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	Transport - Search View - MSN Encarta
		Modern commercial transport includes all the means and facilities used in the movement of people or property, and all services involved in the receipt, delivery, and handling of such property.
		The early refinement of water transport was stimulated by the tendency of populations to centre on sea coasts or navigable waterways.
		Routed through rail, roads, ships, or aeroplanes, a freight container is locked and sealed at origin, and the contents are not disturbed until the seal is broken by the consignee when the freight is unloaded at its destination; only one bill of lading or air waybill is issued.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /text_761558787__1/Transport.html (3592 words)

	Air Transport Industry - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		In 1910 the air transport industry was established in Germany when regular air service with gas-filled airships called dirigibles began to provide service between cities.
		At the end of the war, fledgling commercial air carriers took advantage of the ruined ground transportation system and the large surplus of aircraft and pilots.
		The air transport industry has grown enormously in the second half of the 20th century.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761552091___8/Air_Transport_Industry.html (1848 words)

	Welded Rails
		Rail guide wheels are lowered to the rail providing the proper gauge guide for the loose rail while the rubber tires are dropped to the exposed ties and ballast outside the rails providing traction.
		The rail installation continues across the grade crossing and the new planking is installed in half of the crossing.
		A roller rail guide suspended from the main boom line was attached to the ribbon rail and while working the boom the rail was lifted slightly and trailed behind the advancing crane coming to rest between the main line rails.
	www.alaskarails.org /industries/welded-rails.html (1743 words)

	First Railroads in North America
		Not germane to the functional definition of a particular line of rails, and hence to questions of its classification as a railroad, are: the source of motive power, kind of material for rails and supporting ties (sleepers), varieties of things transported, or classification under law as a private or public carrier.
		One of the massive timber rails was grooved – U-shaped – and the opposite one tongued.
		Rails at first were of wood and then of granite, both topped by iron straps.
	cprr.org /Museum/First_US_Railroads_Gamst.html (5083 words)

	Transport - German New Guinea - German Neuguinea railways 19th Century (1884 - 1914)
		In 1884 a charter was granted to the Neuguinea Kompagnie (NGK) to enter into relations with the native people, to experiment with the cultivation of useful tropical crops, to prepare for settlement and to serve as a basis for administration when established.
		Rails were also used at Asitavi sawmill and to build a copra drier at Tenakau.
		In 1888, it was reported that track and rails had been completed for conveying phosphate across the reef surrounding the island for loading onto ships.
	www.pngbuai.com /300socialsciences/transport/railgerman1a.html (5151 words)

	Passenger rail in the 20th Century - Railway Age, December 1999
		America's great continental network of rail passenger services was able to absorb an enormous leap in traffic that came with the war effort of World War I. The passenger volume on U.S. Class I railroads grew steadily all through the war years and afterward.
		Amtrak and VIA Rail were born out of a belief that a nationwide system of intercity rail passenger service was in the national interest, and both have come far in restoring the quality and reliability of these services.
		With this substantial growth of rail systems in the past several decades, urban and regional/commuter rail have represented the fastest growing segment of public transit for close to two decades.
	www.railwayage.com /dec99/passenger.html (3077 words)

	DANBURY BRANCH PASSENGER STATIONS
		It is 12.7 rail miles north of the main new Haven Line at the South Norwalk Railroad Station and 3.8 miles north of the Cannondale Station in Wilton, CT. Access to the station is by bridge and across an ungated at-grade railroad crossing.
		It is 17.3 rail miles north of the main line at the South Norwalk Railroad Station and 4.6 miles north of the Branchville Station.
		A 1996 HVCEO rail report envisioned that the existing parking lot of 230 spaces would be rehabilitated and expanded slightly to accommodate 250 parking spaces, the additional 30 spaces and some current spaces to service rail users.
	www.hvceo.org /transport/railstations.php (4706 words)

	Railroads
		He favored the stone and rail construction consisting of an iron rail resting upon a continuous line of granite blocks of suitable size and length supported by a rubble wall and secured from lateral motion by embedding them in stone and gravel.
		Stagecoaches were used to transport passengers between Norwood and Massena until the Massena line was opened in 1886 with the traditional parade and speeches accompanying a dinner at White's Hotel.
		On January 2, 1975, Michael J. Walsh, Jr., vice president for transportation and distribution of the St. Regis Paper Co. and the president of the N. and St. L., donated the assets of the railroad to the Ogdensburg Port Authority and assured the continuation of rail service.
	norwoodny.org /railroads.html (7849 words)

	sh: Transport Through The Ages - Brooke Bond tea cards offered in the interest of education
		Horse drawn transport reached its zenith in the stage coach of 19th century Europe and North America.
		The stage coach remmained a dominent factor in transport until the railroads superseded it.
		Trams, that is, wheeled vehicles running on rails laid in the roadway, developed, like the railways, from the transport used in mines.
	www.whom.co.uk /squelch/transport.htm (3811 words)

	Bury Corporation Transport: 1903-1969 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The earliest mention of a transport system in Bury was in 1796 when a twice-weekly horse-drawn coach, which travelled between Rochdale and Manchester via Bury, was withdrawn due to lack of patronage.
		On the 16th November 1942 the Regional Transport Commissioners made an order that stopping places for public service vehicles should be arranged on the basis of four per mile, with the view to saving fuel and prolonging the life of vehicles.
		The Transport Act of 1968 allowed double-deck buses to be operated by one-person (up until then only single-deck buses had been permitted to be one-person-operated).
	www.petergould.co.uk /local_transport_history/fleetlists/bury1.htm (3612 words)

	RailNews
		A total of 626 miles of new rail was laid across the 12 months, 511 sets of points were installed, and 450 miles of ballast renewed.
		Minister for Transport John Watkins said new legislation, introduced to parliament overnight, provided legal backing for the minister to establish boards of inquiry to investigate serious accidents.
		The 1,100-metre Fukasawa Tunnel was built in 1903 for the JR Chuo Line, but it was closed in 1997 due to its deteriorating condition.
	www.railpersonnel.com /railnews/railnews050527txt.htm (2258 words)

	THE GLOBAL RAILWAY Press Bureau: "All Aboard for the Baghdad Railway." (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		From Europe via Istanbul, the epic rail journey reached Baghdad and beyond as far the port of Basra on the Shatt al 'Arab waterway with the Gulf.
		In 1903, right-of-way was granted to extend the route from Istanbul (then Constantinople) into the eastern province of Anatolia.
		The Istanbul-Baghdad rail link was not completed (through Syria and into Iraq) until after the Great War of 1914-1918, which the project helped foment.
	www.theglobalrailway.com /pressbureau/features/TheBaghdadRailway.htm (329 words)

	Tearing up the Tracks. Public transport in the UK pulled to pieces to make way for death, pollution, stress..... and ...
		Rail privatisation is the best step ever towards making the railways succesful and encouraging investment but you are only going to see that on long distance peak lines and dense commuter networks.
		One of the many criticisms of the former British Transport Commission regime was that, of their 15 members of the BTC board, only 2 were railwaymen.
		The aim should be to harmonise and co-ordinate the newer and older forms of transport with the objective of obtaining from each the maximum of advantage to th e public.
	www.mega.nu:8080 /ampp/www.bilderberg.org/railways.htm (4861 words)

	Railroad History in the Finger Lakes
		It should be noted that all railroads in Geneva at this time, except the Fallbrook, used the rails to one passenger station on East Lewis St. Thus it is not surprising to note records of altercations between opposing trains of the different railroads occurring at the station from time to time.
		The transportation act of 1920 canceled the USRA and set up the ICC as the planning agency to solve the problem of too many railroads.
		The USRA concluded that the Lehigh Valley's position, with inadequate merchandise tonnage and crippling deficits, was untenable as a competitive trunkline railroad and could not be retained even as an alternate freight route.
	fglk.railfan.net /history.html (3604 words)

	Rail Transport in The World's Major Cities
		Investment in rail transport is generally 80% publicly funded with the remainder being financed by the private operator.
		Public transport in Berlin is supplied by four operators: the S-Bahn railway, a subsidiary of German Railways (DBAG), linking the city centre and suburbs; the U-Bahn subway network in built-up parts of the city; trams mainly in the former East Berlin; and buses.
		The public transport system is rated quite highly by users, because it covers most parts of the city, transport information services are well integrated, the fare structure is simple, and the trains are clean and not crowded.
	www.jrtr.net /jrtr25/f04_oka.html (6808 words)

	Ridgeville Spur - www.NiagaraRails.com
		The rail cars probably climbed this steep gradient empty, but could be loaded with sand and gravel, fruit and nursery stock for the return trip.
		It was busy in the 1920's, but as road transport improved, and the costs of maintaining the line rose, the company applied to the Railway Commissioners to close it.
		The last notation of rail activity by the nursery was in April 1913 but it is uncertain how long they continued to ship by rail.
	www.niagararails.com /ridge.shtml (5142 words)

	Ireland's Railway Systems
		This battery is used for road and rail transport, and has operated eighty-ton suburban passenger trains on the Great Southern Railways for several years without one failure.
		Through rail communication between Belfast and Londonderry was, however, not established until the completion of the viaduct over the River Bann at Coleraine in 1860.
		In 1903 the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway was taken over by the Midland Railway of England, and since then its affairs have been administered by the Northern Counties Committee.
	mikes.railhistory.railfan.net /r051.html (9156 words)

	Historic Iditarod Trail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Iditarod and the sled dog were part of a system of transportation and a way of life in Alaska that were in many ways unique in the world.
		Most of the trails followed major rivers, and the Yukon became a highway for almost its entire length as soon as the ice was thick enough to chase the summer steamboats to their winter moorings and provide solid footing for the dog teams.
		Transportation was strictly controlled and gold miners were near the bottom of the priority list.
	sunhusky.com /trail (9358 words)

	The Wirral Transport Museum - Home
		A less well known fact is that from this tram works, the first Trolleybus was built and it was operated in Cleveland Street, using the Corporation tram lines and a skate.
		The trams operated from a purpose built depot in New Ferry, as the tramcars were built lower than the rest of the fleet, to negotiate under a low bridge outside ‘Lairds’ the Shipbuilders, ‘Pioneers of the Iron Hull’ in Shipbuilding.
		In 1903 ‘Lairds Bros’ amalgamated with the steel manufactures Charles Cammell and Co Sheffield, and the famous name of Cammell Lairds and Co. Ltd was born.
	www.wirraltransportmuseum.org (847 words)

	Chicago in 1900 Transportation
		Although roads reached from Chicago to all points of the nation, both the roads and vehicles used for road travel in 1900 were vastly inferior to rail and water transportation, and were little used by travelers going for more than a day’s ride (15 miles or so by wagon—often a little farther by bicycle).
		Chicago by 1900 had become the rail center of the nation, so convenient freight and passenger connections were available to every part of the nation.
		Nevertheless by 1903, the first year figures are available, the steam railroads handled almost 34 million passengers in the suburban service.
	www.chipublib.org /004chicago/1900/transport.html (2508 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 (10516 words)

	Rail Heritage WA
		The Rail Transport Museum at Bassendean, Perth Western Australia is Western Australia's premier museum devoted to railway history.
		The Society ran rail tours to raise funds and in 1969 serious work commenced to develop a museum to display the collection of locomotives, rollingstock and items of railway memorabilia that had been collected over the years.
		You are welcome to assist in the preservation of the unique rail heritage of Western Australia by becoming a member of the society.
	www.railheritagewa.org.au /museum/museum.htm (849 words)

	Transport Blog
		My favourite transport sports, at least as ideas, are definitely those twin blooms of Americana, Stock Car Racing (ancient saloon cars) and whatever they call that amazing sport where they charge around in the front bits (only the front bits) of huge articulated lorries.
		Beneath and beyond all such geekery, there lies a theory, which is that, just as some sportiness may be involved in developing it in the first place, as soon as a means of transport has had its day, it survives, but as a sport.
		It also mattered outside of mere sales too because in 1903 these two papers were on either side of Dreyfus affair.
	www.transportblog.com /archives/002674.html (2415 words)

	The Ely-Goldfield Railroad and Other Vapor Routes
		Initially, before rail lines were laid into these areas, transportation costs were so expensive, for example between Tonopah and the railheads at either the Carson and Colorado or the Nevada Central (for conveyance to the smelter at Selby, CA), that ores assaying at <$100/ton were not processed.
		Among the five-projected rail lines that were "sure" to be built, the map depicts the first of two particularly prominent proposals to link Ely with the southern camps — the one to connect Ely with Tonopah.
		The result was the loss of substantial TandG transportation revenues from haulage to the older mill site at Millers and the practical end to plans for projected rail routes from Millers to other mining areas.
	nn.railfan.net /vapor/vapor.htm (4517 words)

	April 2003 Editorial - Model Railroad News
		The steam locomotive did not yet exist, and land transportation moved at the speed of horse, oxen, and human feet.
		By 1903, tracks ran into all the small corners of the nation, and towns sprang up near the rails.
		Transportation was at the core of Jefferson’s decision, though even he could not envision the transport network which would open this land for settlement.
	www.modelrailroadnews.com /pages/edAprl03.html (833 words)

	The Great Strike on the Railroads of Holland by Herman Gorter
		According to the decision of the international congress of transport workers held at Paris these bodies were combined into a federation.
		In 1903 there was another collision between these unions and the warehouse corporations, known in Dutch as the “Veemen”.
		Finally, and this was the most important of all, employers agreed to request the government to abolish the article of the railroad regulations which compelled the railroad employes under all conditions to accept goods for transportation.
	www.marxists.org /archive/gorter/1903/rail-strike.htm (2017 words)

	Turtle Creek Industrial Railroad
		This historic short line railroad is a wholly owned subsidary of Dura-Bond Industries, Inc. TCKR is an important 11 mile rail link between Export and Trafford, Pennsylvania where it interconnects with the Norfolk Southern.
		The Pennsylvania Railroad operated the line from 1891 and later purchased the railroad in 1903.
		Bituminous coal became the primary freight and was mined throughout the area.
	www.dura-bond.com /railroad.html (360 words)

	January 2006 Editorial - Model Railroad Newsage
		The truth of that period wasn’t found in the firsts, such as the Wright Brothers flight in 1903, nor was it found in immense undertakings.
		Of the fuels used in transportation, 61 percent is gasoline, 24 percent is diesel, and 9 percent is jet fuel, all of these from petroleum.
		Of even greater interest is that the largest, single transportation means is the automobile, accounting for 34 percent.
	www.modelrailroadnews.com /pages/edJan06.html (926 words)

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