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Sketch of the Sacramento Valley Railroad ( 1852-1877 ) | Sacramento Valley RR as provided by its engineer, Theodore Judah.
Theodore Dehone Judah ( March 4, 1826 – November 2, 1863 ) was an American railroad engineer who dreamed of the first Transcontinental Railroad.
As the chief engineer of the Central Pacific Railroad, Judah surveyed the route over the Sierra Nevada along which the railroad was to be built during the 1860s.
Theodore Judah, architect of the Transcontinental Railroad and first chief engineer of the Central Pacific.
Judah was chief engineer for the newly formed Sacramento Valley Railroad in 1852, the first railroad built west of the Mississippi River.
After the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), William Mahone, a civil engineer and hero of the Battle of the Crater, was the driving force in the linkage of 3 railroads, including the V & T, across the southern tier of Virginia to form the Atlantic, Mississippi & Ohio Railroad ( AM & O ), a new line extending from Norfolk to Bristol, Virginia in 1870.
Frederick J. Kimball, a civil engineer and partner in the Clark firm, headed the new line and the new Shenandoah Valley Railroad.
In 1852, Oliver Barnes ( a civil engineer for the Pennsylvania Railroad ) laid out the plans for the community that was incorporated in 1854 as the Borough of Latrobe.
Barnes named the town for his best friend and college classmate, Benjamin Latrobe, who was a civil engineer for the B & O Railroad.
He was an American Civil War veteran who was a locomotive engineer for the Kansas Pacific Railway and its successor, the Union Pacific Railroad.
Beauregard's first employment following the war was in October 1865 as chief engineer and general superintendent of the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad.
The Louisville & Nashville Railroad sent an engineer named Pete Boyle to survey a route south from Birmingham to Montgomery, Alabama.
Sulligent was first called " Elliott " named in honor of the chief engineer of the Kansas City-Memphis-Birmingham Railroad, renamed one month later, “ Sulligent ”, in honor of Sullivan, the superintendent of the railroad, and in honor of Sargeant, the passenger agent of the railroad.
McClellan resigned his commission January 16, 1857, and, capitalizing on his experience with railroad assessment, became chief engineer and vice president of the Illinois Central Railroad and also president of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad in 1860.
Holbrook was founded in 1881 or 1882, when the railroad was built, and named to honor the first chief engineer of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad.
The community was then named Holbrook after the first engineer of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad.
Robinson was the chief engineer for the Little Rock-Fort Smith Railroad ( now the Union Pacific ).
The city is named in honor of Fred T. Perris, chief engineer of the California Southern Railroad.
It received a post office in 1881 under the name Osgood after California Southern Railroad chief engineer Joseph O. Osgood ; the renaming was supposedly an unsuccessful attempt to convince Osgood to build the railroad through the San Luis Rey River valley ( the rail line eventually followed the Santa Margarita River instead ).
Charles S. Noble, a Florida Central and Peninsula Railroad engineer, was asked to plat approximately forty acres of land north of present day State Road 60, South of Lake Meade, east of Kings Avenue, and west to Parsons Avenue.
It was named as " Lutz Station " by William Paul Lutz, an engineer on the Tampa Northern Railroad.
Octave Chanute was a civil engineer employed by the new Peoria and Oquawka Railroad, which is now the Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad.
The land on which Towanda stands was first entered by Charles Badeau who had graduated from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, in 1840, and was employed as the assistant to the chief engineer of what was then the Alton and Springfield Railroad.

Railroad and Casey
In 1878, American railroad legend Casey Jones got his first job with the railroad here, working as a telegrapher for the Mobile and Ohio Railroad.
The Casey Jones Railroad Museum State Park at Vaughan was designated a State Park on April 27, 1980.
John Luther " Casey " Jones ( March 14, 1863 – April 30, 1900 ) was an American railroad engineer from Jackson, Tennessee, who worked for the Illinois Central Railroad ( IC ).
A little-known example of Jones ' heroic instincts in action is described by his biographer and friend Fred J. Lee in his 1939 book Casey Jones: Epic of the American Railroad.
* " Casey Jones " is a cheat in the video game Railroad Tycoon II to instantly destroy all enemy trains.
* The Historic Casey Jones Home & Railroad Museum in Jackson, Tennessee
* Water Valley Casey Jones Railroad Museum in Water Valley, Mississippi
* Casey Jones Railroad Museum State Park in Vaughan, Mississippi Museum Closed in 2004
Also included is a stop on the Walt Disney World Railroad, and a Casey Junior Splash n ' soak Station.
* Casey Jr. Railroad Mercantile

Railroad and Jones
* Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company in Birmingham, Alabama, bought by U. S. Steel in 1907 ; U. S. Steel was removed from the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 1991.
Located in the parks is the popular William " Billy " Jones Wildcat Railroad.
Jones lived in Reno and in 2008, a letter in which he told of his Underground Railroad activities was discovered in a staircase in Sparta.
The first postmaster, William Jones, appointed the name Montrose, but the Illinois Central Railroad preferred Kappa.
Gulfport was founded by two men: William H. Hardy who was president of the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad ( G & SIRR ) that connected inland lumber mills to the coast, and Joseph T. Jones who later took over the G & SIRR, dredged the harbor in Gulfport, and opened the shipping channel to the sea.
The train wreck scene in the 1993 blockbuster movie The Fugitive starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones was filmed in Off The Rip along the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad.
Originally known as Glaze, Jones was platted as a townsite on April 22, 1898 by Luther F. Aldrich before the St. Louis and Oklahoma City Railroad constructed a line from Sapulpa to Oklahoma City.
In the early 1870s Tracy City an experimental blast furnace was built by Samuel Jones and owned by the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company.
Other than these payments Mrs. Jones received nothing as a result of the wreck or Jones ' service with the railroad, as the Railroad Retirement Fund was not established until 1937.
The following sites are listed on the National Register of Historic Places: George Westinghouse Jones House, Niskayuna Railroad Station, Niskayuna Reformed Church, and Rosendale Common School.
Collinsworth was instrumental in starting the Texas Railroad, Navigation, and Banking Company, to which Jones was vehemently opposed.
* Railroad Engineer ( Stupefied Jones )
The first track of railroad was built by Mr. B. F. Jones, of the Pittsburgh and Connellsville Railroad and later of Jones and Laughlin.

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