The town was home to the railroad's repair shops, and was the point where the railroad's branch line to Gilmore connected with the main line.

The Omaha, Niobrara, and Black Hills branch of the Union Pacific ran north from the railroad's main line at Duncan to Norfolk ; it reached the city in 1880.

The railroad's main line extended 217 miles, from Ft. Smith, Arkansas, through Weleetka to Guthrie, Oklahoma.

In 1896, Page developed the Loup Creek and Deepwater Railway, a logging railroad connecting a small sawmill on the old Loup Creek Estate at Robson with the C & O railroad's main line at Deepwater on the Kanawha River.

The railroad's main route runs from the Lake Erie port of Conneaut, Ohio to the Pittsburgh suburb of Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, a distance of 139 miles.

By the 1920s the railroad's main line from Richmond, Virginia to Jacksonville, Florida had been double-tracked, which benefited the railroad during the 1920s when Florida boomed.

Bergen Arches is the common name for the Erie Cut, the Erie Railroad's mile-long, four-track cut which linked the railroad's main line to its Hudson River waterfront Pavonia Terminal, where travelers to New York City would transfer to ferries or the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad.

The railroad's main line extended 332 miles, from Hope, Arkansas to Shreveport and New Orleans.

The railroad's main commodities are petroleum products, agricultural products, and wood pulp.

Beginning in the 1980s many North American Class I railroads began adding radio transmitters and mechanical voices to their defect detectors ; as trains passed detectors, the mechanical or pre-recorded voice would sound out on the railroad's main road radio channel that a train has passed and note any defects that were found.

The line continued through Highwood, home of the railroad's headquarters and main shops, and continued through Lake Forest, Lake Bluff, North Chicago, and Waukegan.

The railroad's main traffic sources are petroleum gas and agricultural products.

The railroad's main commodities are limestone, urea, paper products, and food products.

The railroad's main depot is located in Heber City.

Bureau Junction was the point where the Rock Island Line railroad's branch line to Peoria spilt.

Leith was founded in 1910 along a Milwaukee Road branch line that separated from the railroad's Pacific Extension in McLaughlin, South Dakota and ran to New England, North Dakota.

Until the tracks were abandoned in 1983, the city was located at the terminus of a Milwaukee Road branch line that split from the railroad's Pacific Extension in McLaughlin, South Dakota.

Selfridge was settled in 1911 along a Milwaukee Road branch line that diverged from the railroad's Pacific Extension transcontinental route in McLaughlin, South Dakota and ran to New England, North Dakota.

Amidon was founded in 1910 at the anticipated terminus of a Milwaukee Road branch line that diverged from the railroad's Pacific Extension in McLaughlin, South Dakota.

Conway is located on the railroad's Chadbourn, NC-Myrtle Beach, SC branch.

Alternatively, it may be that railroad crews referred to the town as " Graftin " because it was the point at which a number of branch railroad lines met ( grafted to ) the railroad's mainline.

The railroad's extensive branch line service off the Empire Corridor in upstate New York was also gradually discontinued, the last being its Utica Branch between Utica and Lake Placid, in 1965.

Regardless of the railroad's small size and meager passenger fleet it looked for ways to more efficiently move passengers, such as employing all electric ( battery powered ) and gas-electric motorcars on light branch lines, which was much cheaper to operate than traditional steam or diesel-powered trains.

The railroad's mainline is roughly a straight line between these two terminal cities with a branch line connecting Bureau to Peoria, Illinois.

Annual snowslides and several major floods on the branch would only continue to challenge the railroad's ability to survive.

As the Union Pacific absorbed the D & RGW into its system, signs of the fabled mountain railroad's existence are slowly fading away.

Hill avoided this by investing a large portion of the railroad's profit back into the railroad itself — and charged those investments to operating expense.

The railroad's promise to pump massive capital into the town " lit the fuse of a crazed land boom ", and when M & MLI agent G. B. Hulme joined Clark the following week, the land rush was on.

The railroad's arrival led to the rapid transformation of the small agricultural village into a major supplier of anthracite coal.

On failing in his effort to obtain a permanent agreement with the Northern Pacific Railway, which had begun its extension into the Washington Territory, Villard used his Columbia River steamship line as his railroad's outlet to the Pacific Ocean.

Residents of Westchester County, New York, were serviced by the railroad's Hudson, Harlem, and Putnam lines, into Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan ( Putnam Division trains required a change at High Bridge, NY ), while residents of New Jersey and Rockland County, New York were serviced by the West Shore Line between Weehawken and West Haverstraw, New York: located on the west side of the Hudson River.

This was because corporations, such as Standard Oil, had corrupted many of the railroad's officials into providing them with rebates, and as whole, the companies in question were more powerful than any state government.

On January 22 of that year, a proud Henry Flagler rode the first passenger train into Key West, marking the completion of the railroad's oversea connection to Key West and the linkage by railway of the entire east coast of Florida.

When a washout destroys a railroad's right-of-way, the track is sometimes left suspended in midair across the newly-formed gap, or it dips down into a ditch.

* April – The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in Pierre, South Dakota, rules that the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad may use eminent domain to purchase land in South Dakota in order to build the railroad's extension into Wyoming's Powder River Basin.

Subsequently, it was placed into local service on the railroad's Wheeling Division, mostly operating between Holloway and Cleveland, Ohio.

Instead of gleaning insight from the railroad's successful struggle to bring its overhead under control, he turned the enterprise in the following decade into a mysteriously accounted borrowing machine.

It was used by the Soo Line until retirement in 1954, when it went into serviceable storage in Gladstone, Michigan as part of the railroad's strategic reserve.

Robinson took on many railroad building challenges for the Santa Fe, and under his guidance, the railroad built nearly 5, 000 miles of track, including the connection from Topeka, Kansas, to Chicago, Illinois, and the railroad's expansion into Texas and New Mexico before he resigned in 1893.

Upon the decline of intercity passenger traffic, and PRR and NYC's merger into Penn Central ( and that railroad's bankruptcy and reorganization into Conrail ), much of the trackage has been removed, and the commuter trains on the Metra Rock Island District no longer stop at the station, which was closed in the late 1970s.

First entry of C & A passenger trains from Joliet into Chicago was over the Chicago & Rock Island to that railroad's depot ( later La Salle Street Station ).