A railroad line arrived in 1852, fostering the development of other industries.

The coming of the railroad to North Cambridge and Northwest Cambridge then led to three major changes in the city: the development of massive brickyards and brickworks between Massachusetts Ave., Concord Ave. and Alewife Brook ; the ice-cutting industry launched by Frederic Tudor on Fresh Pond ; and the carving up of the last estates into residential subdivisions to provide housing to the thousands of immigrants that arrived to work in the new industries.

Mexican factory workers and railroad crews first arrived in the Chicagoland area ( Chicago, Illinois ), used the term among themselves, probably to mean chicanery or the working man.

Visitors arrived by steamboat and later by railroad.

The railroad arrived in Oswego in 1886, in the form of the Portland and Willamette Valley Railway.

On January 10, 1891, the first railroad train arrived in Eddy, having come from Pecos, Texas.

The railroad had arrived in Rolla in 1860 but the outbreak of the war halted the westward expansion of the line.

Most of the inhabitants of Knoxville, a mile away, moved to Roberta when the railroad arrived.

The first railroad finally arrived in the county in 1877 when the Colorado Central Railroad extended a line north from Golden via Longmont to Cheyenne.

Newton remained a port for river boats on the nearby Choctawhatchee, until the railroad arrived in 1890.

The Southern Pacific Railroad arrived in 1891 and named the place Pollasky for Marcus Pollasky, a railroad official.

When the railroad arrived, Los Banos relocated to its present day site.

In the early 1900s, large numbers of traqueros or railroad workers from Mexico arrived to become a near dominant ethnic group.

The railroad arrived in 1888 and the city government was incorporated that same year.

Crowds of health seekers arrived, first by stagecoach and then railroad, and hotels were built near the springs to accommodate them.

The railroad arrived in 1880, the first train coming from Astor to Fort Mason, where passengers and freight made lake steamer connections to Leesburg, Helena, Yalaha, Bloomfield, Lane Park and Tavares.

When the Florida Railway and Navigation Company railroad arrived in the county during 1882, a new development firm called the Marion Land and Improvement Company was formed to promote and sell the land around Lake Lillian.

The railroad, later part of the Camas Prairie Railroad, arrived from Lewiston in 1899.

The railroad, which arrived in 1854, carried thousands of immigrants – at that time mostly Swedish, Belgian, and German, reflecting areas of economic problems in Europe – to Moline's borders.

The newly constructed railroad had arrived from Belmond, Iowa.

Mr. Joseph came from West Virginia and as more settlers arrived he became interested in a railroad to serve the area.

Although some residents seem to think that it had something to do with the railroad, one story states the first train to pass through the community arrived on Easter Sunday.

The railroad had been advising the residents to adopt a shorter name, and when a newly arrived resident from Rockford, Illinois proposed the name of his former town, the new name was narrowly approved.

The river continued to be important for commercial use until the railroad arrived in Owosso.

However, there is one railroad that connects Chile with Argentina via the Andes, and there are others that make the same connection via southern Bolivia.

That same year, the mainline of the transcontinental railroad into Oakland was re-routed, putting the right-of-way along the bay shore through Ocean View.

That same year, George A. Mitchell, a prominent Cadillac banker and railroad entrepreneur, and Adam Gallinger, a local carpenter, formed the Clam Lake Canal Improvement and Construction Company.

* June 21 – WWII: Vichy France and Germany sign an armistice at Compiegne, in the same wagon-lit railroad car used by Marshal Ferdinand Foch to accept the surrender of Germany in 1918.

In December 1871 he left the railroad yards for work on the railways as a locomotive fireman for the same company.

After the railroad was built through the state, along the same river plain, it superseded the canal, which was filled in in some areas.

In the same year, Armstrong City was renamed Claude in honor of railroad engineer Claude Ayers.

The first railroad ( which became the Pennsylvania Railroad ) followed much the same route, and the Reading Railroad progressed up the Schuylkill River to Reading.

Also the same year, he starred as a veteran railroad engineer in the action film Unstoppable, about an unmanned, half-mile-long runaway freight train carrying a dangerous cargo.

At the same time that the railroad was being planned, a group of Michigan lumbermen began acquiring thousands of acres of timber in the Sierra Nevada about 75 miles northeast of Fresno.

At the same time, the community leaders were also able to persuade the Southern Pacific Rail Road Company to build a railroad line to the bridge.

At about same time the town of Springville had begun to form just to the west of the emerging town of Camarillo but when the Southern Pacific railroad was built and chose Camarillo as the location for a depot, Springville's existence was threatened.

The city of Daisy, Georgia was established in 1890, the same year that the Savannah and Western Railroad built a railroad line through the area.

The plan used was virtually identical to that at Chatsworth Illinois, including the street names, and the plan very similar to that at Gridley and El Paso on the same railroad.

As in other towns along the same railroad, there was a widened rectangular area paralleling the tracks labeled “ Depot Grounds .” In the case of McLean, the Depot Grounds were laid out only on the southeast side of the railroad.

The McLean County town of Covell was founded, within a few months of Allen, as a station on the same railroad.

This was a common design in newly established towns along the Chicago and Alton Railroad and may be found, with slight variations, in places like Dwight, Gardner, Odell and Mclean ; Fell's town of Normal, established at the same time as Towanda, was to have had exactly the same arrangement ; except that in Normal, the original street paralleling the railroad, quickly lost its importance to the reverse side of the block.

In that same year, the Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad finished building a railroad track from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, thus connecting Lake Michigan with the Mississippi River by rail.

The railroad reached Great Bend in July 1872, and an election the same month declared the town the permanent county seat.

The Climax post office, renamed from Belle Grove in 1873, moved several miles east in 1879 into what would later be the town, the same year a railroad was constructed through the site.

The first individuals to own the land upon which Basehor now stands were Thomas S. and Mary Z. Townest ( though William Henery Lewis, who surveyed for the Railroad, bought an exstensive plot on land to the northeast of Basehor around 1861 and homsteaded it right after the civil war ) The couple bought it from the railroad in 1873 and mortgaged it to Ephraim Basehor the same year.