbing, under construction number 110. She was launched on 7 June 1877, [4] and was named for the eponymous mammal. After fitting out, she was commissioned on 11 March 1878 to begin sea trials. The ship's first commander was Leutnant zur See (Lieutenant at Sea) Max Piraly.
CSX Transportation. CSX Transportation (reporting mark CSXT), known colloquially as simply CSX, is a Class I freight railroad company operating in the Eastern United States and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Operating about 21,000 route miles (34,000 km) of track, [1] it is the leading subsidiary of CSX Corporation, a Fortune 500 ...
CSX Transportation owns and operates a vast network of rail lines in the United States east of the Mississippi River.In addition to the major systems which merged to form CSX – the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, Louisville and Nashville Railroad, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and Seaboard Air Line Railroad – it also owns major lines in the Northeastern United ...
4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (reporting marks C&O, CO) was a Class I railroad formed in 1869 in Virginia from several smaller Virginia railroads begun in the 19th century. Led by industrialist Collis P. Huntington, it reached from Virginia's capital city of Richmond to the Ohio River by 1873 ...
The Capital Subdivision is a railroad line owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the U.S. state of Maryland and the District of Columbia. The line runs from near Baltimore, Maryland, southwest to Washington, D.C., along the former Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road (B&O) Washington Branch. [1] The subdivision's Alexandria Extension provides a ...