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	1880 in rail transport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1880.
		July 10 - The California Southern Railroad is organized to build a rail connection between San Diego and a connection with the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad in California.
		Mexican President General Manuel González grants a rail concession to Albert Kinsey Owen to build the Chihuahua al Pacífico
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1880_in_rail_transport (424 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)

	Freight on Rail - Members
		Freight on Rail is a partnership of the rail freight operators, Rail Freight Group, Network Rail, the transport trade unions and Transport 2000 working to promote the shift to rail freight.
		Network Rail is now the operating company responsible for maintaining the tracks, signals, tunnels, bridges, viaducts, level crossings and stations on the network.
		Transport 2000 campaigns for a more sustainable transport system and provides information on a wide range of transport issues.
	www.freightonrail.org.uk /Members.htm (538 words)

	Interurbans
		In the United States, it had long been the practice for rails to be laid in city streets, over which railway cars, both passenger and freight, were transferred from station to station and from station to shipper, drawn by line teams (two to four horses in tandem).
		Rails were light, perhaps 56 pounds per yard, and narrow gauge, say 3 feet, was quite common, since these railways were promoted at the height of the narrow-gauge fever.
		Rail joints were bonded with copper wire welded into plugs that were hammered into the rail web on each side of a joint.
	www.du.edu /~jcalvert/railway/trolley.htm (13488 words)

	1880 - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		1880 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar).
		October - terrible winter storm in North America, the "Blizzard of 1880".
		You can find it there under the keyword 1880 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1880)The list of previous authors is available here: version history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1880andaction=history).
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/1880 (830 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)

	Road Transport History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		They effectively suppressed motorised road transport for sixty years through legislation imposing a speed limit of 5km and cleverly made it self-policing by requiring that a vehicle be preceded by a man on foot with a red flag.
		Although rail infrastructure was more expensive to build than roads because of the moderate grades and sweeping curves that the relatively low-powered and inefficient locomotives required, these, allied to steel rails ensured low unit operating costs.
		Rail fares plummeted in the space of a few years and mass travel became possible with the coming of the third class ticket.
	www.ruralroads.org /roadtrans.html (885 words)

	Eureka County, Nevada -- Yucca Mountain Information Office -- Report on the Carlin Rail Route Option, 1993
		Potential transportation modes and routes, including regional highway and rail options that may be used to transport high-level wastes to the site of a potential Yucca Mountain repository, are being studied in Nevada by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
		Transportation activities in Nevada are focused on the development of rail access to the Yucca Mountain site, evaluations of potential transportation impacts in Nevada, coordination with other DOE transportation activities, and response to transportation issues raised in Nevada.
		For another, conditions along a historical rail route — in terms of land ownership, land use, and the natural environment — may be significantly different today than in the past.
	www.yuccamountain.org /carlin03.htm (1882 words)

	Spencer Street Station - Rail - Trains - Transport - Melbourne Online - Only Melbourne
		Melbourne's Spencer Street Station, the most important rail terminal in Victoria, will be redeveloped into a world-class public transport interchange, with fast rail connections to regional Victorian centres and new facilities for rail, taxi and bus passengers.
		The station is synonymous with the rise of rail transport in Victoria and is now being redeveloped as a world-class public transport interchange.
		1880 The first signal box is erected at Spencer Street, ensuring that signals to trains are coordinated with track connections.
	www.onlymelbourne.com.au /melbourne_details.php?id=3115 (1017 words)

	Halifax County, Virginia, History
		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.
		By 1880, the transition from slavery to wage working, sharecropping, and tenant farming was complete, with many planters relying on a combination of labor systems.
	www.oldhalifax.com /county/historicalMonograph.htm (11972 words)

	Albany Area Railroads -- History & Context, Mohawk & Hudson Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		While the Mohawk River was also a transportation conduit, it was not until the Erie Canal was constructed under Governor DeWitt Clinton in the 1820's that transportation to and from the west of the Capital District progressed substantially.
		To overcome these obstacles and to facilitate water transportation, canals were built paralleling the rivers and using them as a source of their water supply, eg.
		On the open or private right of way there was exposed third rail running along the track on the outside of one of the running rails and elevated a little in distance from the ground so the third rail shoes of the electric cars and locomotives could slide along it.
	www.crisny.org /not-for-profit/railroad/capdist.htm (6312 words)

	Tauscher Requests Comprehensive Rail Safety Study (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		WASHINGTON--Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-CA) sent a strongly worded letter to the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today requesting a comprehensive investigation by the Federal Railroad Administration of the rail lines in California that would be used to transport the planned spent nuclear fuel shipments.
		The train derailments in Contra Costa County have caused many to question the safety and reliability of the rail transport system in Contra Costa County and the entire state of California.
		Ensuring that California’s rail transport system is secure is particularly important in light of the Department of Energy’s intention to transport, via rail, shipments of spent nuclear fuel rods beginning in the Spring of 1998.
	www.house.gov /tauscher/press/10-8-97.htm (387 words)

	Toward Green Mobility: the evolution of transport - Jesse Ausubel, Cesare Marchetti, Perrin Meyer
		The picture is slow penetration of new technologies of transport adding speed in the course of substituting for the old ones in terms of time allocation.
		All the history of transport reduces to the fundamentally simple principle: produce speed technically and economically so that it can be squeezed into the travel money budget.
		The history of transport technology can be seen as a striving to bring extra speed to the progressively expanding level of income.
	phe.rockefeller.edu /green_mobility (7281 words)

	The Fish Car Era of the National Fish Hatchery System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Because of transport limitations, fish were generally first planted in areas near the rearing stations.
		Rail shipments of fish increased as the interest in "managing" streams and lakes spread.
		If no rail terminus was nearby, a fish car messenger would unload 25 or 30 pails of fish and transport the shipment to a more convenient pickup point.
	www.catskillarchive.com /rrextra/fishcar.Html (1979 words)

	Dates in Canadian Railway History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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)

	MISSISSIPPI RAIL GROUP
		The provisions of this section shall be enforced by the Mississippi Department of Transportation.
		For the purposes of this section the words "railroad track materials" shall mean any rail, switch component, spike, angle bar, tie plate or bolt of the type used in constructing railroads.
		For the purposes of this section the words "copper materials" shall mean copper or brass materials, either hard drawn or soft drawn, copper wire or cable of the type used by public utilities or common carriers or brass pipe or fitting or any combination of these.
	www.ksry.com /police.htm (4358 words)

	SEPTA Regional Rail Lines
		SEPTA Regional Rail's 30th Street Station is actually above ground, not in a tunnel, however it is still part of the center city "tunnel" corridor.
		The state Department of Transportation helped fund the improvements to be used by I-95 drivers over the next few years as programs begin to completely rebuild the highway.
		The revival of rail service on this line is very controversial, with two adjoining counties (Bucks and Montgomery) fighting each other over it (Bucks wants it, Montgomery does not).
	world.nycsubway.org /us/phila/regionalrail.html (12754 words)

	National Railway Museum Port Adelaide - Rail History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The final boundary of land under the plough and the extent of the rail system is largely south of the 254 mm isohyet.
		From 1906, cheaply constructed rail lines were pushed throughout the Murray Lands and from 1907 on Eyre Peninsula, purely to encourage agricultural settlement.
		This was perhaps inevitable once the Government repealed in 1963 the Road and Railways Transport Act of 1930, thus exposing the railways to intense competition from road transport.
	www.natrailmuseum.org.au /common/nrm_a01_index.html (2112 words)

	Rail and Freemasonry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		When rail was proposed to link Wellington with the north there were two schools of thought as to the most suitable route (a) via Hutt Valley (b) via the West Coast through Johnsonville and Paekakariki.
		He saw adequate tram transport was provided to enable city brethren to attend meetings with regularity and not use the excuse of having no transport.
		Life and interest centred on the gold mine, with poor transport one of the most important employees of the mines were the engine drivers.
	www.mastermason.com /railcraft/RandFM.htm (6930 words)

	Coal and Transportation in Virginia
		Most Virginia coal is shipped by rail to power plants on the Ohio river or to three major ports - Charleston (in South Carolina), Norfolk (by the Norfolk Southern Railroad), and Newport News (by CSX Railroad).
		Low-cost transport, by rail and ship, has made it possible for Virginia to export coal since development of the original mines in Midlothian.
		Shipping coal by rail to domestic power plants is cost-effective today, but the rail traffic from the mountains to the Virginia ports on the Chesapeake Bay has diminished substantially.
	www.virginiaplaces.org /transportation/coaltransport.html (885 words)

	Virginia Creeper Trail Guide - History of the Virginia Creeper Trail
		It was believed that the land in the area around Abingdon was rich with minerals such as coal and iron, but there was no resource to transport the ore to market.
		During the late 1880's the rail company began to secure the land rights to build a railroad from Abingdon to Damascus.
		By the early 1890's not one rail had been laid on the partially cleared rail bed.
	www.vacreepertrail.com /history/vacreeperhistory.htm (541 words)

	Major Projects - Fernleigh Track Rail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		There are very few transport corridors like this left for non-motorised traffic in urban and suburban New South Wales.
		It was used to transport coal from mines in the Lake Macquarie area to the Port of Newcastle.
		Some of the rail line has remained as part of the refurbishment of Fernleigh Track and serves as a reminder of the historic nature of the corridor.
	www.ncc.nsw.gov.au /majorprojects/fernleigh/index.cfm (482 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)

	Forums at the Society - The Switch To Motor Transport
		Though it is hard to qualify what is "significant" in history (since so many things seemingly unimportant at the time prove to have been vastly underated and visa versa) I expect that it is fair to say that the truck was far and away a much earlier "significant" contribution.
		In addition, however, I think a sometimes missed aspect of this story is that motor transport had the initial effect of increasing cavalry efficiency, and was not a threat to cavalry.
		Keeping in mind that the writer might have been including artillery horses and those used for transport in his "cavalry" definition (remember, it was a motor magazine) there may have been real pressure to come with alternatives if the military felt its future supplies (or more important, potential war-time supplies) were gradually vanishing.
	www.militaryhorse.org /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4708 (4867 words)

	A History of Ormondville Railway Station
		Its former location and associated rail route are still clearly visible from the town.
		Road transportation had also predominated over rail transport.
		The history of Ormondville Rail Preservation Group traces to the official closure of the Ormondville goods yards on 31 August 1985.
	www.geocities.com /ormondvillerail/ormstation.html (2935 words)

	Ogden Rails, Rail-Served Industries
		Among the earliest salt plants, in 1880, was George Payne's, located in Syracuse, named for the salt-industry center of the same name in New York state.
		The year 1945 was also the peak year for livestock-related rail traffic, with 20,000 cars of sheep, 19,000 cars of cattle, and 6,000 cars of hogs being either unloaded at Ogden, or loaded after sale, or re-loaded after the prescribed four-hour rest period.
		Railroads, and the low-cost transportation they offered, were important to the canneries and each of these successful canning factories was located on a railroad spur, which allowed direct shipment of canned goods to market.
	utahrails.net /ogden/ogden-industry.php (6187 words)

	Transportation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Railroads could transport faster and could handle heavier loads than the steamships.
		As settlement of the state continued, the rivers became insufficient in handling the amount of commerce and traffic across the state to the major ports on the coast so, by the 1920s, the steamships had all been replaced by a network of rail lines.
		The first railroad in the area around Sanford was the South Florida Railroad from Longwood to Sanford in 1880.
	pegasus.cc.ucf.edu /~tbeaureg/Transportation.html (546 words)

	Representative Crowley: New York: Long Island City
		Terminals were built for the Flushing Railroad (1854) and the Long Island Rail Road (1861).
		During the Civil War Hunter's Point was industrialized and was connected to Astoria by a street railway in 1869.
		Between 1874 and 1880 swamps were drained and the land filled in to a depth of ten to thirty feet to end flooding.
	crowley.house.gov /newyork/longislandcity.htm (406 words)

	Chicago is the Nation's Railroad Capital
		Before operations were assumed by the regional transportation authority, approximately 90,000 daily passengers rode three routes from Chicago.
		Built in the 1880s, the abandoned factory that was purchased by the state in 1990 was to have become a transportation museum.
		Large drug hauls are being transported by couriers on Amtrak and commuter trains in the Northeast, U.S. authorities say.
	www.lakemirabel.com /Railroad/ChicagoRailCapital1.html (1590 words)

	Ormondville Rail Preservation Group Inc.
		The Rail Enthusiasts Society's 'Silver Fern' excursion train is shown here racing through Ormondville Station on 29 October 2005, bound for Napier.
		However, times and favoured modes of transport have changed, and Ormondville’s period of district prominence, linked so closely with that of its station, has ended.
		It remains, however, New Zealand’s oldest complete rural rail precinct, which Ormondville Rail Preservation Group is restoring to match its 1950s heyday.
	www.geocities.com /ormondvillerail (592 words)

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