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The Romance of the Road Billed in the 1930s as “the Main Street of America” and “the Trading Crossroads of the Nation,” Kansas was prime for transcontinental crossing, both east-west and north-south. With about 150 miles of paved road in the nation, his trip was a challenge of getting lost, breaking down, running out of gas, and encountering rain, wind, and blowing sand. By 1925, there were 250 named highways in the nation and the federal government had instituted a numbering system. www2.kumc.edu /coa/Senior_Press_Article/KSPS-JustForFun/RomanceRoad.htm   (1009 words)

Canadian National Railway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Another Canadian railway, National Transcontinental Railway, encountered financial difficulty on March 7, 1919 when the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway's (GTPR) parent company Grand Trunk Railway (GTR), defaulted on repayment of construction loans to the federal government. The Canadian National Railway (CN; AAR reporting marks CN, CNA, CNIS), known as Canadian National Railways (CNR) between 1918 and 1960, and Canadian National/Canadien National (CN) from 1960 to present, is a Canadian Class I railway operated by Canadian National Railway Company. Canadian National Railways was created between 1918 and 1923, comprising several railways that had become bankrupt and fallen into federal government hands, along with some railways already owned by the government. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canadian_National_Railway   (3982 words)

Railways The construction of a railway to the Pacific Ocean was condition for the entry of British Columbia into the new nation of Canada. After a false start in 1873, which ended in the Pacific Scandal and resignation of the government, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) was finally built between 1881 and 1885. The construction of the Intercolonial Railway, to connect the original partners of Confederation, was a condition of union written into the new constitution. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=J1SEC625368   (327 words)

THE REMAKING OF NATIONAL POLICY: RUSSIA AND THE UNITED STATES: 1900--1940. Between 1900 and 1940, transcontinental nation states, having emerged in the Railway Epoch, adjusted massively to the advent of the internal combustion engine and the electric dynamo. Following the Depression and the Second World War, the centralist tendencies of transcontinental national policies in all three countries was eroded by yet another round of technological and institutional change. National policies of development that had made sense in the late nineteenth century were replaced. www.upei.ca /~rneill/canechist/topic_20.html   (4732 words)

confed It was not until the heavy influx of population associated with the settling of the prairies that immigration became an important cause of population growth in the new nation of Canada. The remaining component of the national policy as the term is broadly construed was the policy of protecting Canadian manufacturers from foreign competition in the domestic market. In any event they were all eventually brought under public ownership and in became incorporated into the publicly-owned Canadian National Railways organization. www.chass.utoronto.ca /~reak/ssc/confed.htm   (3412 words)

Georgia Institute of Technology :: News Room :: National LambdaRail Network Now Complete National LambdaRail is a major initiative of U.S. research universities and private sector technology companies to provide a national scale infrastructure for research and experimentation in networking technologies and applications. One of the other lanes on the NLR “highway,” called the National Exchange Fabric, is shared and available now to Georgia Tech researchers at no charge for demonstration projects to the connected universities and research institutions. Because of the close and ongoing coordination among member organizations, SLR is able to provide researchers a unique level of assistance and facilitation in provisioning and maintaining these services,” says John Mullin, Georgia Tech’s chief information officer and associate vice president and associate vice provost for information technology. www.gatech.edu /news-room/release.php?id=885   (736 words)

Pacific Railway Act: Primary Documents of American History (Virtual Programs & Services, Library of Congress) Congress and the American West: The Transcontinental Railroad, National Archives and Records Administration For example, an article from 1867 published in The Galaxy examines the construction of the transcontinental railroad, while a Scribner's Magazine article from 1892 looks back at the history of the transcontinental railroad. This act provided Federal government support for the building of the first transcontinental railroad, which was completed on May 10, 1869. www.loc.gov /rr/program/bib/ourdocs/PacificRail.html   (602 words)

Alphabetical list for Statutes beginning with N: National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy Act -- 1993, c. National Research Council Act -- R.S., 1985, c. National Symbol of Canada Act -- R.S., 1985, c. laws.justice.gc.ca /en/publaw/N.html   (504 words)

LECTURE 6 Delayed by political scandals which brought down the Macdonald government in 1873, parts of the transcontinental line were built by the federal government in the later years of the decade before Macdonald regained office and made a contract with the Canadian Pacific Railway Company to complete the railway. This (perhaps entirely imagined) grand design has come to be called the "national policy" (note absence of caps). The significance of this lies in the transfer of control over the vast areas of public lands the federal government of Canada had control over when the new nation was formed to the control of provincial governments. www.chass.utoronto.ca /~echist/lecnotes/lec6.htm   (2740 words)

The National Old Trails Road - Part 1: The Quest for a National Road Section 5 of 7 The suggestion of great national transcontinental roads appeals to my imagination, as does the suggestion of interstate roads connecting capitals or cities of commercial importance to my logical faculty and to the sense of pleasure that I experience in riding about the country in my friends' automobiles. The wealth that is centered in the great, glittering metropolis of this wealthy nation of ours, was not produced upon the barren streets and squares of the metropolis; it came from the rural sections, and the more of it that comes from the rural sections, the greater will New York be. Therefore, he said, legislation declaring it a "national highway" was not necessary in view of the prior legislation declaring it as such. www.fhwa.dot.gov /infrastructure/trailsd.htm   (6593 words)

The Twenty-Five Point Program of the N.S.D.A.P. - Stormfront White Nationalist Community We demand the union of all Aryans within the world into a greater transcontinental National-Socialist Empire on the basis of the principle of self-determination of all peoples. The State has the duty to help raise the standard of national health by providing maternity welfare centers, by prohibiting juvenile labor, by increasing physical fitness through the introduction of compulsory games and gymnastics, and by the greatest possible encouragement of associations concerned with the physical education of the young. We demand an agrarian reform in accordance with our national requirements, and the enactment of a law to expropriate the owners without compensation of any land needed for the common purpose. www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=123900   (1894 words)

First American - Press Releases TransContinental will continue to operate under its current name and management structure, working in conjunction with First American’s National Lenders Advantage unit, the company’s existing high-volume, centralized title processing arm formed in 1993 to address the needs of mortgage originators. TransContinental Title Company is a comprehensive, nationwide outsourced provider of title and loan closing services to national and regional lending institutions. Established in 1987, TransContinental Title is a licensed title insurer in 38 states and has the ability to handle transactions nationwide through its affiliation with First American. www.firstam.com /faf/news/newsdisplay.cfm?id=1336   (644 words)

Books: Atlas Shrugged The main character, Dagny Taggart, is the driving force behind the most important railroad of the country, Taggart Transcontinental. The United States are a strong industrial nation that is crumbling to pieces, following the path of most other countries in the globe. We follow her struggle against everything that tries to take her railroad, and the country as a whole, apart: mindless bureaucrats, corrupt politicians, intellectuals with not a shred of intellect, brainwashed workers. www.netwhatever.com /weblog/books/archives/000517.html   (334 words)

From Ocean to Ocean, The Transcontinental Railroad -- Objectivist Center -- Reason, Individualism, Achievement, and Freedom In its own way, the transcontinental railroad was a "giant leap for mankind," spanning with a permanent bridge a chasm nearly as inhospitable as sublunary space. A transcontinental telegraph line had been completed in 1861, replacing the Pony Express, but more than a wire was needed if the West was to develop. The nation wanted a railroad to encourage the settlement of its new lands west of the Missouri River, to tap the resources of the Far West, and to be able to quickly deploy military forces to protect the settlers and the expanding country. www.ios.org /navigator/articles/nav+fbryan_ocean-ocean.asp   (2691 words)

Today in History: May 10 This spike symbolized completion of the first transcontinental railroad, an event which joined the nation from coast to coast and reduced a journey of four or more months to just one week. It is a measure of their engineering skills that in the twenty-first century the well traveled east-west motor highway, Interstate 80, follows (often within eyesight) the path charted in the 1860s by engineers of the first transcontinental railway. A number of U.S. Congressmen owned stock in The Crédit Mobilier of America, agent for the construction of the Union Pacific Railway's portion of the transcontinental line. memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/may10.html   (2111 words)

Today in History: May 10 This spike symbolized completion of the first transcontinental railroad, an event which joined the nation from coast to coast and reduced a journey of four or more months to just one week. It is a measure of their engineering skills that in the twenty-first century the well traveled east-west motor highway, Interstate 80, follows (often within eyesight) the path charted in the 1860s by engineers of the first transcontinental railway. 1869: The Union Pacific& Central Pacific met at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory, to celebrate completion of the first transcontinental railway and drive in a Golden Spike. lcweb2.loc.gov /ammem/today/may10.html   (2111 words)

History of the Transcontinental Railroad The first convention for the planning of the Pacific Railroad (as this first transcontinental railroad was called) was held in 1838 by John Plumbe. The history of this great railroad goes back to the time when the first steam locomotives were moving on the first tracks in the nation. The work of the railroad men cannot be fully appreciated without first understanding the history behind the building of the first Transcontinental Railroad. bushong.net /dawn/about/college/ids100/history.shtml   (1297 words)

LewHistMedical1.html And, until the transcontinental railroad linked the West to the rest of the nation, this potentially life-saving knowledge was not even available to the early settlers. Lister's antiseptic measures, the Koch and Pasteur germ theory, Jenner's vaccination as a deterrent to smallpox, and other medical innovations surfacing during the nineteenth century were not immediately accepted, even by the medical profession of the time. In practice, professional doctoring during the early half of the nineteenth century had as its goal balancing the ancient "four humors" of the body, and if it took catastrophic purging and bleeding to do it, doctors were not going to be remiss in their duties--particularly, America's Dr. Rush. www.lewiston-ut.org /Lewiston%20History/LewHistMedical1.html   (1918 words)

MSN Encarta - Canadian Pacific Railway Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), Canada’s first transcontinental railway and the instrument that enabled the nation of Canada to expand across North... Become a subscriber today and gain access to: encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761588436/Canadian_Pacific_Railway.html   (75 words)

Australia opens new transcontinental railway - 2004-01-15 The 1,740-mile Adelaide-Darwin Railway has opened, linking the southeastern part of Australia, where most of the nation's population is, with a northern port that can take shipments from East Asian cities. The $1 billion project (1.3 billion Australian dollars) extends an existing railway that was built north with the same intentions but stopped in mid-continent. It has taken three quarters of a century to add the remaining 900 miles to Darwin. www.bizjournals.com /pacific/stories/2004/01/12/daily53.html   (485 words)

America on the Move The first transcontinental railroad is completed The first transcontinental railroad link was almost instantly celebrated around the nation because a telegraph wire was connected to the last rail spiked. This famous photo was taken moments after the completion of North America’s first transcontinental rail line. In six years, more than 20,000 workers—including many Chinese men, who were left out of this picture, Irish, and others—had laid down some 1,700 miles of track in the largest American civil-works project to that time. americanhistory.si.edu /ONTHEMOVE/collection/object_370.html   (202 words)

The American Experience/The Iron Road/About the Program Even before the Civil War, the nation had been divided. The real heroes of the railroad, however, were the 20,000 men who labored to build the iron road with their bare hands. Many believed that a railroad to the Pacific would be the key to westward expansion and the future of the country. www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/iron   (636 words)

Utah History Encyclopedia On 10 May 1869 from Promontory Summit northwest of Ogden, Utah, a single telegraphed word, "done," signaled to the nation the completion of the first transcontinental railroad. The event of the completing of the transcontinental railroad, which some historians had compared in significance to the Declaration of Independence, seemed to fade from public consciousness. Railroad crews of the Union Pacific, 8,000 to 10,000 Irish, German, and Italian immigrants, had pushed west from Omaha, Nebraska. www.media.utah.edu /UHE/g/GOLDENSPIKE.html   (942 words)

Western Union Telegraph Company. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 Originally known as the New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company, Western Union built the nation’s first transcontinental telegraph line in 1861. Another part of the original company, Western Union Financial Services, became a subsidiary of First Data Corp. in 1995 and now specializes in electronic money transfers, electronic mail and fax services, and telegrams (delivered via the World Wide Web); by the late 1990s there were 78,000 Western Union locations in 172 countries. Western Union’s telegraph business grew rapidly, and by 1943, after acquiring Postal Telegraph and some 500 other competitors, it was easily the largest company in its field. www.bartleby.com /65/we/WesternU.html   (262 words)

America on the Move The first transcontinental railroad is completed The first transcontinental railroad link was almost instantly celebrated around the nation because a telegraph wire was connected to the last rail spiked. This famous photo was taken moments after the completion of North America’s first transcontinental rail line. In six years, more than 20,000 workers—including many Chinese men, who were left out of this picture, Irish, and others—had laid down some 1,700 miles of track in the largest American civil-works project to that time. b.cfmx.si.edu /onthemove/collection/object_370.html   (262 words)

Transcontinental, Railroad, Golden Spike, Promontory Summit, Railway Act The striking of the golden spike at Promontory Summit symbolized the nation was now joined with 3500 miles of Transcontinental Railroad. As early as 1832 the nation had realized a need to tie California to the rest of the states through the means of a transcontinental railroad system. The golden spike was driven in the last tie plat to commemorate the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad at Promontory Summit as the completed first Transcontinental Railroad as directed by the Pacific Railway Act www.linecamp.com /museums/americanwest/western_clubs/transcontinental_railroad/transcontinental_railroad.html   (262 words)

Nebraska National Trails Museum - Introduction From the earliest Indians to the movement of pioneers and settlement of ranches, to the transcontinental interstate highway crossing its borders, Keith County has been part of the nation's heartbeat. Here the unique and special history of Keith County is reflective of the nation's, and here the Nebraska National Trails Museum will recapture and preserve that history, that experience, and that uniquely American Spirit. he Nebraska National Trails Museum will give America and the world the opportunity to live again the pioneer life experienced by all who traveled the trails across the times of this nation, marking the westward settlement and the development of the United States. www.megavision.net /nntm/intro.html   (417 words)

Trails of Hope: California Trail Two decades after the great California gold rush began, the railroad was finally completed.  The monumental engineering feat of the transcontinental railroad completed a process that the California Trail and other western trails began -- the integration of the west into the American nation. The California Trail ended with the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869, but its impact continued long after wagon travel ceased.  The late historian John D. Unruh, Jr. Holiday, ed., The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience, An Eyewitness Account of a Nation Heading West (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981), 446. overlandtrails.lib.byu.edu /ctrail.htm   (2252 words)

Exhibits dot old Lincoln Highway - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Lincoln Highway exhibits in Westmoreland and Somerset counties are part of a longer chain of exhibits celebrating the nation's first transcontinental highway, which got its start in 1912. For long stretches the Lincoln Highway, the nation's first transcontinental route, is a four-lane slab of asphalt known as U.S. Route 30. These are the road's "braided" portions, a phrase coined by Olga Herbert, executive director of the Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor, the Ligonier-based nonprofit whose goal is to promote the nearly 100-year-old highway for purposes of tourism. www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/trib/history/s_380715.html   (844 words)

24 Oct History: This Date Workers of the Western Union Telegraph Company link the eastern and western telegraph networks of the nation at Salt Lake City, Utah, completing a transcontinental line that for the first time allows instantaneous communication between Washington, D.C., and San Francisco. Stephen J. Field, chief justice of California, sent the first transcontinental telegram to President Abraham Lincoln, predicting that the new communication link would help ensure the loyalty of the western states to the Union during the Civil War. The push to create a transcontinental telegraph line had begun only a little more than year before when Congress authorized a subsidy of $40,000 a year to any company building a telegraph line that would join the eastern and western networks. h42day.100megsfree5.com /history/h4oct/h4oct24.html   (8438 words)

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