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	Granite railway
		The granite was transported via an innovative granite tramway that led down from the moor to Stover and thence to Teignmouth Docks.
		The tramway was constructed from large grooved granite blocks that made up the rails and consists of a main line with six sidings that served the individual quarries.
		Fragments of the granite junction at East quarry - SX 753768.
	www.richkni.co.uk /dartmoor/granite.htm (518 words)

	Caradon Hill Lines
		The liskeard and Cardon Railway was built to carry Copper and Granite from the Caradon hill area down to the Canal basin of the Liskeard and Union canal.
		Mines and quarries replaced the farmers and agricultural merchants as the Canals largest customers.But as Ore and granite replaced lime and sand the transport infrastructure down to Moorswater became overloaded and in 1846 the Liskeard and Caradon Railway was built to link the canal with the mines at Caradon Hill.
		The railway carried Granite and the closure of the quarries in 1882 marked the end of traffic on the line.Some of the route did become part of a proposal for a railway extending Northwards across the Moor to Trewint but only earthworks on this line were ever completed.
	www.geocities.com /teammanley/CaradonRail/Companys.htm (1058 words)

	Quarries in Maine & Quarry Links, Photographs, and Articles - Page 11
		The granite from the quarry was reportedly a medium-gray shade, "a trifle darker than 'Hallowell granite'" and still darker than "North Jay granite.'" It had a fine to medium texture.
		Granite from the quarry was a light pinkish-gray color, with sparse conspicuous biotite, and a medium to coarse texture.
		The granite from the Bryant Pond Quarry was used exclusively for bridges and stations on the Grand Trunk Railway.
	www.cagenweb.com /quarries/states/me-quarries_11.html (1722 words)

	1942 Quiz Book on Railroads and Railroading (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The Granite Railway Company, incorporated by the Massachusetts legislature March 4, 1826, and still in existence, was the first railway corporation actually to build and operate a railroad in this country.
		The Granite Railway, about 3 miles in length, was built by Gridley Bryant to convey huge blocks and columns of granite from the quarry in Quincy to Milton, on the Neponset River, for use in the construction of Bunker Hill Monument.
		From 23 miles of completed railroad in 1830, the railway mileage of the United States increased to 2,818 miles in 1840; 9,021 miles in 1850; 30,626 miles in 1860; 52,922 miles in 1870; 93,296 miles in 1880; 163,597 miles in 1890; 193,346 miles in 1900; 240,439 miles in 1910; and 252,845 miles in 1920.
	www.railwaystation.com /1942/ - !http://www.railwaystation.com/1942/15.html (7607 words)

	National Park Service: Architecture in the Parks (Great Northern Railway Buildings)
		The northernmost of the chalets is at Granite Park and is reached by hiking trails.
		Granite Park chalet development, constructed in 1914, consists of a dormitory and a "chalet" used as dining hall, resident living quarters, and guest rooms.
		Granite Park chalet has additional local significance in park history and folklore as the location for some of the events of a night in August, 1967, when two young women were killed in the park by grizzlies--the first such documented incidents to happen since Glacier was established as a national park.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/harrison/harrison8.htm (3130 words)

	The Railway
		Granite was needed in large quantities by John Macadam, who was in charge of building and improving the roads within the City of London at this time.
		Mountsorrel granite quarry was linked to the new line and within three years the order book at Groby decreased to such a degree that it was decided to operate the granite quarry for the Bradgate estate needs and local orders only.
		The Leicester and Swannington railway was later joined to the Midland railway at both Knighton (south of the Leicester railway station) and Burton upon Trent but this was not until August 1849.
	www.grobydirectory.co.uk /history/railway.html (1322 words)

	EARLY RAILS, SILLS, A STONE BLOCKS.--PHILADELPHIA AND COLUMBIA RAILROAD--Ringwalt
		THE IRON is the same as that used on the Wigan railway, the rail weighing forty-one and a quarter pounds to the yard.
		All the railways of Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida used flat bars, varying in dimensions from 2 x ½ to 2½ x ¾ except the South Carolina, and portions of the Georgia and Central roads, of Georgia.
		All the railways of Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Kentucky used flat bars, except the Pontchartrain, of New Orleans; the Mississippi; the Vicksburg and Jackson, and the Grand Gulf and Port Gibson.
	www.catskillarchive.com /rrextra/abrw09.Html (3460 words)

	Railroad Gauge and a horse's ass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Railways existed within mines since at least the mid-1500's, so it is not strange that British mines had railways in 1800.
		This Granite Railway, or Quincy Railway, was built to a 5 foot gauge in 1826.
		The second railway in the US was a mining railway, planned in the mid-1700's, a gravity railway for the mining at Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, and built in 1827.
	www.discoverlivesteam.com /magazine/34.html (2265 words)

	Granite for the Temple
		After the foundation was level with the ground, we commenced to use granite, which had to be hauled some eighteen miles, and we hauled it with oxen and mules.
		Construction of the railway made it possible for whole trainloads of granite blocks to be rolled onto the temple grounds every few days as needed.
		During the building of the Salt Lake Temple, when granite stones were being hauled by team and wagon the 20 miles from the Little Cottonwood Canyon quarry to the temple site, a stopover camp used by the drivers was established at South Cottonwood.
	utahrails.net /articles/granite.php (912 words)

	Gridley Bryant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In investigating how to move the granite needed for these projects from the quarry in Quincy to the work sites, he concluded that the best method would be via a railroad, much like that of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway which was still in the planning stages at the time.
		Construction began on the Granite Railway, one of the first railroads in North America, on April 1, 1826, with the first train operating on the railroad on October 7, 1826.
		The only real difference between Bryant's Granite Railway and the Liverpool and Manchester was in the motive power; Bryant used horses and gravity to pull his trains, while the Liverpool and Manchester used steam locomotives.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gridley_Bryant (426 words)

	Attractions
		Granite Railway/Quarry Exhibits: Quincy is home to America's first commercial railway - the Granite Railway, built in 1826 specifically to transport Quincy granite to Charlestown for the construction of the Bunker Hill Monument.
		The remains of the Railway's incline are located at the end of Mullin Ave.
		Granite quarrying exhibits are also on display in the Presidents Place Galleria, 1250 Hancock St., Quincy Center.
	www.discoverquincy.com /attractions.htm (783 words)

	Granite Railway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The last active quarry closed in 1963; in 1985, Boston's Metropolitan District Commission purchased 22 acres, including Granite Railway Quarry, as the Quincy Quarries Reservation.
		Its wagons had wheels 6 feet (1.8 m) in diameter and were pulled by horses, although power supplied by steam locomotive had been in operation in England for two decades.
		Scholes, Robert E. The Granite Railway and its Associated Enterprises.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Granite_Railway (938 words)

	Department of Conservation and Recreation
		It was here in West Quincy that America's large scale granite quarrying industry was born in 1825 when, after an exhaustive search throughout New England, Solomon Willard selected the area as the source of stone for the Bunker Hill Monument in Charlestown.
		The Granite Railway, a Civil Engineering Landmark, was established in 1826.
		It was designed and constructed by railway pioneer Gridley Bryant, and many of his inventions are still in use today.
	www.mass.gov /dcr/parks/metroboston/quincyquarries.htm (268 words)

	Granite Construction Incorporated: Careers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		One of Granite’s career opportunities may be the career you’ve been looking for.
		Why Granite is listed as one of the 100 Best Companies in America to work for.
		Granite Construction Incorporated has been named to FORTUNE magazineâs list of the â100 Best Companies to Work For in Americaâ.
	www.graniteconstruction.com /careers/index.cfm (100 words)

	First Railroads in North America
		Advocacy of British-design railways, both of wood and of iron, began in the Philadelphia Aurora as early as 1801.
		Sometimes confused with the railway, a nearby oxen-powered plankway transporting quarried granite on sledges to riverside.
		For typical statements concerning the Granite Railway as the first in the United States and for correct engineering details of the line see: Boston Daily Advertiser, 16 March, 9 October 1826; C.H. Snow, A Geography of Boston (Boston, 1830), p.
	cprr.org /Museum/First_US_Railroads_Gamst.html (5083 words)

	Birthplace of the American Dream
		Quincy's granite industry was famous the world over, with many of America's most prominent statues and monuments sculpted from granite quarried here.
		Quincy's granite industry also played a role in the city's population growth, as immigrants from Finland, Sweden, Italy and other countries settled here to work in the quarries.
		So prolific was the Quincy granite industry that at one point there were nearly two dozen granite quarries operating in the city.
	www.discoverquincy.com /americanDream.htm (989 words)

	Great Model Railroads from Allen Keller Productions
		Doug Geiger's Granite Mountain Railway is a three level HO layout made for operation.
		A helix is the trick that makes a multi-level railroad a reality, and Doug will describe some of his methods for building the 3 on the Granite Mountain.
		The 10 year-old Granite Mountain is the work of an informal club.
	www.allenkeller.com /GMR08.htm (222 words)

	Stone Mountain, Dekalb County, Georgia
		Small amounts of granite were quarried in the area east and south of Stone Mountain as early as the 1830's, but large-scale efforts to quarry the mountain probably started around 1850 following the completion of a spur line to a quarry site in 1847.
		The Stone Mountain Railway and Granite Company, which purchased the mountain on February 5, 1867, ran "Dinky" between the village and Stone Mountain, mostly carrying stonecutters, quarry labor and granite.
		On July 16, 1887 the Southern Granite Company sold Stone Mountain for $45,000 to the Venable Brothers of Atlanta, who would continue to run a quarry on the mountain for 24 years.
	ngeorgia.com /mountains/stonemountain.html (1658 words)

	The Brighter Side of History - March 4
		In 1826, the first chartered railroad in the U.S. was chartered as the Granite Railway in Quincy, MA.
		It was organized to transport granite blocks from quarries in the Blue Hills that were used to build the Bunker Hill monument.
		The Granite Railway was an inclined plane built to carry granite to Neponset wharf and thence to Charlestown via barges for construction of the Bunker Hill Monument.The Granite Railway also carried stone to Boston Harbor for shipping, as well as for the Minot’s Ledge lighthouse at the entrance to Boston Harbor.
	www.amug.org /~jpaul/mar04.html (3098 words)

	Massachusetts Studies Project home
		The tallest granite monument in the U.S. is the Pilgrim Monument in Provincetown.
		Quincy was the site of the Granite Railway, the first railroad in the country in 1826.
		Boston has shown this railroad to be the 12th in the U.S. The Granite Railway was an inclined plane built to carry granite to Neponset wharf and thence to Charlestown via barges for construction of the Bunker Hill Monumnet.
	www.msp.umb.edu /firsts.html (863 words)

	Timeline
		Southern Railway Company begins operations on July 1 as the reorganization and consolidation of the Richmond & Danville, the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railroad and the Richmond & West Point Terminal Railway & Warehouse Company.
		It will emerge in 1896 as NW Railway, the name by which it will thereafter be known.
		Railway Age names Goode "Railroader of the Year" for 1997 "for forging the agreement that strengthens rail transportation in the East and levels the playing field between eastern and western railroads." National Industrial Transportation League names Goode Transportation Executive of the Year.
	www.nscorp.com /nscorphtml/heritage/timeline.html (4179 words)

	Railroads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		November 7, 1885 - Canada's transcontinental railway completed at a remote spot called Craigellachie in the mountains of British Columbia; Canadian Pacific laid 4,600 kilometers of single track, railway was completed six years ahead of schedule; first train from Montreal to Vancouver averaged 24mph.
		The Skyline Limited: The Kaslo and Slocan Railway: An Illustrated History of Narrow Gauge Railroading and Sternwheelers in the Kootenays.
		LMS 150: The London Midland and Scottish Railway: A Century and a Half of Progress.
	www.kipnotes.com /Railroads.htm (6646 words)

	(GCJ8Z2) Quincy Quarry 3 by SRD525
		In 1985, the Metropolitan District Commission purchased 22 acres including Granite Railway Quarry, adjacent to the Blue Hills Reservation.
		Here too the Granite Railway was established in 1826.
		A pioneer in the American railroad industry, Gridley Bryant, engineered its design and construction and many of his inventions are still in use today.
	www.geocaching.com /seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GCJ8Z2 (396 words)

	History of the Railways of Massachusetts
		Appleton was a member of the Massachusetts Railway Commission during the pioneer years of railroading and this account was written by him for publication in Walling's Atlas of Massachusetts for 1871.
		The first railway charter granted in Massachusetts, was that of the Granite Railway Company, March 4th, 1826.
		This company was chartered for the purposes of transporting granite from the quarries in Quincy to tidewater in Neponset River.
	www.catskillarchive.com /rrextra/abnere1.Html (4529 words)

	Lesson Plan Number 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The student will be able to determine the location of the Granite Railway on various maps which range from general to very detailed.
		The student will be able to determine the location of the granite quarries in relation to the Granite Railway.
		Present locator map of Granite Railway on overhead...determine approximate location of Quarry Section.
	www.bluehills.org /ABE/lesson_plan_number_1.htm (165 words)

	Today in Railroad History
		March 4, 1826: The Granite Railway is chartered.
		The railroad was key in helping to transport granite blocks to erect a Bunker Hill monument.
		July 25, 1832: A wagon with passenger Thomas B. Achuas of Cuba derails on the Granite Railway killing him.
	railfanning.org /history/today.htm (1322 words)

	Favorite Places
		This area is the birthplace of both large-scale granite quarrying and the first commercial railroad in America, built in 1826.
		Has hiking, rock climbing, picnicking, and bird watching.15min rim trail, Little Granite Railway Quarry is a marked hike.
		It is designed by Alexander Parris and is constructed of Quincy granite.
	www.southshorechamber.org /visitor_info/favorites.htm (394 words)

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