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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: Orange, Alexandria and Manassas Railroad: SOU: 1872 1872 Virginia and North Carolina Railroad: Penn Central Transportation Company: PC 1968 1976 Consolidated Rail Corporation: Pennsylvania Railroad: PRR PRR 1918 1968 Penn Central Transportation Company: Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad: PRR: 1902 1976
2018 – The Washington Capitals win their first Stanley Cup in franchise history. 2019 – The Washington Nationals win the World Series. 2020 – The coronavirus disease 2019 causes the District to lock down for the first time in history. 2021 January 6: Storming of the United States Capitol. January 20: Inauguration of U.S. President Joe Biden
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.
"A Macro-scale Look at Railroad History." Railroad History (Fall/Winter 2012), Issue 207, pp 78–89. Riegel, Robert Edgar. The Story of the Western Railroads (1926) online; Saunders, Richard. Main lines: Rebirth of the North American railroads, 1970–2002 (Northern Illinois UP, 2003). Stover, John. History of the Illinois Central Railroad ...
Washington Union Station, known locally as Union Station, is a major train station, transportation hub, and leisure destination in Washington, D.C. Designed by Daniel Burnham and opened in 1907, it is Amtrak's headquarters, the railroad's second-busiest station, and North America's 10th-busiest railroad station.
1838 – The world's first railroad junction is formed in Branchville, South Carolina. The railroad company extended its existing rail that ran between Charleston and the Savannah River to the north toward Orangeburg and Columbia. Both rail lines closely paralleled old Native American trails. 1838 – Edmondson railway ticket introduced.
The outdoor sculpture of Washington, DC: A comprehensive historical guide (George Braziller, 1974) Green, Constance McL. Washington: A History of the Capital (Princeton U.P. 2 vol 1976) comprehensive scholarly history; online; Green, Constance McL. Secret City: History of Race Relations in the Nation's Capital (1969) online; Harrison, Robert.
In 1870, the B&O railroad had its exclusive access to the Long Bridge handed to the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) and began searching for a way to regain north-south access across the Potomac. [2] The opportunity came from the Washington City and Point Lookout Railroad (WCPL) which was chartered in 1872 and authorized to run trains between ...