In Europe, particularly Britain and Ireland, and then in the young United States and the Canadian colonies, inland canals preceded the development of railroads ( 1780-1840 ) during the earliest phase of the Industrial Revolution.

These products have a wide range of applications and are currently used in many civil and geotechnical engineering applications including: roads, airfields, railroads, embankments, piled embankments, retaining structures, reservoirs, canals, dams, landfills, bank protection and coastal engineering.

" The railroads, public utilities, canals, and forests should be nationalized, and all income from the land and mines should be in the hands of the State.

The saturation of major markets, such as agriculture during the transportation revolution, or infrastructures ( canals, railroads ) creates an economic stagnation.

Past speculative excesses included canals, railroads, farm land, real estate and the broader stock market.

As new areas were explored, it was usually the gold ( placer and then load ) and then silver that were taken first, with other metals often waiting for railroads or canals.

In the 1840s, two decades after the Monroe Doctrine declared U. S. intentions to be the dominant anti-European imperial power in the Western Hemisphere, North American and French interests became excited about the prospects of constructing railroads and / or canals through Central America to quicken trans-oceanic travel.

In the last half of the 19th century, railroads slowly began to replace canals as the major form of transportation.

Because of this, Detroit was less suited to new transportation projects such as canals, and later railroads, than was Toledo.

Pell first used the property as a summer retreat, but the completion of railroads and canals connecting the area to New York City brought tourists to the area, so he converted his summer house, known as The Pavilion, into a hotel to serve the tourist trade.

The demise of this early toll road era was due to the rise of canals and railroads, which were more efficient ( and thus cheaper ) in moving freight over long distances.

New York City soon surpassed Philadelphia in population but, with the construction of roads, canals, and railroads, Philadelphia became the first major industrial city in the United States.

The province has a network of roads, railroads, canals and rivers which provide a modern infrastructure.

The availability of cheap labor, new roads, canals, tramways and railroads such as the Iron Rhine, stimulated the settlement of new industry.

Mass production improved productivity, which was a contributing factor to economic growth and the decline in work week hours, alongside other factors such as transportation infrastructures ( canals, railroads and highways ) and agricultural mechanization.

But the development of railroads, which were faster, cheaper, and operated even when the canals were frozen, brought the end of the canal era.

When railroads were constructed starting in the 1850s, they in turn began to render the canals obsolete and allowed trade to reach towns that lacked water connections.

The turnpike lasted for 99 years, fighting with railroads, canals and stagecoaches to stay in business.

Lathrop was a civil engineer with a long history of working with canals and railroads in New York ; he would soon return to Buffalo.

In 1827, Seth Leavenworth pushed the state legislature to establish a rail link between his town and the new state capitol ( only recently relocated to Indianapolis from nearby Corydon ), believing that railroads were more efficient and desirable than canals ( though trains at this time moved not much faster than barges.

Bypassed by colonial turnpikes, revolution era canals, and railroads laid in the Victorian era, the area remained a rural backwater.

Development of the railroads in the 1850s and 1860s put the canals out of business and slowed the city's initially rapid growth.

Watsontown was an important part of a transportation network that included roads, railroads, and canals along the Susquehanna River.

In 1848, the New York and Erie Railroad was built through the area ; although the canal continued to operate for another fifty years, railroads eventually made canals obsolete.

If the railroads, for example, regularly slaughtered 25,000 passengers each year, the high priests of the cult would have cause to tremble for their personal safety, for such a holocaust would excite demands for the hanging of every railroad president in the United States.

Mr. Speaker, for several years now the commuter railroads serving our large metropolitan areas have found it increasingly difficult to render the kind of service our expanding population wants and is entitled to have.

At this time of crisis in our Nation's commuter railroads, a new threat to the continued operations of the New York Central has appeared in the form of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad's proposal for control of the Baltimore & Ohio railroads.

The railroads have responded by adding 20,000 more box cars with doors 12' or wider for forklift unloading ( a 21% increase while the total number of box cars was falling 6% ) and by cutting their freight rates twice on lumber shipped in heavily loaded cars.

for example, the organization of steamship conferences to set freight rates and the encouragement of railroads to seek mergers.

It is said one industrial designer for one of New York City's commuter railroads, Metro-North, told people: " I designed the aisle seat with a half-back and no upholstery, so it will be very uncomfortable to sit there.

Much of the city, including railroads and stockyards, survived intact, and from the ruins of the previous wooden structures arose more modern constructions of steel and stone which would set the precedent for worldwide construction.

3 of the 1862 Act granted the railroads of public land for every mile laid, except where railroads ran through cities and crossed rivers.

Waldo Becker encouraged new railroads for the city.

* Justo Rufino Barrios Monument ( Monument of one of Guatemala's much acclaimed past President, responsible for the introduction of the railroads among other services to the country.

Lamar charged that the rights of way for this land must be returned to the public because the railroads failed to extend their lines according to agreements.

The banana companies acquired most of their landholdings in the early 20th century in return for building the railroads used to transport bananas from the interior to the coast.

As their membership declined, they stopped manufacturing operations, other than what they needed for themselves, and began to invest in other ventures such as the oil business, coal mining, timber, railroads, land development, and banking.

The government built railroads, improved roads, and inaugurated a land reform program to prepare the country for further development.

The government also built railroads, improved road, and inaugurated a land reform program to prepare the country for further development.

In another decision, Landis struck down a challenge to the Interstate Commerce Commission's ( ICC ) jurisdiction over rebating, a practice banned by the Elkins Act of 1903 in which railroads and favored customers agreed that the customers would pay less than the posted tariff, which by law was to be the same for all shippers.

Prior to locomotives, the motive force for railroads had been generated by various lower-technology methods such as human power, horse power, gravity or stationary engines that drove cable systems.

Aided by railroads, many traveled West for work opportunities in mining.