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The Seaboard Air Line Railroad 1875–1967
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The Seaboard Air Line Railroad 1875–1967
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Before the Civil War the predecessor route to the Seaboard Air Line shipped plantation cotton and tobacco to the port of Portsmouth. After the Stock Market Crash of 1873, the Seaboard’s proprietor, John M. Robinson acquired two further inland routes from Raleigh. Robinson’s successors, the Williams family, extended the network... More
The Southern Pacific Railraod 1869–1996
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The Southern Pacific Railraod 1869–1996
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The Southern Pacific, founded in California in 1865, was absorbed in 1868 by the ‘Big Four’ investors behind the Central Pacific Railroad between Sacramento and Ogden, Utah. Now flush with investment, track was acquired, or built, across the country, completing America’s second transcontinental route in 1883.The introduction of refrigerated rail-cars... More
The Southern Railway 1830–1982
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The Southern Railway 1830–1982
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The Southern Railway (SOU) consists of nearly 150 predecessor lines, the first of which was owned by the South Carolina and Rail Road Co., whose first passenger steam locomotive left Charleston, South Carolina, on Christmas Day, 1830. By 1833, the line extended 136 miles (219 km) southwards from Charleston and... More
The Underground Railroad 1790–1865
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The Underground Railroad 1790–1865
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The underground railroad is a figurative term used to refer to the escape route of African-American runaway slaves to the free North, Canada, Mexico and overseas between 1790 and 1865. The network of secret routes and safe houses, known as stopping stations, criss-crossed much of the US. The fugitives, identified... More
Union Pacific 1862–1961
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Union Pacific 1862–1961
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President Lincoln signed the Pacific Railroad Act (1862), which directed the Union Pacific (UP) and Central Pacific (CP) to build the US’s first transcontinental railroad. The railroad was to stretch from Missouri to the Pacific, described by a Boston paper as a ‘ruinous space’, both to encourage trade and settlement... More
US Railroad Monopolies
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US Railroad Monopolies
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By the turn of the 20th century, the American railroad network was largely controlled by a handful of tycoons. High monopolistic rail freight rates had been successfully challenged in the east by the Grange farmers’ movement, but the issue succeeded in capturing presidential attention in 1901, with a battle for... More
US Railroads 1840
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US Railroads 1840
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From the opening of the first few railroads in the east coast states at the beginning of the 1830s, America’s rail network began its rapid expansion westwards as technology and investment in railroad companies took off. At first the railroads were fiercely opposed by canal corporations, which conducted the bulk... More
US Railroads 1850
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US Railroads 1850
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The 1840s saw massive expansion of America’s railroad network and by 1850 the total length of railroads was triple that of just ten years earlier. By this point all of America’s eastern states, besides Florida, had stretches of railroad running through them and a number of large cities were supplied... More
US Railroads 1870
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US Railroads 1870
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The rail network played an important role in the American Civil War, which pitted the southern Confederation against the northern Union states between 1861–65. The Union states of the north held an advantage in the form of a larger and more extensive railroad network, along with the accompanying telegraph communications... More
US Railroads 1880
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US Railroads 1880
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Following the Civil War the United States government had begun a widespread effort to reconstruct the southern states and bring them more in line economically and socially with the north. This included a major effort to financially invest in the existing railroad network and to provide grants for the construction... More
US Railroads 1890
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US Railroads 1890
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The 1880s was the decade that saw the greatest total railroad mileage constructed in American history, however the majority of this expansion occurred outside the eastern states, which had previously been the railroad heartland. The prosperous economic climate of the 1880s provided the funding and incentives for railroad development into... More
US Railroads 1900
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US Railroads 1900
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Between 1890–1900 the rate of new railroad construction had dropped significantly from the peak of the early 1880s. The trend of network growth into the western states continued as their coverage began to catch up with the states of the east coast. The introduction of two major safety innovations, the... More