Its difficulties were compounded by the next set of technological changes: the railroad that displaced the Erie Canal as the region's economic engine bypassed Lima completely.

Edison's family moved to Port Huron, Michigan after the railroad bypassed Milan in 1854 and business declined ; his life there was bittersweet.

In 1854, the new railroad from Fernandina to Cedar Key bypassed Newnansville, and Gainesville, a new town that was located on the railroad, began to draw business and residents away from Newnansville.

When the railroad bypassed the Contharp Community, many of the residents relocated to work at a nearby sawmill.

This railroad bypassed Jacksonville and instead went through Medford, located five miles ( 8 km ) east of Jacksonville.

The old county seat of Spring Place was bypassed by the railroad.

When the railroad bypassed Hardyville, it quickly became a ghost town until the construction of the Davis Dam.

Alachua was established in 1884 on a railroad line, after the railroad had bypassed nearby Newnansville.

A fire burnt the town in 1904 and shortly thereafter the Camas Prairie Railroad bypassed the town and started a settlement of its own, a mile east and called " Vollmer ", on the northeast side of the railroad tracks.

However, Auburn was cast aside as an option, as the railroad bypassed the city.

It declined rapidly after river traffic was cut off and it was bypassed by the railroad.

When the former seaport was bypassed during construction of railroad lines in the 19th century, its decline continued.

However, railroad lines bypassed the village and it did not prosper, eventually disincorporating.

When the Chicago St Paul Minneapolis and Omaha Railroad laid tracks in 1899 and bypassed the town, the townspeople moved themselves and their city to a favorable spot on the railroad line.

When the railroad was completed around 1882, it bypassed Lakeville.

However, the residents of the southern portion of the county voted overwhelmingly against the bond issue in an 1871 election: they were displeased at having been bypassed by an earlier railroad line, anticipated no benefits from the new line, and were angry with Seward, which had won the county seat away from the southern town of Milford.

The railroad, developed in the 1840s, bypassed the town of Somers, and affected a decline in growth over the next hundred years.

The railroad bypassed the town by three-fourths of a mile, so the citizens moved their businesses closer to the railroad.

Long the major town in central Oregon, Prineville was snubbed in 1911 when the railroad tycoons James J. Hill and Edward H. Harriman bypassed the city as they laid track south from The Dalles.

The city was the principal financial center of southern Oregon until it was bypassed by the railroad.

Being bypassed by the major railroad route permanently affected Brownsville's economy and made it subsidiary to Pittsburgh.

They are Parris Mitchell ( Robert Cummings ), who lives with his grandmother ( Maria Ouspenskaya ); Cassandra Tower ( Betty Field ), daughter of Dr. Alexander Tower ( Claude Rains ); the wealthy orphan Drake McHugh ( Ronald Reagan ); Louise Gordon ( Nancy Coleman ), daughter of the sadistic town physician Dr. Henry Gordon ( Charles Coburn ), who has been known to perform operations without anesthetic ; and the tomboy Randy Monaghan ( Ann Sheridan ), whose father ( Ernest Cossart ) is a railroad worker.

These Ann Arbor railroad cars and steamships would have been familiar sights in Elberta in 1911, when this Public transport timetable | timetable was printed.

In 1868, the Ann Arbor railroad came through the area and resident James Bush, while officially platting the land, bartered with the railroad some of his property for the right to have the station named after his wife, Rose.

Today, no trains stop here, but it is the home to the Ann Arbor Model Railroad Club, and almost completely surrounded by old railroad memorabilia, such as old level crossing signals and baggage carts.

* Ann Arbor Railroad ( disambiguation ), a railroad connecting Ann Arbor, Michigan and Toledo, Ohio in the United States

The Toledo, Ann Arbor and Grand Trunk Railway ( later the Toledo, Ann Arbor and North Michigan Railway and then the Ann Arbor Railroad ), opened on June 8, 1878, with a station named " Azalia ", named after one of the daughters of the president of the railroad, Azalia Ashley.

After crossing both the railroad and Ann Street, the highway widens to allow for a grassy median.

The Ann Arbor Railroad was an American railroad that operated between Toledo, Ohio and Elberta and Frankfort, Michigan ( about 294 route miles ) with train ferry operations across Lake Michigan.

The railroad company was chartered September 21, 1895 as successor to the Toledo, Ann Arbor and North Michigan Railway.

After itself going bankrupt in 1973 the Ann Arbor ceased operations as a railroad on April 1, 1976, when the Consolidated Rail Corporation ( Conrail ) temporarily took over.

The B of LF and other similar railroad brother hoods were, in short, based as much upon a process of exclusion as they were upon unification, as historian Mary Ann Clawson has noted in a 1989 book.

A further locomotive was supplied to Scott's Pit railroad at Llansamlet, near Swansea in 1819 but it too was soon withdrawn, apparently because it was under-boilered and also because of damage to the track.

However, when Puerto Rico changed its mostly agricultural economy to an industrialized one, and the U. S. and Puerto Rican governments started investing heavily in interstate highways and freeways, the railroad business soon collapsed.

Toledo soon became a hub for several railroad companies and a hotspot for industries like furniture producers, carriage makers, breweries, glass manufacturers, and others.

In 1865 the first railroad line opened ( to Koluszki, branch line of the Warsaw-Vienna Railway ), and soon the city had rail links with Warsaw and Białystok.

Frederick Lovejoy would soon fill Palmer's vacated seat on the D & RG, the first in a succession of post Palmer presidents that would attempt to direct the railroad through future struggles and successes.

The arrival of the railroad, and the discovery that adding trace elements like copper was the remedy for crops sprouting and dying quickly, soon created a population boom and new towns like Moore Haven, Clewiston, and Belle Glade.

Word of mouth soon spread the news, and this land became part of the " underground railroad " for runaway slaves.

Passing to the east of a railroad fork, Route 26 parallels the Northeast Corrdior tracks as Livingston Avenue, crossing through an industrial area and intersecting with the Route 26 Connector soon after.

A Southern Pacific depot and U. S. Post Office building in the style of the first half of the 20th century originally stood at the railroad junction, but it was closed in the late 1950s and eventually razed soon afterward.

Originally, it was a railroad depot known as Station Number 7, but it soon was named Baxley

Settlers began homesteading the Upper Snake River Valley as soon as the railroad came through.

The Chicago Tribune article that described the 1851 excursion trip stated that there were a few frame houses near the railroad and Mr. Huntley soon built a general store there as well.

The railroad soon became the Toledo, Peoria and Western.

This railroad was soon absorbed by the Illinois Central.

The railroad was soon taken over by the Illinois Central and was sometimes known as the Bloomer Line.

The railroad soon became the Toledo Peoria and Western.

The original town of what would soon become Stanford had an unusual " L " shaped design, with the leg of the " L " extending to the east along the railroad tracks.

They soon elected an executive committee to command the strike and issued General Order No. 1, halting all railroad traffic other than passenger and mail trains.

The advent of the railroad was soon to be the answer to the immigrant's prayers.

Industry soon clustered along the railroad toward the south end of Main Street.

The completion of the railroad soon brought a flood of new residents and business enterprises.

It soon closed down when the new railroad was built two miles north.

The Moundridge area was settled by Mennonites soon after the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869.

An interurban railroad soon allowed for commuting to Downtown Louisville, and the first year-round house was built by Annie and Stuart Duncan in 1908.

Bernice was incorporated that same year, and the railroad depot was built soon after.