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The result was the monthly publication of the Travelers Official Railway Guide of the United States, Mexico and Canada, beginning with a 200-page first edition in June 1868. Eventually the Official Guide would list all of the passenger train schedules of railroads in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Central America.
Portions are taken over by the Helena and Northwestern Railway (in 1949) and Arkansas and Ozarks Railway (in 1950), and the remainder is abandoned. [14] Both successor shortlines soon go out of business, though the Cotton Plant-Fargo Railway continues to operate a piece of the old H&NW into the 1970s.
1970–1979 Southern Express: Frisco, Southern: Kansas City, Missouri–Atlanta, Georgia [1902] 1902–1908 Southern Express: Illinois Central Railroad: Chicago, Illinois–New Orleans, Louisiana (different endpoints in different years) [1950] 1897–1918; 1922–1931; 1947–1966 Southern Express: Pennsylvania
Great Northern Railway Post Office Car No. 42 — photographs and short history of one of six streamlined baggage-mail cars built for the Great Northern by the American Car and Foundry Company in 1950. Great Northern Railway route map (1920) Archived September 11, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
Commuter rail service is provided near a few major cities, including New York City, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. Computerization and improved equipment steadily reduced employment, which peaked at 2.1 million in 1920, falling to 1.2 million in 1950 and 215,000 in 2010.
D&LN logo old DT&I Railroad map. In 1901, the merger of the Detroit and Lima Northern Railway and the Ohio Southern Railway formed the Detroit Southern Railroad. [1] This company was purchased at foreclosure on May 1, 1905, by Harry B. Hollins & Company of New York, which reincorporated it in the state of Michigan under the name of the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railway.
1795–96 & 1799–1804 or '05 — In 1795, Charles Bulfinch, the architect of Boston's famed State House first employed a temporary funicular railway with specially designed dumper cars to decapitate 'the Tremont's' Beacon Hill summit and begin the decades long land reclamation projects which created most of the real estate in Boston's lower elevations of today from broad mud flats, such as ...
Chicago Great Western Railway – 1892–1893, 1894–1955 1893–1894 Chicago, St. Paul and Kansas City Railroad: CGW 1892 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway: Amtrak 1890–1971 Erie Railroad: EL 1890–1960 Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway: PCC&St.L Railroad: 1890–1917 Chicago and Northern Pacific Railroad: CTT 1890 ...