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	Rail to the Rescue - Part 1
		In the 1850s, rail travel was a 'state of the art' development, endowed with an aura of glamour that thrilled its passengers.
		Born into a world that accepted the horse as the fastest means of transport, they had the impression of passing through a time warp as their locomotive ate up the miles between major towns at speeds previously considered the stuff of science fiction.
		Rail was becoming a world-wide industry, developing in countries as far-flung as Argentina, Algeria and Russia, and driven by British expertise and technology, headed up by confident charismatic and vigorous entrepreneurs.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/crimean_war/118364 (495 words)

	Transport - Papua New Guinea - Australia railways 19th Century & 1914 on ...
		The object to the line being to facilitate the transport of ore and commercial products from the several mines and plantations in the vicinity and it is hoped that it will also be the means of further opening of the more outlying and remoter districts of Sogeri and Brown River.
		In 1917, rail was purchased for a railway on the wharf.
		Mail was unloaded from steamers and railed direct to the post office, where it was unloaded under the shelter of the verandah.
	www.pngbuai.com /300socialsciences/transport/railaust19c1.html (3934 words)

	ConnDOT: Chapter 1 DOT History
		In 1854, the state permitted the turnpike corporations to give their roads back to the towns through which they passed, and, at about the same time, provided for turnpike franchise forfeiture as the penalty for neglecting repairs.
		Water transportation had always been popular and favorable on the Connecticut River, for commerce as well as travel, and the river was still a very active waterway in these years.
		Rail expansion continued until 1920, when there were 938 miles of track in the state.
	www.ct.gov /dot/cwp/view.asp?a=1380&Q=259692&dotPNavCtr= (4092 words)

	1928 in rail transport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1928.
		June 13 - The first tests are performed with the first rail detector car, invented by Elmer Ambrose Sperry, in Beacon, New York.
		September 22 - Canadian Premier John Bracken drives the last spike on Canadian National Railway's line between Flin Flon and Cranberry Portage, Manitoba.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1928_in_rail_transport (423 words)

	Chapter 4: Building Australia's First Railways, 1848-1873 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This was conceived from the beginning as a total transportation system, carrying a wide range of commodities as well as passengers in different classes of accommodation in scheduled trains run by the company.
		It is a peculiar measurement, which probably arose from the fact that the rails were laid five feet apart measured across their outside faces, thereby creating what became the standard gauge between the rails' inner faces.
		Once the rails had reached the Murray, Melbourne was assured at least of the temporary economic domination of the rich pastoral districts of southwestern New South Wales.
	www.ahc.gov.au /publications/national-stories/transport/chapter4.html (4795 words)

	Tomorrow's Railroads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		From 1940 to 1980, the weakness of the rail industry was no surprise, given intermodal competition and the scope of railroad regulation.
		By 1978, the rail share of intercity freight had fallen to 35 percent, down from 75 percent in the 1920s.
		During these years, the rail network grows from 35,000 miles to a peak of 254,000 miles in 1916.
	www.tomorrowsrailroads.org /history.asp (1248 words)

	1854 - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		1854 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).
		December 8 - Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogma of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Virgin Mary was born free of original sin.
		The Polyglotta Africana, an early classification of African languages based on field work under freed slaves in Freetown, Sierra Leone, is published by Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/1854 (1243 words)

	Newton, NJ - Sussex Railroad
		The Sussex Mine Railroad was chartered on March 9, 1848, for the sole purpose of transporting iron ore between Andover and Waterloo.
		The grading completed, the contract for laying the iron rails was awarded in November 1868 to Isaac L. Overton, the contractor and builder of the Episcopal Church in Newton.
		Automotive transportation of farm products stole business and passenger service was discontinued due to the fact that a majority of the passengers preferred to use buses, reducing the number of railroad passengers to one or two per day.
	www.newtonnj.net /Pages/railroad.htm (12188 words)

	Text Only Version -- National Register of Historic Places Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor Travel ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Transportation routes built for commerce developed slowly in eastern Pennsylvania, and it was not until after the American Revolution that some thought was given to open the upper river regions to transportation canals.
		Transport of goods to markets there was critical to the development of the region's economy.
		As a transportation system covering three states in the northeastern United States, the DLandW Railroad management acted in the 1899-1939 period to increase its efficiency in operation through larger equipment and to diversify from its reliance on the transportation of anthracite coal.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/Delaware/textonly.htm (13633 words)

	1891 in rail transport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1891.
		April 19 - a fatal collision in Kipton, Ohio between a freight train and a passenger train, attributed to a faulty engineer's pocket watch which stopped for 4 minutes.
		It is one of the most extensive rail disasters in American history, yet only three people are killed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1891_in_rail_transport (344 words)

	Austria's Rail Transport
		At the beginning of the nineteenth century increasing trade called for improved transport, and this led to the construction of Austria's first railway.
		Gerstner advocated a horse railway from Linz to Joachimsmuhle, but left the project in the hands of his son, who in September, 1824, was granted by the Emperor Franz I the exclusive right of building a wood and iron road between Mauthausen, on the Danube, and Budweis (now called Ceske-Budejovice).
		It was built to a gauge of 3 ft. 7-1/2 in., and had a ruling gradient of 1 in 120.
	mikes.railhistory.railfan.net /r094.html (4388 words)

	Evaluation Geographic Arguments
		The purpose of this lab is to examine this soundness of this generalization about the geography of the evolving rail system, using ArcView and the railway and population GIS for Victorian England and Wales.
		The building of railroads required so much capital that rail companies were at pains to ensure that their large investments would eventually return a profit.
		Then the rail lines can be overlaid the map indicating the centers of natural resources and industry so that we can use visual inspection and interpretation to “test” the claim.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /courses/rschwart/hist361/labs/geog-arguments.htm (359 words)

	The Egyptian Rail Museum (Trains and other Transport)
		Trains are a major means of transportation, and why not learn a little about them while waiting to board one at the Cairo train station.
		The first railway route in Egypt was built in 1854, between Alexandria and Kafer Eassa, and it reached Cairo in 1856.
		Transportation before steam engines section: This section demonstrates the evolution of transportation from the period of the pharaohs until the invention of steam engines.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/trainmuseum.htm (1223 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Transportation was a major problem facing early settlers in Texas.
		As late as 1850 the settled area of the state was largely confined to the river bottoms of East and South Texas and along the Gulf Coast.
		This, along with the failure of the proposed Texas high-speed rail connecting the four major cities to obtain financing, meant that additional rail passenger service in Texas was unlikely.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/RR/eqr1.html (4319 words)

	QT - Types of Transport Past!! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A transport system was difficult to establish but it was important to the survival and growth of the colony.
		From 1854 onwards, a network of railways was built throughout the country and helped in opening up many areas for settlement.
		The main reason for rail development was to connect the hinterland with the major seaports which in most cases were the capital cities.
	www.transport.qld.gov.au /qt/qtkids.nsf/index/typesPast (2499 words)

	Woonsocket's Railroads
		Prior to the railroad, freight was transported by horse and wagon or by the Blackstone Canal.
		The P&W's Woonsocket depot was one of the finest on-line stations in New England and made Depot Square the commercial and transportation hub of the city.
		By 1854, his New York and New England Railroad ran from Boston through Blackstone all the way to New York.
	www.woonsocket.org /railroads.html (681 words)

	Early Railroads of New York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The road was opened from Auburn to Geddes with wooden rails, June 8, 1838, at which date Sherwood's stage horses were put upon the line between Auburn and Geddes, and continued to draw the cars till June 4, 1839, when the "iron horse" was put on in their place.
		The charter was amended April 20th, 1837, so as to increase the capital stock $1,000,000, and authorized the directors to borrow to the amount of $400,000 for the completion of the road, and to secure the loan by a mortgage upon the property and stock of the company.
		On July 3, 1854, he wrote a letter to the Directors, resigning his office, calling attention to the condition of the books, saying that much would be found there wrong, and excusing his brother (his partner) of all blame.
	www.catskillarchive.com /rrextra/abnyrr.Html (7737 words)

	Pennsylvania Railroad History : Pennsylvania's Railways
		Very few, if any, industries affected the growth of America as significantly as the development of the ability to transport goods — and people — by rail.
		When the engineering marvel was completed in 1854, America had its gateway to the west.
		Rail stations became the center of Pennsylvania towns' economic and social activity.
	www.parailways.com /history (318 words)

	Dates in Canadian Railway History
		This is the longest rail tunnel in the Americas.
		Lawrence and Hudson Railway is formed by merging the CP Rail routes in southern Ontario and Quebec with its Delaware and Hudson subsidiary in northern USA.
		The line is managed by Orangeville and Brampton Rail Association Group and Cando Contracting operates the line with running rights to an interchange with CPR at Streetsville.
	www.railways.incanada.net /candate/candate.htm (10460 words)

	INDEPENDENCE TO THE CIVIL WAR: 1776-1861
		The Cambria Works at Johnstown were established in 1854 and, by the end of the Civil War, were the largest mills in the country.
		Rail transport began in 1827, operated at first by horse power or cables.
		In miles of rail and in total capital invested in railroads, Pennsylvania led all other states on the eve of the Civil War.
	www.legis.state.pa.us /WU01/VC/visitor_info/pa_history/III.htm (4035 words)

	Historical significance of Flora (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The development of the city of Flora is tied to the history of rail transportation in America.
		In 1854 the city of Flora was surveyed and platted for the purpose of constructing a railroad depot.
		The Flora depot was built to serve east-west rail traffic on the Ohio-Mississippi Railroad that connected Cincinnati to East St. Louis.
	www.urban.uiuc.edu /projects/Flora/history.html (436 words)

	Birth of Railways in Eastern India
		He could see the great potential of the rail transport in Bengal as a commercial venture since the province was rich in agriculture and mineral resources.
		He was the first person to have introduced the idea of rail roads in India and vigorously advocated the construction East Indian Lines from Howrah to Delhi via Mirzapore.
		At the Howrah end, the station consisted of a tin shed and a single line flanked by narrow platforms, somewhat to the south of the present station building which was constructed between 1901 and 1906.
	railindia.tripod.com /history_er.html (1232 words)

	Halifax County, Virginia, History
		The success of the B&O Railroad as a transportation link for the farmers and expanding regional markets convinced a majority of legislators that railroad construction was not only viable, but necessary for the economic health of the Commonwealth.
		Though the transport of hospital patients and prisoners added to the R&D railroad's use, they were a minor part of the large increase in traffic volume promulgated by the war.
		Virginia's transportation networks were one of the main Union targets during the war, and by 1865 were in ruins.
	www.oldhalifax.com /county/historicalMonograph.htm (11972 words)

	The Story of the G.W.R.
		When the directors of the newly formed company had approved of this route, a detailed survey of it had to be made for the purpose of presenting the scheme to Parliament and the passing of the necessary Bill.
		Early prejudices against the new method of transport were slowly vanishing: the authorities at Eton College, who had formerly regarded the railway's influence with disfavour, chartered a special train for the conveyance of their pupils.
		The Metropolitan Railway, which in 1854 was incorporated to construct a sub-surface line from Paddington Suburban to Farringdon Street, had a useful ally in the Great Western.
	mikes.railhistory.railfan.net /r010.html (8069 words)

	State Rail Authority
		The 1930 Transport Act (No.18, 1930) removed the responsibility for tramway and omnibus services from the Railway Commissioner and vested them in transport trusts under the control of a Commissioner of Road Transport.
		In 1952 an amendment to the Government Railways Act made provision for Ministerial control and in 1972 the Public Transport Commission was established under the terms of the Public Transport Commission Act (No.53, 1972).
		The Transport Authorities Act (No.103, 1980) provided for the abolition of the Public Transport Commission and the establishment of the State Rail Authority, with a Railway Workshop Board subsidiary, and an Urban Transport Authority.
	www.records.nsw.gov.au /cguide/sy/sra.htm (491 words)

	History Channel Search Results
		Extensive mining in the U.S. commenced about 1820; until 1854 more than half of all the coal that was produced in the U.S. was Pennsylvania anthracite.
		The explosive blast brings down and partially shatters a large chunk of the coal face, which is then loaded by machines into low, electrically propelled shuttle cars that bring the coal to a central loading point.
		The belts transport the coal to waiting shuttle cars or mine conveyor belts that carry it to the surface.
	www.historychannel.com /thcsearch/thc_resourcedetail.do?encyc_id=216525 (3299 words)

	Vanguard - Columns : Transport minister taken for a ride
		The minister can be excused if air transport was carved out of his portfolio by a President who has not learnt how to minimize the expenses of governance as demonstrated by the fact that the Nigerian president has the largest cabinet of any country on earth.
		That is a mini-digression but pertinent because as I said, the honourable minister for transport is a medical doctor.
		With aviation out of his bag, the minister had three other means of transport to contend with: road, water and rail.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/columns/franklyspeaking/fs26062005.html (1187 words)

	Railroad Collections
		Also contains correspondence of Emmons' brother-in-law Robert Eliot concerning family matters, and includes an 1852 letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Theodore Parker concering the inscription on the Concord Bridge, and an 1854 letter of appointment to the rank of lieutenant from Matthew C. Perry to Garret V. Denniston.
		Report to the Wisconsin Electric Railway Historical Society, Inc. detailing the condition of the railroad overhead from the interchange at Mukwonago to Highway 20 at East Troy, Wisconsin, including a written description, detailed nomenclature and overhead defect drawings, and color photographs.
		Includes records of organizations of which Mowry was an officer: the Citizens Civic Council of Milwaukee County and the Property Owners and Renters Association of Milwaukee concerning such items as electric railroads, coal supply, and a water filtration plant; and a 1922 letter from the Federal Trade Commission concerning food and coal prices.
	www.uwm.edu /Library/arch/rail.htm (1396 words)

	NORFOLK SOUTHERN R. CO. V. JAMES N. KIRBY,PTY LTD. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Likewise, Norfolk’s rail journey from Savannah to Huntsville was a “fringe” portion of the intercontinental journey promised in the ICC and Hamburg Süd bills.
		The international transportation industry “clearly has moved into a new era–the age of multimodalism, door-to-door transport based on efficient use of all available modes of transportation by air, water, and land.” 1 Schoenbaum 589 (4th ed.
		Kirby and ICC contracted for the transportation of machinery from Australia to Huntsville, Alabama, and, as the crow flies, Huntsville is some 366 miles inland from the port of discharge.
	supct.law.cornell.edu /supct/html/02-1028.ZO.html (5195 words)

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