As of 2004, the nation ’ s railway system consisted of a state-controlled 660 km section of a 1, 146 km narrow gauge railroad that ran north from Abidjan through Bouaké and Ferkéssédougou to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

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 Central Pacific ( the first transcontinental railroad ) also ran through the county, although a portion of the original route has been shifted for a new route south of Wadsworth in favor of Fernley.

In 1871, the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad constructed a north-south railroad through this area, while the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad built an east-west line that ran through Vinita.

The county's first railroad was constructed between 1850 – 1854, a line that ran from Springfield to Delaware and crossed through the county in Milford, Marysville, Irwin, and Dover.

The Toledo and Central railroad ran from Columbus north through the county, with station points at Marysville, Peoria, and Raymond.

The Central Pacific ( the first transcontinental railroad ) ran through the county, although a portion of the original route has been shifted for a new route south of Wadsworth in favor of Fernley.

The railroad ran its first train on December 22, 1860, making Rolla the terminus of the road.

The railroad ran westward into neighboring Iberville Parish passing the village of Rosedale.

This was because Route 33 ran alongside some railroad tracks at that point, and a massive overpass carried US 130 over both.

In 1833 the railroad cut was begun, to carry the New York and Harlem Rail Road through Murray Hill ; the route under the most prominent obstacle in its right-of-way was opened 1 May 1834 ; then the locomotives, which had met the horse-cars that ran through the city's streets at the station at 27th Street, could pass the reduced hill ; by an act of 1850 the city pemitted to roof over the cut for the passage of steam locomotives.

Durham was a town in which a railroad ran through and still does today.

The railroad purchased right-of-way from both farmers, half from each-the east side from Cole and the west side from Owen-and ran tracks up the borderline between the two properties.

The name was changed to Baldwin in honor of Dr. Abel Seymour Baldwin, the president of the Florida, Atlantic and Gulf Central Railroad, a railroad that ran from Lake City to Jacksonville.

He deeded land to the railroad, surveyed business lots including hotels, mills, and blacksmith shops around the town where the railroad ran by the 1847 train depot.

Oakwood was named after the railroad tracks that ran, and still are running as of 2008, through both the City of Oakwood and Gainesville.

The second railroad ran east and west and was called the " Three I " or Illinois, Indiana, and Iowa Railroad, later the New York Central.

Both Scott's and Marshall's towns were orthogonal grids with north-south and east-west streets, but plan became still more complex when a later addition by Scott included Veto Street, which ran parallel to the railroad and at an odd angle to the earlier streets.

These faced a widened area of railroad land, which ran the full length of the Original Town.

The Terre Haute, Brazil and Eastern Railroad was a short-line railroad that once ran a tourist excursion called the Beaver Creek Express between Brazil and Limedale.

Sarah Collins Cuppy on the other hand, with her husband, ran a station on the underground railroad.

In 1911 the community got its own railroad with the opening of the Iowa & Omaha Shortline which ran 12 miles to Neola on the Wabash Railroad line southeast of Council Bluffs.

The city was named in honor of Charles Merriam, a one-time secretary / treasurer of the then Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf railroad which ran through the area.

The Baton Rouge-Hammond line was completed by the Illinois Central railroad during the first part of February, 1908 and the first train ran on Feb. 26.

* Peabody ( Area 9 ) is bordered on the north by railroad tracks, on the south by Concord Avenue, on the west by railroad tracks, and on the east by Massachusetts Avenue.

* North Cambridge ( Area 11 ) is bordered on the north by the Arlington and Somerville borders, on the south by railroad tracks, on the west by the Belmont border, and on the east by the Somerville border.

* Cambridge Highlands ( Area 12 ) is bordered on the north and east by railroad tracks, on the south by Fresh Pond, and on the west by the Belmont border.

* Strawberry Hill ( Area 13 ) is bordered on the north by Fresh Pond, on the south by the Watertown border, on the west by the Belmont border, and on the east by railroad tracks.

The portion of the railroad around the north shore of the lake is no longer intact.

Many parts of the railroad were treacherous, especially in the mountainous areas north of Dunsmuir.

The area had been claimed by Portugal, which had included it in its " Pink Map ", but this clashed with British aspirations to create a railroad link between Cairo and Cape Town, thereby linking its colonies from the north of Africa to the very south.

On the north it is bordered by a depression which is followed by the routes nationales 97 and 7 and the railroad line between Toulon and Nice.

This plot of land was located on both sides of the railroad station, roughly bounded by today's Sixth Street on the west, Aspen Street on the south, Willow Avenue on the east, and Takoma Avenue on the north.

Its first trip carried 600 containers between North Vancouver, British Columbia and Skagway, Alaska, on November 26, 1955 ; in Skagway, the containers were unloaded to purpose-built railroad cars for transport north to the Yukon, in the first intermodal service using trucks, ships and railroad cars.

Hill chose to build his railroad north of the competing Northern Pacific line, which had reached the Pacific Northwest over much more difficult terrain with more bridges, steeper grades, and tunnelling.

The Dunbar CB is nearest to Greencastle, which can be accessed via US 231 north, under the concrete railroad viaduct.

The portion of the Main Campus located west of Tech Drive and north of the railroad include all of the university's major athletic facilities except for J. C. Love Field.

The land east of Tech Drive and north of the railroad include the Lambright Intramural Center, J. C. Love Field, and the University Park Apartments.

It is bounded by the railroad to the west, Deotymy and Jana Pawła II streets to the north, the Słupia river to the east and the city boundary to the south.

This section of Route 35 follows the right-of-way of the former Pennsylvania Railroad Between Seaside Heights and Mantoloking, with the southbound side following the former railroad right-of-way north of Ortley Beach.

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 1887, John Weston and Frank Mondell found rich coal deposits north of Newcastle which caused a railroad to be built through the area.

As travel technology developed in the mid-19th century, Petersburg became established as a railroad center, with lines completed to Richmond to the north, Farmville and Lynchburg to the west, and Weldon, North Carolina to the south.

The famous railroad disaster which killed engineer Casey Jones took place in Yazoo County, just north of Vaughan, Mississippi, in 1900.

CSX Transportation operates a railroad line running from Danville, Illinois to Terre Haute ; this line runs most of the length of Vermillion County from north to south, passing through Rilesyburg, Cayuga, and Clinton before crossing the Wabash River.