The Chinese came to California in large numbers during the California Gold Rush, with 40, 400 being recorded as arriving from 1851 – 1860, and again in the 1860s when the Central Pacific Railroad recruited large labor gangs, many on five year contracts, to build its portion of the Transcontinental Railroad.

One of Bechtel's earliest major contracts was grading the site of the Oroville, CA depot for the Western Pacific Railroad, then under construction.

One of Bechtel's earliest major contracts was grading the site of the Oroville, California depot for the Western Pacific Railroad, then under construction.

From there they gained contracts to port many other titles, such as Myth II: Soulblighter, Railroad Tycoon II, and Eric's Ultimate Solitaire.

TriMet runs the MAX Light Rail ( short for Metropolitan Area Express ) system, and contracts with Portland and Western Railroad to operate the Westside Express Service ( WES ) commuter rail line.

In that same year, the State Railroad Administration was established by Executive Order of the Governor, to oversee these railroad contracts, to procure the needed rolling stock, to apply for and manage federal funding for the commuter rail service, and to administer a state funded subsidy program for shortline freight rail operations, primarily on the Eastern Shore and in Western Maryland.

The Van Noy Railroad News Company grew rapidly after securing large contracts with Missouri Pacific Railway and its subsidiary, the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway.

* January 1-The United States government contracts with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to carry mail ; the B & O is the first railroad to be awarded such a contract in the U. S.

The Sellers thread, easier for ordinary machinists to produce, became an important standard in the U. S. during the late 1860s and early 1870s, when it was chosen as a standard for work done under U. S. government contracts, and it was also adopted as a standard by highly influential railroad industry corporations such as the Baldwin Locomotive Works and the Pennsylvania Railroad.

In Inside Africa, John Gunther describes one of these, the Societe Generale, as `` the kind of colossus that might be envisaged if, let us say, the House of Morgan, Anaconda Copper, the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and various companies producing agricultural products were lumped together, with the United States government as a heavy partner ''.

The city has served as the capital of Nevada since statehood in 1864 and for much of its history was a hub for the Virginia and Truckee Railroad, although the tracks were removed in the 1950s.

Other cable cars to use grips were those of the Clay Street Hill Railroad, which later became part of the San Francisco cable car system.

The western labor teams were primarily made up of Chinese emigrant workers with up to 12, 000 such laborers employed by the Central Pacific Railroad representing 90 percent of the entire work force.

The ancient city of Harappa was greatly destroyed under the British Raj, when bricks from the ruins were used as track ballast in the making of the Lahore-Multan Railroad.

Irish newcomers were sometimes uneducated and often found themselves competing with Americans for manual labour jobs or, in the 1860s, being recruited from the docks by the U. S. Army to serve in the American Civil War and afterward to build the Union Pacific Railroad.

Railroad interests were especially eager to start operations since they needed farmers as customers.

Railroad proposals were debated in all subsequent sessions of Congress with cities such as Chicago, St. Louis, Quincy, Memphis and New Orleans competing to be the jumping-off point for the construction.

Railroad handcars were also used.

The Wesleyan Methodist Connexion ( later became The Wesleyan Church ) and the Free Methodist Churches were formed by staunch abolitionists, and the Free Methodists were especially active in the Underground Railroad, which helped to free the slaves.

There were 1, 400 km of narrow-gauge track, owned by either the Manila Railroad Company ( based in Luzon ) or the Philippine Railway Company ( an American company based in Panay and Cebu ).

The problem lay in that Allan and Sir John A. Macdonald highly, and secretly, were in cahoots with American financiers such as George W. McMullen and Jay Cooke, men who were deeply interested in the rival American undertaking, the Northern Pacific Railroad.

In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad,, the Supreme Court ruled that ( 1 ) the Sixteenth Amendment removes the Pollock requirement that certain income taxes ( such as taxes on income " derived from real property " that were the subject of the Pollock decision ), be apportioned among the states according to population ; ( 2 ) the federal income tax statute does not violate the Fifth Amendment's prohibition against the government taking property without due process of law ; ( 3 ) the federal income tax statute does not violate the Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 requirement that excises, also known as indirect taxes, be imposed with geographical uniformity.

The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause.

Even at the height of the Underground Railroad, fewer than 1, 000 slaves from all slave-holding states were able to escape each year ( just over 5, 000 court cases for escaped slaves recorded ), a quantity much smaller than the natural annual increase of the enslaved population.

* Financial benefactors of the Railroad were known as " stockholders ".

Each were eventually to make millions of dollars from their continuing investments and control of the Central Pacific Railroad ( CPRR ).

Railroad boxcars, called " side door coaches " by the hobos, were frequently plastered with silent agitators from the IWW.

A New York Times investigation in 2008 showed that more than 90 % of Long Island Rail Road employees who had retired since 2000 were receiving disability payments from the federal Railroad Retirement Board, collectively totalling more than $ 250, 000, 000 over 8 years.

After the First Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869 all the telegraph lines usually followed the railroad tracks as the required relay stations and telegraph lines were much easier to maintain alongside the tracks.

The winners of that truce were Hill and Morgan, who immediately formed the Northern Securities Company with the aim of tying together their three major rail lines ( Ironically, the Burlington Route, Northern Pacific, and Great Northern would later merge in 1970 to form the Burlington Northern Railroad ).

* The rails of the " First Transcontinental Railroad " were joined on May 10, 1869, with the ceremonial driving of the " Last Spike " at Promontory Summit, Utah, after track was laid over a gap between Sacramento and Omaha, Nebraska / Council Bluffs, Iowa in six years by the Union Pacific Railroad and Central Pacific Railroad.

The town subsequently gave its name to the famous Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad.

Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made more than thirteen missions to rescue more than 70 slaves using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad.

This year also saw construction of the first railway line linking Columbia and Philadelphia, which subsequently became part of the Pennsylvania Railroad.

The SJVRR was unable to generate sufficient revenues to pay its debt, was leased to the Southern Pacific Railroad and subsequently bought by SPRR in 1893.

In 1854 the Central of Georgia Railway and the Georgia Railroad connected at 79 ; subsequently the town became known as Millen's Junction after McPherson B. Millen, the superintendent of the Central of Georgia Railway.

The Leavenworth, Pawnee, and Western Railroad Company subsequently bought all of the remaining land on January 7, 1886.

The settlement saw some growth, but when the Chicago, Saginaw and Canada Railroad ( which became part of the Pere Marquette Railway and then the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway ) was built and a station was established nearer to the Flat River, Sumner subsequently sold his holdings and moved to Edmore.

The Erie Railroad and subsequently the Erie-Lackawanna Railway ran through Spencerville until abandoned in 1976 by the Conrail merger in favor of a parallel former Penn Central line running through Lima.

Piqua's Shawnee Native American history became the namesake for the community of Shawnee, founded in 1797 which is bordered on the east side of the river adjacent to downtown and the former Pennsylvania Railroad corridor later used by the merged Penn Central Transportation and subsequently by Conrail.

This water driven saw mill was subsequently washed away and rebuilt about 800 yards east of the present ( 1910 ) Pennsylvania Railroad Depot.

Robert Moody's grandson, Robert R. Young, also a native of Canadian, was subsequently the chief officer of the New York Central Railroad.

* BA & P EMD GP38-2 # 109, the BA & P locomotive used in the yard scenes as the lead-engine in place of ARR # 3010, was subsequently sold to the Alaska Railroad and remains in service there as # 2002, along with sister unit # 2001 ( ex-BA & P # 108 ).

Some of its provisions were subsequently modified, expanded, or repealed by four additional amending Acts: The Pacific Railroad Act of 1863 ( 12 Stat.

The Gettysburg Railroad Station telegraph was subsequently moved to Cemetery Hill.

On graduating, he took a position as structural engineer with the Erie Railroad and subsequently served as supervisor on the Croton Reservoir, acting as an assistant engineer on the Croton Aqueduct in New York City.

Since passage of the Railroad Retirement Acts of the 1930s, numerous other railroad laws have subsequently been enacted.

Congress subsequently enacted the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act in June 1938.

In 1899 or 1900, due to a regulatory climate in Virginia that was better suited to the company than that in other states, the ACL of Virginia took control of the other lines and subsequently shortened its name to the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company.

The last two, numbers 1205 and 1216, were sold for scrap in 1974 but subsequently rescued for use on the Delaware and Hudson Railroad.

The Worcester Line, historically part of the Boston & Albany Railroad ( B & A ), was merged into the New York Central System and its ownership subsequently passed to Penn Central in 1968.

* October 9-The Alaska Northern Railroad Company ( a predecessor of the Alaska Railroad ) purchases the assets of the bankrupt Alaska Central Railway and subsequently extends the line northward another.

The C & O Railroad was subsequently sold to Collis Potter Huntington.

Over 150 years after completion, much of the former Southside Railroad route remained in active use until 2005 when the corridor was abandoned and subsequently turned over to the Virginia DCR ( Dept of Conservation and Recreation ) for conversion to a rail trail linear park called High Bridge Trail State Park.