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	Railroad information for 1935 rail map.
		The AGS Company was acquired in 1890 by the Richmond and Danville and the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia.
		Beginning as a logging railroad in 1887, by 1906 the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad, located in Georgia, was ready to extend from Manchester, in western Georgia to Birmingham and to Atlanta, which is did by 1908.
		In the meantime, the Atlantic Coast Line was in control of the A, B and C, and the Atlantic Coast Line had acquired control of the Louisville and Nashville in 1902.
	www.bhamrails.info /Railroadinfo.html (2589 words)

	Blossom Company Cotton Mobile Riverboat Steamboat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Baseball, religion, work, death, blossom company cotton mobile riverboat steamboat and the company store -- these figured eminently in the lives of Southern cotton mill workers blossom company cotton mobile riverboat steamboat and their families during the early decades of the twentieth century.
		He describes the nature of cotton mill work, the stresses blossom company cotton mobile riverboat steamboat and strains produced by undesirable working conditions, blossom company cotton mobile riverboat steamboat and the various ways in which workers blossom company cotton mobile riverboat steamboat and their families learned to cope.
		The workers of Bladenboro are gone, blossom company cotton mobile riverboat steamboat and little remains of the mills, but this work pays tribute to lives well lived under the most challenging circumstances.
	la50.3rdfaze.info /blossomcompanycottonmobileriverboatsteamboat.html (847 words)

	Misc. Acts Hancock County
		Full Title: To incorporate a company for the improvement of the navigation of that part of the Oconee river, between the Big Shoals, at John Barnett's, and the town of Milledgeville.
		AND be it further enacted, That the said company shall remain, and continue a body politic, under the restrictions, limitations and provisions aforesaid, for thirty years, to commence from the day when the corporation shall order the reception of the toll, according to the conditions of this act.
		Be it further enacted, That the said "Montour Company" shall have the power to employ the operatives in said Company's Factory, during the period of the year between the 20th day of September and the 20th day of March, in each, from sunrise until half past seven o'clock, P.
	www.georgiagenealogy.org /hancock2/acts.html (1662 words)

	Henry B. Plant Bio
		Henry Bradley Plant, (October 27, 1819 - June 23, 1899), founder of the Plant System of railroads and steamboats, was born in Branford, Conn., the son of Betsey (Bradley) and Anderson Plant, a farmer in good circumstances.
		After the war, the railroads of the South were practically ruined and many railroads went bankrupt in the depression of 1873.
		In his will he attempted to prevent the partition of his properties to the value of about $10,000,000 by forming a trust for the benefit of a great-grandson, but the will was contested by his widow and declared invalid under the laws of the state of New York.
	www.plantmuseum.com /history/bio.shtml (854 words)

	The Project Gutenberg Etext of The Railroad Builders
		Yet the enthusiasts for railroads could not be discouraged, and presently the whole population divided into two camps, the friends of the canal, and the friends of the iron highway.
		The condition that prevailed in many railroads is illustrated by the fact that the directors of the Michigan and Southern, when they held their annual meeting in 1853, had to borrow chairs from an adjoining office as the sheriff had walked away with their own for debt.
		Soon after this panic and before the company had begun to recover from its effects, John W. Garrett, one of the large stockholders in the road and son of a Baltimore banker, was elected to its presidency, and a new chapter in the history of the Baltimore and Ohio began.
	www.nevadaheritage.com /history/RR-history.htm (19862 words)

	The Frisco: A Look Back at the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway
		Few employees of the Frisco Railroad are acquainted with the history of the Frisco emblem or insignia which appears on timetables, advertising material, annual reports, calendars, etc., and is used by Employee Clubs on the railroad in making up their yearbooks.
		Pioneer residents along the constructed and projected lines of the railroad were jubilant over the merging of these two ambitious interests, and must have given many a cheer when the newly organized Atlantic and Pacific redoubled its efforts on the construction.
		Railroaders in general, and the Frisco family in particular, can take pride in having been a part of the founding of this educational monument to all transportation -- the service that has bound together and thus made possible America's great culture.
	thelibrary.springfield.missouri.org /lochist/frisco/history/100years.cfm (4964 words)

	The Saga of the Live Oak & Gulf
		The first railroad in the area was the Suwannee River Railway, a logging tapline owned by the Suwannee Steam Mills at Ellaville, 15 miles north of Luraville.
		While only 9 miles was needed to reach Luraville, the company only had enough money to construct the grade, ties and rails were far beyond their reach.
		This was all the progress the company did for all of 1893 and 1894.
	www.taplines.net /feb/loandg1.htm (945 words)

	Railroad Guide: Special Collections, University Libraries, Virginia Tech
		The railroads include the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis and Chicago Railway Company, the Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad Company, and the Utica and Schenectady Railroad Company.
		Railroad official for several railroads in the eastern United States in the mid to late 1800s, born in Mt. Carbon, Pennsylvania.
		Master of transportation for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (1872-77), receiver for the Long Island Railroad (1877-80), president of the Danville, Mocksville & Southwestern Railroad Company (1880-?), president of the Cincinnati, Wheeling & New York Railroad (1883-?), and general manager of the Kanawha & Ohio Railroad (1886-?).
	spec.lib.vt.edu /railroad/guiderr.htm (1444 words)

	The Railroad Comes to Georgia
		Railroads had been used for years in Europe for the purpose of mining and goods moving.
		The meeting to organize the railroad commission was held on March 10, 1834, in the library of James Camak.
		Other railroads in the state, such as the Central Georgia Railroad, which stretched from Savannah to Macon, and Western and Atlantic Railroad which would stretch from what would become Atlanta all the way to Chattanooga, were growing by leaps and bounds in the 1830's.
	mgagnon.myweb.uga.edu /students/Johnson.htm (2633 words)

	Rivanna Chapter, NRHS - This Month in Railroad History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It was the oldest of the long railroad tunnels still in use at the end of the steam era.
		After a violent clash between railroad strikers and State troops in Pittsburgh, a battle and riot ensues in which 2000 freight cars are burned and $10,000,000 in railroad property is destroyed.
		Railroad strike expands from coast to coast, becoming the first nationwide strike against the railroads.
	avenue.org /nrhs/histjul.htm (1570 words)

	Railroad Postcards, Railway Post Cards & Train Photos (A - R Company Names)
		The railroad is the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western.
		The railroad itself, begun in 1852 was the first railway on the African continent.
		Alco PA 4202 is flanked by / EMD E7's..." unused chrome from the railroad.
	www.judnick.com /Railroads.htm (8996 words)

	MPHS - Missouri Pacific Railroad History
		West from that point the railroad was purposely located away from the Missouri River for fear that it would be unable to compete with the steamboats.
		Since the original impetus behind construction of the Iron Mountain railroad had been the desire to reach the iron ore and other mineral deposits thought to abound in the Ozark foothills south of St. Louis, an all-out effort was being made to complete the 84.5 miles to Pilot Knob as quickly as possible.
		The railroad's multi-million dollar automated classification yard at North Little Rock, which went into operation in 1961, was first expanded in 1962, again in 1964 when eight classification tracks were added to make a total of 64, and again in 1966 when a special adjoining city freight yard was built.
	www.mopac.org /history_mp.asp (6450 words)

	Everglades Digital Library
		A railroad and tourist domain was established by Henry Plant down the West Coast and on a larger scale by Hamilton Disston and Henry Flagler on the lower Atlantic."
		Following the Civil War, the railroad and canal companies faced financial ruin with the devaluation of confederate currency.
		Hamilton Disston's companies, the Okeechobee Land Company and Atlantic and the Gulf Coast Canal Company, undertook the first attempt to drain the Everglades.
	www.fiu.edu /~glades/reclaim/timeline/timeline5.htm (1150 words)

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		Henry Bradley Plant, the prominent railroad, steamboat, express and hotel entrepreneur, was born in Branford, Connecticut on October 27, 1819.
		During the Civil War, Plant started the Southern Express Company which was given power by the Confederate States of America to collect tariffs and in addition, given custody of all confederate mail and funds being transferred from one location to another.
		The Belleview became a retreat for the wealthy whose private railroad cars were often parked at the railroad siding built to the south of the hotel.
	www.hotelinteractive.com /hi_articles.asp?func=print&article_id=5391 (1667 words)

	NS Railway Companies
		The Atlantic & Inland Railway Co. was incorporated by chapter 86 of the Acts of 1896, to build a railway from Liverpool, via Caledonia, to Annapolis or New Germany or Springfield.
		The Atlantic & Inland Railway Co. of Nova Scotia was incorporated by chapter 153 of the Acts of 1893, to build a railway from Liverpool, via Caledonia, to Annapolis or New Germany.
		The Dominion Coal Company was incorporated on 16 February 1893 with an authorized capital of $18,000,000.
	alts.net /ns1625/railways.html (9539 words)

	Railroad Maps of the United States, United States State Maps,antique maps,antique globes, historical prints, travel ...
		Obviously the purpose of the map is to highlight Norfolk as the eastern seaboard point for the trans-U.S. railroad, northern route as a brightly colored line from Norfolk to Oregon showing "Equidistant to New York-Norfolk".
		Attractive Colton map of the eastern U.S. with the railroads of the South just after the Civil War shown in blue and the short "airline" railroad shown in red.
		Afadavits signed by Chief Engineer Adna Anderson and two other senior railroad officials attesting this to be correct route and location for land on which to build all the needed maintenance buildings and depots.
	www.murrayhudson.com /antique_maps/united_states_maps/railroad_maps.html (7606 words)

	Rivanna Chapter, NRHS - This Month in Railroad History
		The first remote control railroad passenger car is tested on the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad between New Rochelle and Rye, NY.
		Their goal was to build a railroad around the many rapids on the Columbia River between The Dalles and Celilo Falls.
		The first stone arch railroad bridge in the world, the Carrollton Viaduct, is officially opened on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad over Gwynn's Falls at Baltimore, Maryland.
	avenue.org /nrhs/histdec.htm (1078 words)

	FLRails.com :: The Official Florida Railfans' website
		Services were provided for the transport of passengers and their baggage directly between the hotel and the railroad train platforms and nearby steamboat docks on Lake Monroe (St. Johns River) by covered carriage.
		The South Florida RR was the predecessor of the Atlantic Coast Line RR between Sanford and Tampa.
		The Plant Investment Company (PICO) Building was built in 1887, in an architectural style of Turkish influence with a red brick exterior crowned with an onion-shaped dome.
	www.flrails.com /index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&ceid=145 (537 words)

	Mid Atlantic Region, Philadelphia - Record Groups 3 - 41
		Among the records are those of cases involving the Erie railroad track and national standardization of rail gauges, 1854; the Ku Klux Klan, 1927-1928; and the steel industry.
		In 1903, it was transferred to the Department of Commerce and Labor along with the Steamboat Inspection Service, which had been established in the Department of the Treasury in 1852 to formulate rules and regulations for steamboat inspections.
		The two bureaus were merged in 1932 to form the Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection, which was renamed the Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation (BMIN) in 1936.
	www.archives.gov /midatlantic/holdings/rg-001-049.html?template=print (5715 words)

	Railroad
		Tariff, Mobile & Ohio Railroad, Map, 1917, 8 X 11 In.
		Northern Pacific Railroad, Galvanized Tin, Embossed, 14 In.
		Pennsylvania Railroad, Brown Locomotive, Enameled, 4 1/2 In.
	www.kovels.com /priceguide/kovels_railroad (1128 words)

	Map Collections: Title Index
		Map of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad and its connections
		Map showing the operations of the Army of the Potomac under command of Mag.
		The coast and land line of the rebellious states-the Union blockade of the Atlantic and Gulf coast-the rebel batteries on the Mississippi-the forts on the southern sea line
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/gmdhtml/gmdtitlindex1.html (1156 words)

	[No title]
		TONOPAH and TIDEWATER R.R. VICKSBURG, SHREVEPORT and PACIFIC RAILROAD
		Information on the park and Alaska tours via the railroad and steamboat line.
		Information on Alaska and railroad, steamboat, and motor tours.
	www.sdmodelrailroadm.com /tt/default.htm (1424 words)

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