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Railroad station porters ( not train porters ) traditionally wear distinctive red-colored caps for easy identification, contrasting with the caps in blue or other colors, normally worn by other train personnel.
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Railroad and station
The Alcotts hosted a steady stream of visitors at The Hillside, including fugitive slaves, which they hosted in secret as a station of the Underground Railroad.
** Harvey House Railroad Depot, station code BAR
* Manhattan Transfer ( PRR station ), the ferry transfer required to access Manhattan from New Jersey via the Pennsylvania Railroad prior to the erection of Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan
Lee was born Norma Deloris Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota, the seventh of eight children of Marvin Olof Egstrom, a station agent for the Midland Continental Railroad, and his wife Selma Amelia ( Anderson ) Egstrom.
The Borough of County Line in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania changed its name to Telford in 1857, after the North Pennsylvania Railroad Company named its new station there " Telford " in honour of Thomas Telford.
Rockville Railroad Station | Baltimore and Ohio Railroad station in Rockville, built 1873.
* Cisco, Minnesota, a former Soo Line Railroad station in Badger Township, Minnesota
** Stratford ( Metro-North station ), Metro-North Railroad station serves the residents of Stratford, Connecticut via the New Haven Line
It is located southeast of the main entrance to the Amtrak / Metro-North Railroad station.
In 1873 the B & O Railroad constructed a station at Gaithersburg, designed by Ephraim Francis Baldwin as part of his well-known series of Victorian stations in Maryland.
Railroad bridges ( with nearest train station on the left and right bank ):
The city is served by a station on the Trans-Siberian Railroad, and by the Tsentralny Airport.
The radio station was founded as WLPI-AM in 1966 and originally housed in a rented office on Railroad Avenue in downtown Ruston.
The stone railway station in the film was built in 1904 for the Northwestern Pacific Railroad and is one of the few commercial buildings in central Santa Rosa to survive the earthquake of April 18, 1906.
* Pennsylvania Railroad Station at Latrobe ( 325 McKinley Avenue ): This station was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1903.
The Cranford station offers service on the New Jersey Transit Raritan Valley Line, formerly the mainline of the Central Railroad of New Jersey.
There is a strong oral tradition that the Griffitts House and Farm near Jackson Ferry was a station on the Underground Railroad.
In 1900, the SAL Railroad constructed the Hamlet Historical Depot Seaboard Air Line Passenger Depot, a Victorian architecture train station which is one of the most photographed train stations in the eastern United States.
* Bessville-Located at the end of Route OO northwest of Glen Allen, there once was a station here on the Belmont Branch Railroad.
* Greenbrier-Located at the end of Route W northeast of Arab, there once was a station here along the Zalma Branch Railroad.
* Laflin-Located at the end of Route U northeast of Leopold, there once was a station here on the Belmont Branch Railroad.
* Richardson-Located at the end of County Road 644 along the Diversion Channel east of Greenbrier, there used to be a station on the Zalma Branch Railroad between Greenbrier and Brownwood.
Railroad and porters
A former Pullman Porter of twenty years, and a devoted husband ( Louie Elizabeth Harris ) and father of three, Webster had been fired by the company for attempting to organize porters in the Railroad Men's Benevolent Association.
The Railroad Commission of Texas, an administrative agency in Texas issued an order requiring sleeping cars on trains to be staffed by conductors ( who were white ) instead of by porters ( who were black ).
Railroad and train
In 1851, he represented Alton & Sangamon Railroad in a dispute with one of its shareholders, James A. Barret, who had refused to pay the balance on his pledge to buy shares in the railroad on the grounds that the company had changed its original train route.
* Bluegrass ( train ), a passenger train of the Monon Railroad
* Railroad car, a vehicle on a train that is towed by the locomotive
* Colonial ( PRR train ), a Pennsylvania Railroad ran between Washington, DC and New York City, and was last operated in 1973 by Amtrak.
* 1951 – The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey.
* Mercury ( train ), run by the New York Central Railroad during 1936-1958
* 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
* the Oregonian ( train ), a train operated by the Oregon and California Railroad
Nashvilles commanding officer, Commander John Hubbard, sent a small party ashore and, with the support of the American superintendent of the Panama Railroad, kept the Colombians from taking the train to Panama City.
* 1958 – A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay, killing 58.
The Railroad itself was often known as the " freedom train " or " Gospel train ", which headed towards " Heaven " or " the Promised Land ", i. e., Canada.
* February 6 – A Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, killing 85 people and injuring over 500, in one of the worst rail disasters in American history.
* March 31 – Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad operates its final train.
On June 4, 1876, an express train called the Transcontinental Express arrived in San Francisco via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after it left from New York City.
Years later, she told an audience: " I was conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say – I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.
In May 1934, the Union Pacific Railroad exhibited its first streamlined train, the M-10000, and the Burlington Route its famous Zephyr which, on May 26, made a record-breaking dawn-to-dusk run from Denver, Colorado, to Chicago in 13 hours and 5 minutes.
The Cripple Creek and Victor Narrow Gauge Railroad, a narrow gauge train ride from Cripple Creek passes several small ghost towns, goldmines, and glory holes.
Until 1997, the Amtrak Desert Wind train service ran through Las Vegas using the Union Pacific Railroad tracks.
File: The Royal Gorge Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad. JPG | The train in the shadow of Colorado's highest mountain, Mount Elbert.
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