Railroad mileage was located mostly in rural areas and over two-thirds of the South's rails, bridges, rail yards, repair shops and rolling stock were in areas reached by Union armies, which systematically destroyed what they could.

By 1996 years of financial problems had dropped SP's mileage to, and it was taken over by the Union Pacific Railroad.

Ferromex ( reporting mark FXE ) ( a contraction of Ferrocarril Mexicano or " Mexican Railroad ") is a private rail consortium that operates the largest ( by mileage ) railroad in Mexico.

Railroad track mileage tripled between 1860 and 1880, and then doubled again by 1920.

As of 1906, two-thirds of the rail mileage in the U. S. was controlled by seven entities, with the New York Central, Pennsylvania Railroad ( PRR ), and Morgan having the largest portions.

Railroad mileage increased across West Texas, and the frontier became more secure.

A recent editorial discussing a labor-management agreement reached between the Southern Pacific Co. and the Order of Railroad Telegraphers has been criticized on the grounds that it was not based on complete information.

* Central Pacific Railroad ( usually: CPRR ), between California and Utah

* Chicago SouthShore and South Bend Railroad, a freight railroad between Chicago, Illinois, and South Bend, Indiana

* Colonial ( PRR train ), a Pennsylvania Railroad ran between Washington, DC and New York City, and was last operated in 1973 by Amtrak.

The Virginia & Truckee Railroad was built between Virginia City and Carson City.

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.

* 1830 – The first revenue trains in the United States begin service on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad between Baltimore, Maryland and Ellicott's Mills, Maryland.

* the New Yorker ( NKP train ), a train operated by the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad between Chicago and Buffalo

* the New Yorker ( PRR train ), a train operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad between New York and Detroit

* Ninth Division: Michigan, also lines of New York Central Railroad between New York City and Chicago.

Plans for the use of eminent domain to remove the shops in the area bounded by Vesey, Church, Liberty, and Fulton streets began in 1961 when the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey was deciding between the east side of Lower Manhattan and the west side near the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad terminals.

Congress appropriated $ 30, 000 in 1843 for construction of an experimental telegraph line between Washington, D. C., and Baltimore along the right-of-way of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.

While an " underground railroad " running south toward Florida, then a Spanish possession, existed from the late 17th century until shortly after the American Revolution, the network now generally known as the Underground Railroad was formed in the early 19th century, and reached its height between 1850 and 1860.

* September 11 – The Pennsylvania Railroad begins electrified commuter rail service between Paoli and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, using overhead AC trolley wires for power.

* 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.

The First Transcontinental Railroad ( known originally as the " Pacific Railroad " and later as the " Overland Route ") was a railroad line built in the United States of America between 1863 and 1869 by the Central Pacific Railroad of California and the Union Pacific Railroad that connected its statutory Eastern terminus at Council Bluffs, Iowa / Omaha, Nebraska ( via Ogden, Utah, and Sacramento, California ) with the Pacific Ocean at Oakland, California on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay opposite San Francisco.

The bridge is now operated by the Brownsville and Matamoros Bridge Company, a joint venture between the Mexican government and the Union Pacific Railroad.

In 1931, the D & RGW acquired the Denver and Salt Lake Western Railroad ( a company in name only ), a subsidiary of the Denver and Salt Lake Railroad ( D & SL ) which had acquired the rights to build a connection between the two railroads.

The Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad assumed operation of the line between Antonito, Colorado and Chama, New Mexico in 1970.

It was named for a former president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, but whether specifically for John Garrett or Robert W. Garrett is a matter of some disagreement between sources.

From 1853 to 1860, another of Lincoln's largest clients was the Illinois Central Railroad.

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.

The opening of the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869, and the development of steamships made travel much faster and less arduous than it was in 1860.

Sikeston, the largest city in the county and the fourth settlement to be founded, was settled in 1800 and was laid out in 1860 by John Sikes on the Cairo & Fulton Railroad.

Created in the early 19th century, the Underground Railroad was at its height between 1850 and 1860.

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.

Established in 1860 at the intersection of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad and Southern Railway of Mississippi, Meridian relied heavily on the rails and goods transported on them.

In 1860 Cedar Key became the western terminus of the Florida Railroad, connecting it to Fernandina on the east coast of Florida.

Red Bank grew in size as a result of this, as well as the construction of a railway in the town by the Raritan and Delaware Bay Railroad in 1860.

Records of the Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad show a station in the area in 1860 with no name, but freight and passengers from that site.

With help from the B & O and the Baltimore City Council, the Union Railroad finally connected Marietta to Belpre, Ohio in 1860.

The move for incorporation followed several years of significant growth in West Grove that began to develop with the coming of the Philadelphia and Baltimore Central Railroad in 1860.

It grew quickly when the Houston and Texas Central Railroad arrived in 1860.

The flag stop for the Texas and New Orleans Railroad, completed in 1860, was known variously as West Liberty, Days Station, and Dayton Station.

Liberty expanded as a shipping point when the Texas and New Orleans Railroad reached it in 1858, and in 1860 a Market House was under construction at the site of the future Sam Houston Elementary School.

Her home, the Meteor Ridge Farm, formerly called The Plantation was built in 1859 or 1860 and also served as a stop on the Underground Railroad, even receiving a personal visit from President Lincoln.

In April 1860, the city was platted in anticipation of the completion of the Cairo and Fulton Railroad which would intersect with the Spanish King's Highway.

The B & M leased the Danvers Railroad in 1853, and the combined Newburyport Railroad in 1860, making the line from Wakefield to Newburyport the main line and the old line to Bradford a branch.

Railroad companies in the North and Midwest constructed networks that linked every city by 1860.