The First Transcontinental Railroad ( known originally as the " Pacific Railroad " and later as the " Overland Route ") was a railroad line built in the United States of America between 1863 and 1869 by the Central Pacific Railroad of California and the Union Pacific Railroad that connected its statutory Eastern terminus at Council Bluffs, Iowa / Omaha, Nebraska ( via Ogden, Utah, and Sacramento, California ) with the Pacific Ocean at Oakland, California on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay opposite San Francisco.

By 1900, Kerch was connected to a railroad system, and the fairway of Kerch Strait was deepened and widened.

The railroad connected Paris with Marseille ( 1848 ) and then with Toulon and Nice ( 1864 ).

A railroad was connected to the city from the Transcontinental Railroad in 1870, making travel less burdensome.

The French colonial administration rebuilt the town and connected it with the coast by a railroad.

Shelby County was the home of an early inland waterway, the Coosa River, and it was also the location of a very early east-west railroad in Alabama that connected Atlanta, Georgia, with locations to its west.

Shelby County was also crossed by an early north-south railroad, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, that connected Louisville, Nashville, Decatur, Birmingham, and Montgomery.

Between 1902 and 1912 four large office buildings were constructed at the intersection of 20th Street, the central north – south spine of the city, and 1st Avenue North, which connected the warehouses and industrial facilities stretching along the east – west railroad corridor.

In 1866, the first railroad in Bulgaria connected Varna with the Rousse on the Danube, linking the Ottoman capital Constantinople with Central Europe ; for a few years, the Orient Express ran through that route.

The county was connected to the outside world by railroad, mainly because of the booming coal mining industries being started on Bon Air Mountain.

Newberry was a trading town, and expanded with the arrival of the railroad in the early 1850s, which connected it to major towns and markets.

During the late 19th century a railroad line was connected through the Grape Creek Canyon but was permanently closed after a few disastrous floods.

Maresme has been historically very well connected with the rest of the comarca as well as with Barcelona thanks to old Camí Ral ( Royal Way ) ( actual N-II main road ) and railroad ( The Barcelona – Mataró railroad route, finished in 1848, was the first ever in all the Iberian Peninsula ).

Following the construction of the Cairo and Fulton railroad eight miles to the south of Washington, which connected much of the state with Little Rock, the town began a slow decline.

By the mid-19th century, Stafford was connected by railroad to markets across New England, and before the State Highway projects of the 1920s and 1930s, the town had a trolley connection to Rockville, CT.

The railroad track connected Ruskin to the Seaboard Airline Railroad line in 1913.

As W. D. Chipley connected the rural Florida Panhandle, along the way he came up with names for certain communities the railroad bisected.

A railroad often cited as Florida's first connected the port of St. Marks with the territorial capital, Tallahassee, some 20 miles inland.

A railroad connected Nason and Mt.

In the late 19th century, when the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway connected its service through to Chicago, it also laid track through Galesburg, making this city one of relatively few of its size to be served by multiple railroads and even fewer to have multiple railroad depots.

It remained primarily a farming community ; although the village was connected to the railroad in 1910, the line was closed ten years later.

The railroad connected the region to the national economy, ending its previous isolation, and ensured the future success of the area.

* Lower Clarkdale, east of 9th Street / Miller's Hill, along Main Street to 4th Street and the railroad tracks.

* Riverfront, between 4th Street / railroad and the Verde River ( sometimes included in Lower Clarkdale ).

The trail, developed on a former railroad bed, follows Perkiomen Creek and connects three county parks ( Lower Perkiomen Valley Park, Central Perkiomen Valley Park, and Green Lane Park ) and two county historic sites ( Mill Grove at Audubon Wildlife Sanctuary and Pennypacker Mills ).

It was also called Cork, after the Irish who settled there while and after the building of the railroad, and Lower Bergen.

It was also called Cork, after the Irish who settled there while and after the building of the railroad, and Lower Bergen.

By 1867, it had become the largest railroad system in the world by accumulating more than of track that connected locations between its ocean port at Portland, Maine, its river port at Rivière-du-Loup, the three northern New England states, and much of the southern areas of Lower and Upper Canada ( Quebec and Ontario ).

The railroad bridge contained girders recycled from the PRR's Lower Trenton Bridge across the Delaware River.

As the United States industrialized during the 19th century, immigrants and workers from the countryside were housed in former middle-class houses and other buildings, such as warehouses, which were bought up and divided into small dwellings, and also, beginning as early as the 1830s on the Lower East Side or possibly the 1820s on Mott Street, in jerry-built 3-and 4-floor " railroad flats " ( so called because the rooms are linked together like a train ) with windowless internal rooms.

The first railroad station in Denver was constructed at Wazee and Wynkoop streets in present-day Lower Downtown.

The lawyers advised management to maintain passenger service on all lines so as to not violate the charter, and thus the Georgia was perhaps the last railroad to operate mixed trains in the " Lower 48 ," well into the Amtrak era.

At the time, the Lower Trenton Bridge was the first railroad bridge in the United States to be used for interstate rail traffic.

Consideration was also given to building atop railroad tracks on the West Side of Manhattan ( an idea revived in 1998 ) and to Long Island City, in Queens.

Yonkers ' excellent transportation infrastructure, including three commuter railroad lines ( now two, the Harlem and Hudson Lines ) and five parkways and thruways, as well as its 15-minute drive from Manhattan and picturesque " period " homes and apartments, made it a desirable city in which to live.

The railroad changed the name to Amsterdam because of the large number of Dutch settlers who had moved to the area in the 1890s to grow malting barley to supply the Manhattan Malting Company.

He also said in his statement to the court that he had built over of railway viaduct, referring to his design of the elevated railroad in New York in 1868, some of which still survives in Manhattan ( unused ).

The first tunnels to be bored below the Hudson River were the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad's uptown and downtown tunnels, constructed in the first decade of the 20th century to link the major railroad terminals in New Jersey with Manhattan Island ( they currently run PATH trains ).

Additionally, commuter railroad service is available to Grand Central Terminal in midtown Manhattan, locations in the Bronx, and points north via the Marble Hill train station, served by Metro-North Railroad ’ s Hudson Line.

PATH, derived from Port Authority Trans-Hudson, is a rapid transit railroad serving Newark, Harrison, Hoboken and Jersey City in metropolitan northern New Jersey and Manhattan in New York City.

Major buyers included the Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad, a suburban carrier which owned 32, the Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad, a Colorado common-carrier railroad which owned 23, and the New York and Manhattan Beach Railroad, another suburban carrier, which ran seventeen locomotives of this pattern.

The Hell Gate Bridge ( originally the New York Connecting Railroad Bridge or The East River Arch Bridge ) is a steel through arch railroad bridge between Astoria in the borough of Queens, Randall's / Wards Island ( which are now joined into one island and are politically part of Manhattan ), and The Bronx in New York City, over a portion of the East River known as Hell Gate.

From there, he pulls stunts like renaming Barney Baruch's private bench as " Bugs Bunny ", painting barbershop-pole stripes on the Washington Monument, rewiring the lights in Times Square to read " Bugs Bunny Wuz Here ", shutting down Niagara Falls, selling the entire island of Manhattan back to Native Americans, sawing Florida off from the rest of the country, swiping all the locks off the Panama Canal, filling in the Grand Canyon, and literally tying up railroad tracks.

Christopher Street is the first stop in Manhattan on the 33rd Street Line of the Port Authority Trans-Hudson rapid transit railroad.

* PATH, an electric railroad connecting Manhattan to New Jersey

Until 1961 Lehigh Valley Railroad ( LV ) passenger trains bound to / from Pennsylvania Railroad's station in Manhattan, such as the Black Diamond, used the connection to reach their own railroad from the PRR main line.

It was an interchange station where transfer was possible from the railroad to a bus through the Lincoln Tunnel to the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown Manhattan.

It was first a steam railroad, then a BRT elevated line, and was then extended into Manhattan via subway.

When the Brooklyn – Manhattan Transit Corporation ( BMT ) operated the line railroad directions were east and west, generally in agreement with compass direction.

Once the Board of Transportation took over the system, the direction was reversed so that railroad north on this line became towards Manhattan, and corresponds roughly to a westerly to southwesterly compass direction.

In 1919, a completely reconstructed New West End Terminal was built on an elevated structure to consolidate the terminals of all the former steam railroad lines terminating at Coney Island except the Long Island Rail Road-controlled New York and Manhattan Beach Railway.

This may be because it is an essentially east-west line ( e. g., the Jamaica Line ), so railroad north means towards Manhattan and railroad south means away from Manhattan.

Charles Harvey demonstrating his elevated railroad design on Greenwich Street ( Manhattan ) | Greenwich Street in 1867