The railroad connected Lower Manhattan via the South Ferry to Greenport on the North Fork of Long Island, where a ferry connected to Stonington, Connecticut to a rail link that continued to Boston.

A large log being placed on a railroad car at Batottan, British North Borneo in 1926

The coming of the railroad to North Cambridge and Northwest Cambridge then led to three major changes in the city: the development of massive brickyards and brickworks between Massachusetts Ave., Concord Ave. and Alewife Brook ; the ice-cutting industry launched by Frederic Tudor on Fresh Pond ; and the carving up of the last estates into residential subdivisions to provide housing to the thousands of immigrants that arrived to work in the new industries.

* North Cambridge ( Area 11 ) is bordered on the north by the Arlington and Somerville borders, on the south by railroad tracks, on the west by the Belmont border, and on the east by the Somerville border.

The square dome-like segment of a North American railroad train caboose is also called a cupola.

The Central Pacific Railroad ( CPRR ) is the former name of the railroad network built between California and Utah, USA that formed part of the " First Transcontinental Railroad " in North America.

By the end of the 20th century, almost the only steam power still in regular use in North America and Western European countries was on heritage railways largely aimed at tourists and / or railroad hobbyists, known as ' railfans ' or ' railway enthusiasts ', although some narrow gauge lines in Germany which form part of the public transport system, running to all-year-round timetables retain steam for all or part of their motive power.

* January 2 – Webb C. Ball introduces railroad chronometers, which become the general railroad timepiece standards in North America.

* The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates the railroad town of Goldsborough, and the Wayne county seat is moved to the new town.

* July 21 – The Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad opens between St. John and La Prairie, Quebec, the first steam-worked passenger railroad in British North America.

It is the second busiest commuter railroad in North America ( only recently surpassed by its sister railroad, Metro-North ), serving about 81 million passengers each year.

Thousands of communities in the northern plains states ( such as Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota ) became railroad ghost towns when a rail line failed to materialize.

At its height, around 1890, the D & RG had the largest operating narrow gauge railroad network in North America.

In 1964, an inside-the-Capital-Beltway extension of Interstate 70S, also known as the North Central Freeway, was proposed via a route known as " Option # 11 Railroad Sligo East ," up to 1 / 4 mile parallel to the B & O railroad upon a swath of land displacing 471 houses, that would have cut the city in two.

Its first trip carried 600 containers between North Vancouver, British Columbia and Skagway, Alaska, on November 26, 1955 ; in Skagway, the containers were unloaded to purpose-built railroad cars for transport north to the Yukon, in the first intermodal service using trucks, ships and railroad cars.

A deep national economic depression following the Panic of 1873 led to major Democratic gains in the North, the collapse of many railroad schemes in the South, and a growing sense of frustration in the North.

The first rail road built in North Italy was the Milan and Monza railroad opened for service on August 17, 1840.

North Platte is a railroad town ; Union Pacific Railroad's large Bailey Yard is located within the city.

After crossing under the railroad line, the road intersects North Avenue, which heads west as County Route 610 and east as Route 28.

The city's first major industry was born in 1899 when Henry W. Hibbs, 1862 – 1942, a native of Newport, North Carolina, established his wholesale fish business at the end of the railroad pier, which extended out to the shipping channel.

Between 1902 and 1912 four large office buildings were constructed at the intersection of 20th Street, the central north – south spine of the city, and 1st Avenue North, which connected the warehouses and industrial facilities stretching along the east – west railroad corridor.

Recently though there has been a push from the city, and increasingly from government, to establish a light rail network, intended to be fast, efficient, and eco-friendly, along existing tracks in a North South corridor ; to help relieve the frequent jamming of traffic in Hobart CBD.

In Europe and North America, karaoke tracks are almost never done by the original artist, but are re-recorded by other musicians.

Several stations have been rebuilt to deal with overcrowding: Clapham Common and Clapham North on the Northern line are the last remaining stations with a single narrow platform with tracks on both sides.

Several major Māori tracks were known, such as the western coastal track was used along the whole length of the North Island, and the track on the East Coast, which however left the coast near Castlepoint and rejoined it near Napier.

Polar bears are believed rarely to travel beyond about 82 ° North owing to the scarcity of food, though tracks have been seen in the vicinity of the North Pole, and a 2006 expedition reported sighting a polar bear just from the Pole.

The V8 Hot Stox race on tracks in the North of England as well as the Midlands, where as the Spedeworth cars mainly race in the South East ofEngland as well as in East Anglia.

1500 ) Scottish words for the type of truck used in coal mines and the tracks on which they ran, probably derived from Middle Flemish tram " beam, handle of a barrow, bar, rung ", a North Sea Germanic word of unknown origin meaning the beam or shaft of a barrow or sledge, also the barrow itself.

Competitions in North America were also held indoors, for example in Madison Square Garden, New York, and therefore on shorter tracks than usual for outdoor skating.

North La Veta Pass, through the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, is used by US Highway 160 and by the San Luis and Rio Grande Railroad ( formerly a branch of the Denver & Rio Grande Western ) tracks.

* 1968-Biggest Hits ( re-recordings plus new tracks ) ( Sonet 9945 ); issued in England as Rock Around the Clock ( Hallmark SHM 668 ) and in North America as Rockin ' ( Pickwick SPC 3256 )

The typical cost of owning a race horse in training for one year is in the order of £ 15, 000 in the United Kingdom and as much as $ 35, 000 at major race tracks in North America.

:* " two additional GWR tracks from North Acton to West Ruislip, for Central line use ;

: For the western extension, a new pair of tracks for the Central line from North Acton to Greenford opened in 1947, with West Ruislip following in 1948.

The Ampex reel-to-reel tape version of The Beatles, released in 1970 after Capitol / EMI ceased manufacturing of pre-recorded reel tapes in North America, featured eight tracks in edited form: " Dear Prudence ", " Glass Onion ", " Don't Pass Me By ", " Why Don't We Do It In The Road ?".

A storm surge generated by low pressure in the Atlantic Ocean sometimes tracks eastwards past the north of Scotland and may then be driven into the shallow waters of the North Sea.

The North Wilkesboro Speedway was closed following the 1996 NASCAR season after two new owners, Bob Bahre and Bruton Smith, moved North Wilkesboro's NASCAR races to their tracks in Texas and New Hampshire.

By 1875, the North Pacific Coast Railroad set its tracks through Corte Madera, allowing flatcars to haul lumber, and later, passenger trains to service commuters to and from San Francisco, aided in its early stages by the Sausalito ferry.

The Chicago and Milwaukee Railroad tracks were built in 1854, facilitating the settlement of what would become the North Shore.

He persuaded the Chicago & North Western Railroad to extend its tracks from East Dundee to the area and built an iron bridge with his own funds to accommodate the rail line.

According to the Horseplayers Association of North America ( HANA ), Ellis Park ranked 6th of 65 Thoroughbred racetracks, behind Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, as the best wagering opportunity among racing tracks in North America.

In 1957, Chevrolet built a parts plant on the North side of Miller Road West of the rail tracks, also referred to as Otterburn.