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.

This included the export of cotton and the development of diverse workmanships, such as the creation of the 2 secondary schools, the Ceará and Mucuripe Lighthouse in 1845, Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Fortaleza in 1861, Prainha Seminary in 1864, Public Library in 1867 and the Public transportation network in 1870, which began with the construction of Railroad of Baturité.

As of 1 December 1999 the Central East African Railways, a consortium led by Railroad Development Corporation, won the right to operate the network.

Central East African Railways, previously a subsidiary of the Railroad Development Corporation, operates the privatised Malawi Railways network.

* Underground Railroad, an informal network of secret routes and safe houses

* The Underground Railroad, a network of clandestine routes by which African slaves in the 19th century United States attempted to escape

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.

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.

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.

While her exact route is unknown, Tubman made use of the network known as the Underground Railroad.

The result of this effort was the construction of the Wilson Short Cut Railroad, which later became part of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, and which brought greater prosperity to the area by directly linking Dillon County to the national network of railroads.

After considerable debate and planning, most of the southern rail network was converted from gauge to gauge, nearly the standard of the Pennsylvania Railroad, over two remarkable days beginning on Monday, May 31, 1886.

In 1890 the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad connected Sebastopol to the national rail network.

Before the American Civil War, the area around West Branch was an active focal point of the Underground Railroad, a network for the freeing of slaves from the southern states.

The San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad connected Ukiah to the national rail network in 1889.

It was formally incorporated on February 8, 1881 when it was a stop on the Nodaway Valley Railroad ( which was building the railroad for the Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad that eventually became part of the Burlington Northern network.

The proximity of the river and of the slave state of Kentucky on the opposite shore led to Ripley's role as an early stop on the Underground Railroad, a network of citizens helping slaves escape north to freedom.

The two rail lines soon became part of the network controlled by the Pennsylvania Railroad.

The Union Pacific Railroad (), headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, is the largest railroad network in the United States.

Beginning in 1873, the village was served by the Clayton Division of the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad ( RW & O ), which later became a part of the New York Central network.

( although the Alaska Railroad goes further north than this, it is isolated from the rest of the rail network )

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.

After working as a private lawyer, Brice joined the Lake Erie and Louisville Railroad law department, where he gained his initial experience with the railroad industry, learning how to operate, fund, and expand its lines.

His initial engineering experience was primarily on the American prairies surveying for the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad.

B & SR design was based on experience of the Sandy River Railroad.

In order to help cut down on vehicle traffic in the local canyons during the games, and to give spectators a unique experience, SLOC reached an agreement with the historic Heber Valley Railroad to transport spectators to the Soldier Hollow venue.

By 1994, one of the earlier skeptics of the Steamtown project, Rail Fan and Railroad Magazine editor Mike DelVecchio, who had visited the site, had changed sides in the debate saying, " When it is finished, Steamtown will be the only place in America that can recreate the experience of mainline steam railroading.

The Historic Railroad Shops has proven to be a valuable educational experience for local public school students as well as a popular local tourist attraction.

Since then, more than $ 10 billion has been contributed by the TBTA to subsidize mass transit fares and capital improvements for the NYC Transit Authority, Long Island Rail Road, and Metro-North Railroad.

Trainz Classics, also abbreviated as TC, is a series of 3 standalone programs based on Trainz Railroad Simulator 2006, but with some improvements to the coding.

When the United States took over the wide Canal Zone and resumed building the canal on 4 May 1904 almost two years were spent in infra-structure preparation, mosquito abatement ( the newly discovered vector spreading Yellow fever and Malaria ), Panama Railroad improvements and planning before the work got up to full speed.

The Commonwealth of Virginia, always keen to help with internal improvements not only owned a portion of Virginia Central stock through the state Board of Public Works, but incorporated and financed the Blue Ridge Railroad to accomplish the hard and expensive task of crossing the Blue Ridge Mountains.

As part of a program of railroad improvements undertaken by the City of Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Railroad, a new section of tunnel from 22nd Street to 46th Street was started in 1930, which would allow for removal of the elevated structure east of 46th Street and the old Schuylkill River Bridge.

About this time he broadened his consulting work, providing reports on the proposed New York & Erie Railroad, the New York Harbor improvements, and other projects.

The Commonwealth of Virginia, always keen to help with internal improvements not only owned a portion of Virginia Central stock, but incorporated and financed the Blue Ridge Railroad to accomplish the hard and expensive task of crossing the first mountain barrier to the west.

The Virginia Board of Public Works, founded in 1816, supported numerous internal improvements in the state, owning part of the Virginia Central in stock as well as virtually all of the Blue Ridge Railroad.

Railroad improvements in 1972 reduced its maximum elevation from about to while also reducing the curvature.

King continued expanding his business operations, investing in the Corpus Christi, San Diego and Rio Grande Narrow Gauge Railroad Company, packing plants, ice houses, and harbor improvements at Corpus Christi.

On April 2, 1911, almost ten years after the proposed improvements, construction began on a new high-speed line in Newark along the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad.

Once served by the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, which purchased the Yellow River Railroad in 1906, the line was abandoned and lifted in the 1980s.

* Lloyd's Meat Market, located on main street between Railroad avenue and Bourgeois street in a wood and brick framed structure, this meat market offered locally produced fresh seafood and meat from the 1960s until the early 1980s.

to the 1980s, Until 1950 the Baltimore and Annapolis Railroad provided both passenger and freight service from Annapolis to Baltimore ; passenger service ended in February 1950 due to increased competition from buses and private automobiles, but freight service continued until Hurricane Agnes did so much damage to a trestle crossing the Severn River in Annapolis that the trestle was condemned for use by trains by the Army Corps of Engineers in the late 1960s ( The trestle remained as a haven for fishermen and crabbers until it was dismantled ).

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad cut through the town until its dismantling in the 1980s.

It was formerly on the Cincinnati Northern Railroad, but the tracks were removed in the 1980s.

The railroad track was abandoned in the 1980s, following the demise of the Katy Railroad.

After the passenger services ended, the railroad used the depot, located at 400 Railroad Avenue, for offices, training rooms, train crew staging areas, and storage, but abandoned the building in the late 1980s.

The tracks were once owned by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway ( ex-Pere Marquette Railway ) and the Pennsylvania Railroad ( ex-Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad ) but were purchased by the state in the late 1970s and early 1980s to preserve rail service in the area.

By 1980, the population reached 138, 850. Charles R. Matthews served as mayor in the 1980s ; he was later a member of the elected Texas Railroad Commission.

Other well-known trios from the 1970s and 1980s include The James Gang ; Glass Harp ; Raven ; Budgie ; Grand Funk Railroad ; Triumph ; Blue Cheer ; Johnny Winter's Progressive Blues Experiment ; Motörhead ; The Minutemen ; West, Bruce and Laing ; The Jam ; The Police ; Rush ; Zebra ; ZZ Top ; Robin Trower Band and, until the album Nightlife, Thin Lizzy.

CN's railway network in the late 1980s consisted of the company's Canadian trackage, along with the following U. S. subsidiary lines: Grand Trunk Western Railroad ( GTW ) operating in Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois ; Duluth, Winnipeg and Pacific Railway ( DWP ) operating in Minnesota ; Central Vermont Railway ( CV ) operating down the Connecticut River valley from Quebec to Long Island Sound ; and a former GT line to Portland, Maine, known informally as the Grand Trunk Eastern, sold to a short-line operator in 1989.

An additional mainline between Fort Worth and Salina, Kansas, was added in the 1980s after the collapse of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad ; this line was operated as the Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas Railroad ( OKKT ).

* Union Pacific acquired the Missouri Pacific and Missouri – Kansas – Texas Railroad in the 1980s and the Southern Pacific in 1996

It operates former Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad ( Milwaukee Road ) and Chicago and North Western Transportation Company ( C & NW ) trackage, mostly acquired by the state of Wisconsin in the 1980s.

The locomotive was transferred to Cornell's Knox and Kane Railroad at Marienville, Pennsylvania in the 1980s.

Access to the trail can be found east of a railroad bridge which goes over the right-of-way for a former railroad line once used by Seaboard Air Line Railroad that spanned from Coleman to Auburndale in Polk County until the 1980s.

After recording for labels such as Mountain Railroad and Flying Fish in the 1980s, Paxton started his own label, Pax Records, in 1987.

Three cabless SD40-2Bs were also rebuilt from standard SD40-2s by the Burlington Northern Railroad in the early 1980s.

") After the Great Northern underwent a series of mergers, becoming the Burlington Northern Railroad and eventually the BNSF Railway, the Hillyard yard and shops were closed in the early 1980s with BN's main yard operations in Spokane moving to Yardley.

The train tracks that are now the location of the Katy Trail formed the major east-bound route through Dallas of the former Missouri-Kansas-Texas ( MKT or “ Katy ”) Railroad, which shut down in the late 1980s.

* Photos of the Hartwell Railroad from the late 1980s through the 1990s