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...cisco in the Summer of 1859''] (1860). Book advocating a Transcontinental Railroad

...The 1854 Gadsden Purchase and the Building of the Second Transcontinental Railroad Across Arizona and New Mexico Twenty-Five Years Later'' (2004) 283 pp. popu ...lture'' 2001 35(2): 161-169. Issn: 0022-3840 Fulltext: [[Ebsco]], stresses railroad speculation and corruption themes

...7802.jpg|thumb|right|350px|{{Ann Arbor No 7802.jpg/credit}}<br />Ann Arbor Railroad No. 7802 in May 2012, the last unit to bear the road's classic orange liver ...lroad''' (AAR reporting mark '''AA''') is a regional (Class III) shortline railroad operating mostly in Michigan. It is the remnant of a 260 mile line that inc

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...Columbia in the east, where it connected to the Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad, to Duncan's Island in the west, where it met the Juniata Division and the

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...t}}<br />Santa Fe #2, an EMD E1 locomotive is featured on the cover of the railroad's 1946 promotional publication [http://www.titchenal.com/atsf/ayw1946/ "Alo

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...''Super C'' consists. #95 (seen here in July, 2003 at the Western America Railroad Museum in Barstow, California) began life in December, 1967 as Santa Fe #10 ...he home signal at the crossing with the [[Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad]]) is dropping from a high green to red.</ref>

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...uke, Donald |authorlink=Donald Norman Duke |year=1997|title=Santa Fe: The Railroad Gateway to the American West, Volume Two|publisher=[[Golden West Books]] |l ...year=1997|title=CF7 Locomotives: From Cleburne to Everywhere|publisher=The Railroad Press, Hanover, PA|isbn=0-9657709-0-7}}

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...als without the inclines. Even that was outstripped by the [[Pennsylvania Railroad]], which roared past it and consigned the system to history. [[Image:Portage Railroad 1839.jpg|thumb|right|300px|{{Portage Railroad 1839.jpg/credit}}<br />Head of Plane No. 6 in Cresson, [[Pennsylvania (U.S.

* {{cite book|author=Duke, Donald|year=1997|title=Santa Fe...The Railroad Gateway to the American West, Volume 2|publisher=Golden West Books, San Mar ...992|title=The Harvey House Cookbook: Memories of Dining along the Santa Fe Railroad|publisher=Longstreet Press, Atlanta, GA|id=ISBN 1-56352-357-4}}

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* [http://www.csrmf.org/events-exhibits/railroad-car-favorites/fruit-growers-express-company-refrigerator-car-no-35832 Fruit ...a wooden ice-type "reefer" on display at the [http://www.irm.org/ Illinois Railroad Museum].

...us|first=|title=&nbsp;'Empire Builder' Hill's Grandson Builds a Jounceless Railroad Car|journal=LIFE Magazine|volume=8|issue=21|pages=41-42|date=May 20, 1940}} * {{cite book|author=Duke, Donald|year=1995|title=Santa Fe: The Railroad Gateway to the American West, Volume One|publisher=Golden West Books, San M

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...After the war, Cooke sought to turn his sales talents to the marketing of railroad bonds, in particular those of the Northern Pacific. <!--Lubetkin--> ...ern Pacific (a railroad that [[Cornelius Vanderbilt]] derisively called a "railroad built from nowhere to nowhere") would not be making good on its bonds, he k

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'''Ann Arbor Railroad v. United States''' was a 1930 U.S. Supreme Court case which defined the Ho

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...vania. However, the system rarely showed a profit. As the [[Pennsylvania Railroad]] grew in size, it began to pass the Main Line as a transportation system. ...btnew.pdf Historic Structure Report: Staple Bend Tunnel, Allegheny Portage Railroad, National Historic Site]</ref> At the time, this idea was not taken seriou

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...''[[20th Century Limited]]'' and the [[Pennsylvania Railroad|Pennsylvania Railroad's]] ''[[Broadway Limited]]''. The complete trip between the two terminals t

...ns of the [[Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway]] and a workhorse of the railroad. It carried train Nos. 3 & 4 and ran between Chicago, Illinois and Los Ange .../credit}}<br />An aerial view of Disneyland in 1956, with the [[Disneyland Railroad]] route (which, at the time, encircled the entire park) visible.

...eer ~ by the custom of the day and his trade ~ left the family name to the railroad station here.

...uthor=Hanft, Robert M.|year=1984|title=San Diego & Arizona: The Impossible Railroad|publisher=Trans-Anglo Books, Glendale, CA|id=ISBN 0-87046-071-4}} * {{cite book|author=O'Connell, J.|year=1954|title=Railroad Album: The Story of American Railroads in Words and Pictures|publisher=Popu

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...://www.questia.com/library/book/the-interstate-commerce-commission-and-the-railroad-industry-a-history-of-regulatory-policy-by-richard-d-stone.jsp online editi

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...of the December 14, 1906 edition of the ''San Diego Union'' proclaims, "''RAILROAD FROM SAN DIEGO TO YUMA IS NOW ASSURED.''" ...Topeka and Santa Fe Railway]]'s subsidiary line the [[California Southern Railroad]].</ref> and to the right is real estate developer Alonzo Horton.

...ap of Reno, April 1868 ~'''<br>J.R. Scupham & J.M. Graham, Central Pacific Railroad

...ki>sic<nowiki>]</nowiki> eye,<nowiki>'</nowiki> with the Southern Pacific [Railroad], from 1888 to 1890, publishing numerous pamphlets that included sections o ...Fe Railway]] depot in San Juan Capistrano was considered to be one of the railroad's finest when it was completed on October 8, 1894.]]

...rom Panama City in the Panama Bay. The islands were owned by the [[Panama Railroad Company]] and the [[Pacific Mail Company]] which built a coaling station, l

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...overnorship of Vermont. He also became president of the [[Central Vermont Railroad]] and then later president of the [[Northern Pacific Railway]]. He was eve

...ghts, and obtain preapproval from Japan if other nationals wish to build a railroad, make loans secured by taxes from the area, or China engages political, fin

...rio]].}} A '''railway station''' is a facility found on [[railway]]s (or [[railroad]]s in some parts of the [[United States of America|U.S.]]), which serves as

...of a full-service, sit-down restaurant. It is distinct from other types of railroad food service cars that do not duplicate the full-service restaurant experie ...vertisement describes the dining experience aboard the [[Chicago and Alton Railroad]].]]

...d of observation cars. Occasionally, "special" trains (not included in the railroad's regular revenue service lineup) were chartered to make high-profile runs ...Francisco, California|San Francisco, California]] as a replacement for the railroad's ''Tourist Flyer'' from October 1, 1915 through January 14, 1940.

...built connecting Groesbeek to Nijmegen and Kleve&mdash;in 1991 use of the railroad was terminated. Notwithstanding the better connections, Groesbeek remained

...). Secondarily, historians began focusing on individual companies, and so railroad history is often considered a sub-field of [[business history]] as well. H * Walter Licht, ''Working for the Railroad: The Organization of Work in the Nineteenth Century'' Princeton University

...from an 1886 Supreme Court Case, ''Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad''. It asserts that certain rights of natural persons, such as the right to ...he judge in the case and the court reporter as evidence of a conspiracy by railroad operators to create a variant interpretation of the decision in the case, a

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...tral Pacific Railroad, shakes hands with Grenville M. Dodge, Union Pacific Railroad (center right).]] ...road''' was the California-to-Utah portion of the First [[Transcontinental Railroad]] in North America. It connected to the new [[Union Pacific]] and when it o

{{Image|ParkScene08.jpg|right|250px|A photo of Cedar Point, including the Railroad, Mantis, Millennium Force and Top Thrill Dragster}}

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* {{cite book|author=Duke, Donald|year=1997|title=Santa Fe: The Railroad Gateway to the American West, Volume Two|publisher=Golden West Books, San M

...ment for Pullman dining car service on the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad. ...ey.jpg/credit}}<br />An interior view of a [[Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad]] dining car kitchen shows a man in a chef uniform stirring a double boiler

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* [http://www.csrmf.org/events-exhibits/railroad-car-favorites/atasf-dining-car-no-1474-cochiti Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe * [https://www.psrm.org/trains/passenger/up-4054/ Union Pacific Railroad #4054] &mdash; photo and short history of a 36-seat heavyweight dining car

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* Deverell, William. ''Railroad Crossing: Californians and the Railroad, 1850-1910,'' (1994) [http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft9489p27w/?&quer ...7 pages [http://books.google.com/books?id=qkkEAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA160&dq=intitle:railroad+intitle:history&num=30&as_brr=1 online at Google]

...ana State Seminary and Military Academy, and president of the Fifth Street Railroad. He retired in 1883 and died on February 14, 1891, in New York City.

...Mike and Joe Welsh|authorlink=|year=2002|title=Streamliners: History of a Railroad Icon|publisher=MBI Publishing Co.|location=[[Saint Paul, MN]]|isbn=0-7603-1

Destroying a bridge or section of railroad could be part of a guerrilla raid, but covert placement of an improvised ex

...iety at MIT in the 1960s, in which creative overhaul of the communal model railroad display was done by students called track hackers. (Hacksaws were often us

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...es; each phase involves the construction and operation of a separate metro railroad connecting different parts of suburban and downtown Mumbai which are not ad ...velopment Authority]] (MMRDA). It involves the construction of an elevated railroad connecting [[Versova]], a suburb in northwestern Mumbai to [[Ghatkopar]] in

...Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway is a short line, standard gauge American railroad (AAR reporting mark SDAE) founded in 1933 by the the Southern Pacific Trans

*{{cite book|author=Duke, Donald|year=1997|title=Santa Fe...The Railroad Gateway to the American West, Volume 1|publisher=Golden West Books, San Mar

...a southern transcontinental route that was used for the [[Southern Pacific Railroad]]. The chief city is [[Tucson]], Arizona. ...arolina (U.S. state)|South Carolina]], championed a southern cross-country railroad in 1846 to improve his hometown's [[economy]] and to export [[slavery]] wes

...om/books?id=yrEsAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA47 |date=May 1, 1881 |pages=p. 47 |publisher=Railroad Commission of Georgia}}

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...B-17 Flying Fortresses and British Lancasters hammered away at the French railroad system, complemented by Resistance fighters sabotaged some 350 locomotives ...ries, and other choke points. The "transportation policy" of targeting the railroad system came in for intense debate among Allied strategists. It was argued t

...n 1984 the federal government took over transportation regulation, but the Railroad Commission kept its name. With an annual budget of $79 million it now focus ...sh and essentially vicious."<ref> See [http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/exhibits/railroad/early/page2.html for quote]</ref> Clark lost the 1892 election to Hogg but

...Pierce to send [[James Gadsden]] to [[Mexico]] to buy land for a southern railroad. He purchased the area now comprising southern [[Arizona (U.S. state)|Arizo Douglas's proposal, to organize western territories through which a railroad might run, caused extreme trouble. Douglas provided in his bills that the r

*{{cite book|author=Duke, Donald|year=1997|title=Santa Fe: The Railroad Gateway to the American West, Volume Two|publisher=Golden West Books, San M

*Nyala in South Darfur Province, and on the insecure railroad, in the central part and considered the regional capital For the first time since 1991, trains ran again on the railroad from Babanusa in central Sudan, to Awei in South Sudan. While the main bran

...ay to the port of [[Haiphong]]; Hanoi and Haiphong also are connected by [[railroad]], which continues into China.

The [[Champlain and Saint Lawrence Railroad]] opened in 1836 was the first Canadian railway. ...antee Act which provided government guarantees of railroad bonds for every railroad in excess of 75 miles in length. This act prompted a rapid expansion railw

* {{cite book|author=White, John H., Jr.|year=1978|title=The American Railroad Passenger Car|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |location=Baltimore,

...n [[National Highway 1 (Vietnam)|National Highway 1 (1A)]], the Trans-Viet railroad between Hanoi and Saigon, and is eastern starting point of [[National Highw

...n Francisco. In its later years, the train steadily lost passengers to the railroad's flashier, more-modern name trains such as the ''[[Super Chief]]'' and its

*{{cite book|author=Duke, Donald|year=1997|title=Santa Fe: The Railroad Gateway to the American West, Volume Two|publisher=Golden West Books, San M

*Bain, David Haward. ''Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad'' (New York: Viking Penguin, 1999).

The most northerly spur of the North-American [[railroad]] network ends in [[Hay River]], Northwest Territories. An [[intermodal te There are currently no railroad lines in Nunavut. A mining consortium has plans to build a 149 kilometre l

...rgest manufacturing plants include Hipolit Cegielski Poznań S.A. (engines, railroad cars) and [[Volkswagen]]'s automobile factory. Kompania Piwowarska, one of

* {{cite web | title=Pacific Railroad Society | url=http://www.pacificrailroadsociety.org | accessmonthday=Novemb

...ding the [[California Museum]], [[Crocker Art Museum]], [[California State Railroad Museum]], [[California State Capitol Museum]], [[California Hall of Fame]],

Durham was founded in the early 1850s, when a depot on the [[North Carolina Railroad]] was built there.<ref name=DurhamPostcardHistory/>

...ek Landing was selected in 1914 to be the headquarters of the new [[Alaska Railroad]] to run from [[Seward]] on the coast to the interior and funded by the Uni

...kland]]. The new owner plans to develop it for intermodal marine terminal, railroad and truck cargo activities. The site is environmentally contaminated due to

...nta Fe's #1460, affectionately known to rail fans as the "Beep," works the railroad's Argentine yard sometime prior to the 1995 BNSF merger.<ref>{{ATSF 1460.jp ...was removed from active service in 2008 and donated to the Western America Railroad Museum in Barstow, California the following year.

* White, Jr., John H. (1993). ''The American Railroad Freight Car''. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland. IS

...ay]], the [[Union Pacific Railroad]] and the [[Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad]] all failed. This was followed by the bankruptcy of many other companies; ...o serve the mines, also went out of business. The [[Denver and Rio Grande Railroad]] stopped its ambitious plan, then under way, to convert its system from na

...e in 1921, and, with one break in service, worked for the [[South Shanghai Railroad Line]], rising to vice-president.