Category: Railroads

The Union Pacific encountered such bandits as �Gentlemen� Bill Carlisle, the Jones Brothers, Charlie Manning, and George �Big Nose� Parrott. S. of A. of town and the Independent Americans of Friedensburg. The railroad crossed the Salinas River on a 30 foot high trestle. Eventually, such defiance gained legal standing, as Northern states passed “personal liberty” acts in the 1850s to exempt state and local officials from federal fugitive-slave laws.

At a price tag of $6 million, the tracks between Worcester and New York State were completed in three years and the two ends of Massachusetts were finally joined by rail. Many traveled up the Mississippi River and along the Red River, settling in the Red River Valley. In the late twentieth century corporate consolidation again emerged as a major theme in the state's railroad history. Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection (cataloged in 1899), Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.

The newly formed volunteer Southern Michigan Railroad Society, Inc., purchased the Clinton Branch and transformed it into an operating railroad museum in 1985. Forced New York Central and Pennsylvania to buy them instead, thereby extending their systems beyond their "natural" borders • Gained control of the Union Pacific (1 874 - 1 884), attempted merger with the Central Pacific • Attempted to put system together with Lackawanna (responsible for Binghamton - Buffalo extension), Wabash, Missouri Pacific, Texas & Pacific • Reached agreement with Southern Pacific for traffic to and from El Paso, Texas • Framework in place by 1 88 1 - Hoboken, NJ to El Paso, TX • Unable to keep system together 13 "Accomplishments" • Gould and Fisk attempted to comer the national gold supply • Attempted to purchase the Albany & Susquehanna RR - pitched battle at Long Tunnel • Triggered era of cutthroat rate wars and overbuilding 1 875 - 1 890 • Accused of swindling Thomas Edison out of the quadreplex - device for controlling telegraph transmissions • Owned Western Union Telegraph - possible source of "hate'" reporting by national press • Owned Associated Press, and New York World (sold to Joseph Pulitzer) • Involved in 1 876 settlement of national election • Attended one dinner for candidate Blaine in 1 884, cost him the election to Cleveland • Drove Robert Garrett of the B&O mad - "Don't let Jay Gould steal this state of Maryland before I get back".

A type of sleeping car containing three tiers of berths on one side of the coach appeared in 1836 on the Cumberland Railway's run between Philadelphia and Harrisburg. The Flushing Railroad was not successful financially, and about 1858 a first mortgage on its property and corporate franchises was foreclosed, which resulted in the title passing to a new corporation, called the New York and Flushing Railroad Company, organized in 1859. The rapidly growing ETV&G had absorbed the M&C by 1884, and was in turn acquired by the Richmond and Danville in 1887.

Thus the complete history of New England's railroads from 1834 to 1994 can be viewed in three separate regions in an animated fashion. Hood conducted raids against the Federal rail lines to Chattanooga. Lots were auctioned in 1919 and until the early 1930's, the railroad operated the only fire dept, police dept, and hospital in this area. There he boarded an up train of empty coal cars. During World War II, some 6,900 L&N employees were furloughed to the armed forces.

Thus terminated the property and franchises of the New York & blushing Railroad Company to operate a railroad between Winfield and Flushing, but the New York & Flushing Railroad Company remained intact as a corporation with a railroad from Winfield to Long Island City, with its property rights unimpaired, and with its terminal facilities, such as they were, lying south of the depot and yards of the Long Island Railroad. S. railway gauge jump the tracks when confronted with the fact that despite some commonality of equipment, well into the the U.

Also the railroads would increase the value of an area many fold by encouraging new settlement. Homespun boarding houses in the Loudoun Valley could not match the inn's allure. The road became a branch of the Burlington & Missouri Railroad, and, in connection with the Atchison & Nebraska and Missouri & Pacific Railways, forms a through line from Omaha to St. She also helped prepare food for the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, a heroic band of African-American soldiers who were known as the "Glory Brigade" after the fierce battle at Fort Wagner in 1863.

Military Rail Roads and appointed Daniel McCallum superintendent. One of these stories was of Tice Davis, a runaway slave in 1831. While the area railroads were out of commission, ore was stock piled at the mines. Churella provides a feel for the railroad, and he always considers the broader historical context. This railway broke new ground by using rails made of rolled wrought iron, produced at Bedlington Ironworks in Northumberland. [29] Such rails were stronger.

SUNDAY OCTOBER 9, 1955 AT OYSTER BAY ENGINES 39 AND 50 - No. 50 HAD BROUGHT IN A COMMUTER TRAIN ON FRIDAY. The Call of February 28, 1902 The handsome new passenger station of the Philadelphia and Reading Company is now ready for occupancy and may be handed over to the company tomorrow. Railroads spurred a long contest over technology—its public purposes and consequences and its private ownership—that is with us still.

But throughout it all, good old fashioned railroading is still practiced. In the 1880s, the line was purchased by the Baltimore & Philadelphia Railroad (B&P), a subsidiary of the Baltimore & Ohio (B&O). As of this date the total number of laborers and employees of the railroad is 3,000. Louis Railroad, and northwesterly from Normantown, on the main line, to Aurora. (HISTORY) The Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway was chartered in1887 and absorbed the Joliet, Aurora & Northern Railway, from Joliet to Aurora (21 miles), which had been commenced in 1886 and was completed in 1888, with extensions from Joliet to Spaulding, Ill., and from Joliet to McCool, Ind.