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The New York Central crossed just south of Albany, New York, where it continued west paralleling the Erie Canal to create the Water Level Route which competed with the Pennsylvania Railroad's more direct route that had to cross the Allegany Mountains. Even though the Poughkeepsie Bridge was closer to the city, it was less used.
The California Pacific Railroad Company (abbreviated Cal. P. R. R. or Cal-P) was incorporated in 1865 at San Francisco, California as the California Pacific Rail Road Company. It was renamed the California Pacific Railroad Extension Company in the spring of 1869, then renamed the California Pacific Railroad later that same year.
The Classic Western American Railroad Routes. New York: Chartwell Books/Worth Press. ISBN 978-0-7858-2573-9. Deverell, William (1994). Railroad crossing: Californians and the railroad 1850–1910. University of California Press, Los Angeles, CA. ISBN 0-520-08214-1. Norris, Frank (1901). The Octopus: A Story of California. Doubleday.
The Union Pacific Railroad (reporting marks UP, UPP, UPY) is a Class I freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over 32,200 miles (51,800 km) routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans.
Construction of the road was financed primarily by 30-year, 6% U.S. government bonds authorized by Sec. 5 of the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862.They were issued at the rate of $16,000 ($265,000 in 2017 dollars) per mile of tracked grade completed east of the designated base of the Sierra Nevada range near Roseville, CA where California state geologist Josiah Whitney had determined were the ...
“Here is a perfect example,” the investigator said, “of the gigantic ripoff that is occurring with these railroad crossing upgrades all over the U.S. They are grossly misusing our federal ...
The California Central Railroad (CCRR) was incorporated on April 21, 1857, to build a railroad from Folsom to Marysville, as an extension of the Sacramento Valley Railroad which terminated at Folsom. The first division of the CCRR was 18.5 miles long; it started at Folsom, crossed the American River , and ended at the new town of Lincoln ...
August 5 – United States – At Eloise, near Winter Haven, Florida, a vandal moved a temporary replacement CTC signaling cable on the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad so that a train ran over it. The northbound and southbound Silver Meteor trains (operating between New York and Miami) would normally have passed at Eloise. Due to the malfunction ...