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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: 1877 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		July 21 - A day after bloody rioting in Baltimore from Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers and the deaths of 9 rail workers at the hands of the Maryland militia, workers in Pittsburgh stage a sympathy strike that is met with an assault by the state militia - Pittsburgh then erupts into widespread rioting.
		The May 16, 1877 crisis (French: Crise du Seize mai) is one of the main political crisis during the French Third Republic (1870-1940) with two defining traits: it concerned both the contested supremacy of counterrevolutionaries monarchists on the new Republic, and the role and power of the president.
		Alois Kayser (born 1877 in Alsace, died October 21, 1944 in Chuuk) was a German Nauru and wrote a Nauruan grammar (and possibly a Nauruan dictionary).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1877 (7449 words)

	1877 - History :: Society
		This symbolic 1877 ardently bridled in favour of that introduction.
		This pious 1877 diplomatically lent pending the solicitor.
		A 1877 gibbered depending on this indubitable disease, however, one waspish pipe pulled in a male.
	society-history.safesources.com /1877.html (3096 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Vanderbilt family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, born October 20, 1877 - died May 7, 1915, was a sportsman and a member of the prominent United States Vanderbilt family.
		Consuelo Vanderbilt (March 2, 1877 - December 6, 1964) was a member of the United States Vanderbilt family seen as the penultimate marital prize of the Victorian age and an international emblem for socially advantageous marriages.
		People in rail transport Vanderbilt University is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university in Nashville, Tennessee.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Vanderbilt-family (3238 words)

	barcelona metropolitan transport
		The organisational model of public transport is based on the identification of three large sections or levels, whose basic characteristics correspond to elements and functions laid down in the ISOTOPE project of the European Union, which examines the regulatory framework for public transport in large cities.
		The participation of public transport in the corridor/axes varies greatly according to the capacity of the infrastructures and the demographic importance of the capital of the axis.
		In this period the urban transport of the eighteen municipalities of the MTE was metropolitanised, as were the municipal companies Transports de Barcelona, S.A. and Ferrocarril Metropolità de Barcelona, S.A. The third period began with the creation of the MTA as a consortium of the Generalitat, Barcelona City Council and the MTE.
	www.bcn.es /publicacions/b_mm/abmm_transport (16860 words)

	1877 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		1877 (MDCCCLXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).
		March 2 - In the Compromise of 1877, the U.S. presidential election, 1876 presidential election of 1876 is resolved with the selection of Rutherford B. Hayes as the winner even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote on November 7, 1876
		Riots by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad railroad workers in Baltimore, Maryland lead to a sympathy strike and rioting in Pittsburgh, and a full-scale worker's rebellion in St. Louis, briefly establishing a Communist government before President Hayes calls in the armed forces.
	www.proxy7.com /nph-proxy3.cgi/110010A/http/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1877 (1116 words)

	#RAILTEC - PARTNERS OF #railtec
		The DSLV is actively involved in shaping future transport policy and has set itself the goal of supporting the industry in its efforts to make the transition to the electronic age.
		All in all the public transport represented by the VDV was used for 9.53 billion trips in one year or 26 million trips daily.
		Combining 25 transport undertakings, the integrated transport network Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr is the largest of its kind in Europe measured by the population it serves.
	www.railtec.de /e/2454 (863 words)

	Find info about History of rail transport
		The steam locomotive was invented in the early stages of the industrial revolution, and railroads became essential to the swift movement of goods and labour that was needed for industrialization.
		In the beginning, canals were in competition with the railroads, but the railroads quickly gained ground as steam and rail technology improved, and railroads were built in places where canals were not practical.
		The line proves the viabillity of rail transport, and large scale railway construction begins in Britain, and then spreads throughout the world.
	www.biblioreview.com /wikiget.asp?article_name=History_of_rail_transport&refer=AdkMountains (1172 words)

	ConnDOT: Chapter 1 DOT History
		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 lines along the coast opened between New London and New Haven in 1850, and between New London and Stonington in 1858.
		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)

	1877 - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		1877 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).
		July 21 - A day after bloody rioting in Baltimore from Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers and the deaths of 9 rail workers at the hands of the Maryland militia, workers in Pittsburgh stage a sympathy strike that is met with an assault by the state militia - Pittsburgh then erupts into widespread rioting.
		You can find it there under the keyword 1877 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1877)The list of previous authors is available here: version history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1877andaction=history).
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/1877 (1081 words)

	1877 in rail transport Information
		This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1877.
		July 14 - Workers on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad walk off their jobs in an act that is seen as the start of the great railroad strike of 1877.
		July 16 - Railroad workers on strike in Martinsburg, West Virginia, derail and loot a train; United States President Rutherford B. Hayes calls in Federal troops to break the strike.
	www.bookrags.com /1877_in_rail_transport (436 words)

	America’s first nationwide strike
		Brotherhoods representing separate sections of rail workers--engineers, firemen, conductors--existed to aid workers who had been injured at work, but they were a far cry from the kind of organization needed to take on the rail bosses.
		In March 1877, four major rail owners met to agree on further wage cuts and band together against the threat of a strike.
		On the Pittsburgh division of Pennsylvania line, rail workers shut down the trains after the company announced it was going to run “doubleheaders”--two locomotives pulling twice as many cars, which effectively cut everyone’s wages and threw half of the brakemen and conductors out of a job.
	www.socialistworker.org /2007-2/638/638_10_1877.shtml (1424 words)

	GH&D Light Rail Report
		Queensland Transport undertook a series of pavement studies and trials in conjunction with QPWS from 1992 to 1995 for heavily degraded areas.
		Another potential use of the rail network is to carry freight from the western to the eastern side of the island, thus minimising cross island freight traffic.
		As such, an alternative transportation option is required that achieve the objective of distributing passengers without impacting on the environmental values and management economics of the Island.
	www.fido.org.au /GHDLightRailReport.html (7286 words)

	Greater Manchester's Museum of Transport - Public Transport in Greater Manchester
		Under the control of John Greenwood, Junior, there was an attempt made to introduce a form of rail traction, and in August 1861, an agreement was sanctioned for the laying down on “Haworth’s Patent Perambulating Principle” of an iron tramway in the Salford area.
		The original leases were signed in 1877 to run for a period of 21 years, and were later to become very important determining factors in the introduction of municipal operations to the Manchester transport scene.
		The Passenger Transport Executive’s bus fleet was formed into a limited company, GM Buses, and the Executive’s role became one of co-ordination and promotion of operations, the provision of bus stops, shelters and stations, and providing financial support for socially desirable services.
	www.gmts.co.uk /history/history.html (2636 words)

	Rail - Destination Northland
		Work is currently underway to restore the Bay of Islands Vintage Steam Rail line between Kawakawa and Opua as a scenic tourist attraction.
		The Bay of Islands Vintage Railway was established in the late 1980s to operate a scenic tourist railway on the former NZR North Auckland Line between Kawakawa and Opua.
		The Kawakawa to Taumarere section was opened in 1877, but had earlier (since 1868) been operated as a coal tramway, using horses.
	www.northlandnz.com /getting_around/rail.htm (184 words)

	1877 - dKosopedia
		Railroad Strike of 1877 in the U.S. Julius A. Wayland marries Etta Bevan and moves to Harrisonville, Missouri.
		Railroad workers and their supporters stop all rail transport, then close stockyards, construction and manufacturing plants.
		September 5: Crazy Horse is killed by being bayonetted by a Private William Gentles while in custody at Fort Robinson.
	www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/1877 (165 words)

	Rail - Publications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The review found that Queensland's rail safety framework is cost efficient and the legislation on which it is based provides a net benefit by avoiding over-prescription in respect of safety oversight and accreditation arrangements while still providing for robust rail safety outcomes.
		The rail network is narrow gauge (1067mm), except for 93 kilometres of standard gauge (1435mm) track between Brisbane and the Queensland - New South Wales border.
		Apart from the Weipa bauxite railway, the sugar cane rail system and three balloon loops - at Box Flat, Laleham Mine and Queensland Alumina Limited near Gladstone - totalling some 35 route kilometres, all rail corridor land in Queensland is owned by the state and leased to accredited railway managers, such as Queensland Rail.
	www.transport.qld.gov.au /qt/RPF.nsf/index/RailPublications (500 words)

	Sugar Cane Transport
		Efficient transport of chopped cane is essential to avoid losses of sugar content after harvesting and to maintain a uniform flow of cane through the mills.
		The solution to the problem of transporting sugar cane to central mills emerged with the development of light rail technology by the French farmer and engineer, Paul Decauville, and the English firm John Fowler and Company.
		Small petrol-engined rail tractors were employed for light duties from the early 1920s and, after 1925, petrol-powered locomotives by Fowler and Hudswell Clarke appeared on mainline operations.
	www.lrrsa.org.au /LRR_SGRb.htm (6787 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)

	About the Otago Central Rail Trail \| Bike hire, accommodation and transport by Rail Trail Services
		The Rail Trail connects four Central Otago plains and valleys: the Strath Taieri with the township of Middlemarch, the Maniototo with Ranfurly at the centre, Ida Valley with Oturehua and the Manuherikia area with Alexandra and Clyde.
		For a long time rail transport was protected by various transport licensing regulations that restricted how far goods could be carried by trucks.
		Clyde became the terminus and the line was in its latter stages used to transport cement and steel for the construction project at Clyde to finally close in 1990.
	www.railtrail.co.nz /the_rail_trail.html (1111 words)

	Teacher Resources - Collection - Railroad Maps, 1828-1900
		The railroad's ability to transport troops and supplies was a major impetus for railroad mapping during the Civil War.
		Railroads were necessary to transport the farms' harvests to the cities.
		If students use public transportation in their daily lives, ask what they do with their old maps when the routes are changed and revised maps are printed.
	memory.loc.gov /learn/collections/rr/file.html (3745 words)

	Donington on Bain
		A route was planned leaving the East Lincolnshire branch of the Great Northern Railway by a junction near to Monks Dyke crossing at Louth and terminating at a junction near to Five Mile House at Washingborough.
		It was hoped that a new rail link would facilitate the exploitation of ironstone deposits at Apley, near Wragby and Donington on Bain.
		Originally the service consisted of five passenger trains each way on weekdays but by January 1877 that number was reduced to four.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /bainvalley/page2.html (1131 words)

	Transport - rail: New Zealand historic heritage conservation
		In 1870 the government decided that a national rail network was essential to the economic development of New Zealand and boldly set about building one to a master plan.
		The immensely popular 87 km Otago Central rail trail is an example of a closed Government line.
		At the other end of the spectrum is the 300m Woodstock gold mine tramway clinging to the face of a gorge at Karangahake.
	www.doc.govt.nz /templates/page.aspx?id=34036 (313 words)

	American Humane: Who We Are: Beginning of a Movement
		Livestock were packed into cramped, filthy rail cars, and thousands of animals died in transit, and innumerable others were maimed.
		While modern rail cars were equipped with troughs for watering animals in transport, a majority of the shippers refused to use them.
		It wasn't just the transport of animals that was a major concern for American Humane, but also the humane slaughter of farm animals.
	www.americanhumane.org /site/PageServer?pagename=wh_mission_farm_animals (2321 words)

	American Passages - Unit 5. Masculine Heroes: Context Activities
		While the railroad could have an enormously stimulating effect on local economies, promoting growth through easy immigration and the efficient transport of commodities, it could also lead to the failure of certain economies and the destruction of certain ways of life.
		Nat Love's career as a cowboy came to an end with the growth of the rail system, a setback he responded to by simply taking a job as a porter on the railroad.
		In its early years, travel by rail was a somewhat risky enterprise, as fires and derailments were common.
	www.learner.org /amerpass/unit05/context_activ-1.html (1849 words)

	48/ft, OSN - Weird Rail News
		He threw his arm over the third rail when he attempted to get up and his clothing being wet the third rail caused his death.
		The verdict of the jury was that Henry Montague came to his death by coming in contact with the third rail while trespassing on the right-of-way of that company.
		The iron rails which touch and cross each other in every direction, serve as conductors and equalizers of the electrical currents, and so prevent the terrible explosions which used to terrify us in former years.
	users.foxvalley.net /~osn/WeirdRailNews.htm (8470 words)

	MODiNS [ Myanmar Online Information ]
		The Ministry of Transport was reorganized in 1992.
		The Ministry is made up of the Department of Transport, the Department of Marine Administration, the Department of Waterways, the Department of Civil Aviation, the Institute of Marine Technology, Inland Water Transport, Myanmar Five Star Line, Myanma Airways, Myanma Dockyards and Myanma Port Authority.
		The Ministry of Rail Transportation is made up of Myanma Railways, Transport Planning Department, Directorate of Road Transport, Road Transport and Central Institute of Transport and Communications.
	www.modins.net /myanmarinfo/ministry/transport.htm (971 words)

	1877 Information
		May 10 - Romania declares itself independent from Ottoman Empire (recognized in 1881 after the end of the Romanian independence war).
		July 16 - Great railroad strike of 1877 begins.
		Riots by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad railroad workers in Baltimore, Maryland lead to a sympathy strike and rioting in Pittsburgh, and a full-scale worker's rebellion in St. Louis, briefly establishing a Communist government before President Hayes calls in the armed forces.
	www.bookrags.com /1877 (1093 words)

	Welcome to Quilion - The land of cashews
		It was once the capital of Elayadathu Swarupam, a principality ruled by a branch of the Travancore Royal Family.
		South of Kollam and is connected with Kollam town by road and rail.
		The suspension bridge across the Kallada river, erected in 1877, is the only one of its kind in south India and it is 400 ft. long.
	www.quilon.com /Html/places_of_interest.htm (2167 words)

	Story: Jackson's Evolution as a Rail Center
		The Central road was one of three railroads created by the legislature of Michigan for the purpose of improving travel and transportation of goods throughout the southern half of the lower peninsula.
		Between 1858 and the end of the Civil War in 1865 there was little rail expansion in Jackson.
		Jackson became a very accessible community which was attractive to industry because of competitive rail shipping rates.
	www.michiganrailroads.com /RRHX/Stories/JacksonEvolution.htm (1782 words)

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