Around 1903, just before the St. Louis World's Fair opened, the St. Louis, Memphis and Southern Railroad purchased the company-owned railroad's right-of-way through Crystal City and neighboring Festus, Missouri to establish what became the Frisco Line.

In various areas the defunct railroad's right-of-way is in use by other railroads, such as the Somerset Railroad.

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.

An unmarked monument exists in today's Interstate 440 loop south of downtown Nashville, which sits on the old Tennessee Central right-of-way, purchased by the state in the railroad's last years.

An analysis of the plan by Minnesota's Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad Working Group in 2001 showed support among customers and freight shippers, but DM & E's expansion plan led to complaints among residents in communities along the railroad's right-of-way.

The Commonwealth then sold most of the route to the Virginia Electric and Power Company ( VEPCO ) ( now Dominion Virginia Power ), whose transmission lines had run along the railroad's right-of-way.

A short portion of the line was retained to provide access from North Chicago Junction to the railroad's shops in Highwood ; the remainder of the line was removed, much of the right-of-way becoming automobile parking spaces for commuters who switched to the suburban trains of the parallel Chicago and North Western Railway.

:* – India's Parliament passes the Railway Bill that will allow Indian Railways to commercially develop land adjoining the railroad's right-of-way.

Stanford, made a trial run over the new railroad's first 500 feet of track.

Being paid by the mile, the railroad built oxbows of extraneous track never venturing further than from Omaha in the railroad's first 2½ years.

This is used to bill the railroad's customers for the carriage of bulk commodities, so it is essential that the track scales be accurate.

DM & E's expansion would require the construction of 281 miles ( 452 km ) of new track, upgrading 598 miles ( 962 km ) of existing track ( including all of the railroad's track in Minnesota ), new interchange connections in Owatonna and Mankato, Minnesota, and three new rail yards.

:* – Alaska Railroad is awarded a US $ 24. 8 million federal grant to replace aging ties and bridges along the railroad's mainline, install new track at a new intermodal facility in Fairbanks and upgrade about 30 miles ( 48. 2 km ) of track from jointed to continuous welded rail.

When the railroad's first track was built in the 1840s, Hoyt had been a contractor grading portions of it, building bridges, and supplying ties.

These trains were dubbed Electroliners and were the railroad's premiere service run as fast as 90 mph between Dempster Street and North Chicago Junction on the North Shore's excellent track and roadbed.

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.

Volunteers have restored the railroad's 1883 Alpine Tunnel telegraph office and reconstructed the station platform and of rail track, a turntable and an outhouse.

A stopover known as Upton Station was established just beyond the railroad's Little Tennessee River crossing.

Much of the railroad's original route has been converted to a multi-use recreational trail, known as the Kettle Valley Rail Trail, which carries the Trans-Canada Trail through this part of British Columbia.

The merged company was known as " SCL / L & N ", " Family Lines ," and was depicted as such on the railroad's rolling stock.

One of the railroad's steam engines, former COER CLC 2-8-0 # 17, is most widely known for holding the historic title as the last operating common carrier steam locomotive in America.

Problems began when the Wichita Falls and Northwestern Railroad missed Eschiti by two miles and Kell City ( named after the railroad ’ s promoter ) sprang up along the railroad's route.

Deer Lodge was also once an important railroad town, serving as a division headquarters for the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (" the Milwaukee Road ") before the railroad's local abandonment in 1980.

The city was once the eastern terminus of electric operations ( 1914 – 74 ) of the Milwaukee Road railroad's " Pacific Extension " route, which went all the way to Avery, Idaho.

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.

An early pioneer planter by the name of Zachary " Big Zack " Graham was asked by the South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company to allow the new railroading company, which began in 1830, to use some of his vast acreage in the area, which was back then the Barnwell District ( which after the War Between the States became today's Bamberg County ) for the use of his railroad's tracks.

The railroad's foothold on transcontinental traffic leaving the Port of Seattle increased so exponentially that the Milwaukee Road held a staggering advantage over BN carrying nearly 80 % of the originating traffic along with 50 % of the total container traffic leaving the Puget Sound ( prior to severe service declines after roughly 1974 ).

A passenger carrying a package, while hurrying to catch and board a moving Long Island Rail Road train, appeared to two of the railroad's ( Defendant's ) employees to be falling.

* The Nickel Plate Road begins a massive grade separation project in Cleveland, Ohio, to eliminate street grade crossings on the railroad's mainline in the city.

The BF & CI would have preferred a more direct route to downtown Brooklyn, but instead had to settle for a route which took it north to the Bedford station of the Long Island Rail Road, where Brighton trains could operate to the latter railroad's terminal at Flatbush Avenue and Atlantic Avenue.

The arrival of the Northern Branch in the late 1850s, followed by additional train service from what became the West Shore Railroad, brought residents to the community who could commute to Manhattan via the ferry across the Hudson River at the railroad's Weehawken depot.

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.

After the railroad's Peninsula Extension reached the new coal pier at Newport News in late 1881, the same construction crews were put to work on what would later be called the Peninsula Subdivision's Hampton Branch.

With the formation of Metro-North Railroad in 1983 the D & N became the Danbury Branch of that railroad's New Haven Line.

Once the Moorefield and Virginia Railroad Company acquired the line, the remaining link to Petersburg was completed and the full length of the railroad's course in the South Branch Valley had been finished.

The Chinese laborers worked out well and thousands more were recruited until the railroad's completion in 1869.

The shops were sited to be located approximately at the midpoint of the railroad's line between Atlanta, GA and Washington, DC.

By the mid-19th century, as Roaring Spring was first growing, the regional peculiarities of folk architecture were gradually disappearing under the railroad's and the industrial revolution's influences.

Pullman cars were normally a dark " Pullman green ," although some were painted in the host railroad's colors.

A published photo shows the railroad's Ilwaco facilities, including a gallows turntable and elevated watering trough, were located on the southwest corner of the intersection of First and Spruce streets.

Several factories were built in Ahnapee as a result of the railroad's arrival, including the Ahnapee Seating & Veneer Company.

1855, represents the railroad's first roundhouse at Scranton, Pennsylvania, and integrates technology and wilderness within an observed landscape ; in time, not only would Inness shun the industrial presence in favor of bucolic or agrarian subjects, but he would produce much of his mature work in the studio, drawing on his visual memory to produce scenes that were often inspired by specific places, yet increasingly concerned with formal considerations.

In 1878, Board of Aid president Franklin Webster Smith and an agent with the new Cincinnati Southern Railway, Cyrus Clarke, were travelling on the railroad's new tracks along the Cumberland Plateau when they identified the future site of Rugby, and were impressed with its virgin forests, clear air, and scenic gorges.

* In advertising for the Union Pacific Railroad in the 1950s, the southwestern states of the United States served by the Union Pacific were collectively called The Golden Empire because the railroad's diesel engines were and are colored golden, red, and black.

Growth in the area exploded after the Civil War with the completion of the New Jersey and New York Railway through the Pascack Valley, as communities were established near the railroad's stations.

Before dining cars in passenger trains were common in the United States, a rail passenger's option for meal service in transit was to patronize one of the roadhouses often located near the railroad's water stops.

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.

Many of the railroad's great train stations in Rochester, Schenectady, and Albany were either demolished or abandoned in an effort to raise money and save on operating costs.

Only those trains which were to be continued after the merger with the PRR were retained, along with the railroad's commuter trains.

The railroad's founding trustees were Arthur Denny, John Collins, Franklin Mathias, Angus Mackintosh, Henry Yesler, James McNaught, J. J. McGilvra, J. M. Colman, and Dexter Horton.

The railroad's locomotives, rail cars, equipment, tracks, and real estate were sold to other railroads or to scrappers.

The railroad's inspection locomotive were special types of steam locomotive designed to carry railroad officials on inspection tours of the railroad property.

They were originally built in the railroad's shops.

Under Deramus, passenger service was almost entirely eliminated, and the railroad's offices, spread out in Chicago and throughout the system, were consolidated in Oelwein.