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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 ...
Steel rails began to replace iron later in the 19th century. Several railroads imported steel rails from England in the 1860s, and the first commercially available steel rails in the U.S. were manufactured in 1867 at the Cambria Iron Works in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. By the mid-1880s U.S. railroads were using more steel rails than iron in ...
1847 – First train in Switzerland, the Limmat, on the Spanisch-Brotli-Bahn Railway line. 1848 – First railway line in Spain, built between Barcelona and Mataró. 1848 – First railway in South America, British Guyana. The railway was designed, surveyed and built by the British-American architect and artist Frederick Catherwood. John ...
1836 - Lake Wimico and St. Joseph Canal and Railroad Company - was the first railroad to enter into actual operation in Florida. 1837 - Tallahassee - St. Marks Rail Road - was the first railroad "Chartered" in Florida (in 1831), but was the second to be completed and begin cargo-hauling operations.
The first passenger train in South India ran from Royapuram / Veyasarapady to Wallajah Road on 1 July 1856, for a distance of 60 miles. It was built and operated by Madras Railway. [ 109 ] On 24 February 1873, the first tramway (a horse-drawn tramway ) opened in Calcutta between Sealdah and Armenian Ghat Street, a distance of 3.8 km. [ 110 ]
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Tom Thumb was the first American-built steam locomotive to operate on a common-carrier railroad.It was designed and constructed by Peter Cooper in 1829 to convince owners of the newly formed Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) (now CSX) to use steam engines; it was not intended to enter revenue service.
The northern lights may illuminate night skies this week. Here's how to see them