The solution reached in the agreement was more acceptable to the railroad than that originally included in a series of union demands.

With Beauregard's help, Johnston decided to concentrate forces with those formerly under Polk and now already under Beauregard's command at the strategically located railroad crossroads of Corinth, Mississippi, which he reached by a circuitous route.

The first railroad in Indiana reached Columbus from Madison, Indiana in 1844.

The railroad fostered the growth of the community into one of the largest communities in Indiana, and three more railroads reached the city by 1850.

By the end of 1909, an agreement had been reached providing for a reduction in the debt and the issuance of new 5 percent bonds: the bankers would control the Honduran railroad, and the United States government would guarantee continued Honduran independence and would take control of customer revenue.

While an " underground railroad " running south toward Florida, then a Spanish possession, existed from the late 17th century until shortly after the American Revolution, the network now generally known as the Underground Railroad was formed in the early 19th century, and reached its height between 1850 and 1860.

In 1890, the railroad reached town, which brought in more mines and brought out more ore.

The railroad reached Alamosa by 1878.

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.

Six months after the railroad reached Seattle came the depression called the Panic of 1893.

Although the first railroad had reached nearby Grafton in 1852, a narrow-gauge railroad was not laid through the County until the early 1880s ; a standard gauge line followed in the 1890s.

The first railroad reached Athens in 1857.

The Flagler railroad reached the area in the 1890s.

En route, they are told by casually met strangers that the railroad line has reached Abilene, Kansas, much closer than Missouri.

The railroad reached Presidio County in 1882 when the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway laid tracks through its northeastern corner.

The railroad eventually reached Ashland and Locust Gap via the Gordon Planes.

Plant's railroad line reached Tampa and its port shortly thereafter, finally connecting the small town to the nation's railroad system after years of efforts by local leaders.

The railroad reached Harrison County in 1869.

The first railroad through the county was the Toledo, Wabash and Western Railway ( later the Wabash Railroad ) which was built from the east across the northern part of the county and reached Attica in 1856 ; it continued west through Warren County and reached the Illinois state line the following year.

Manufacturing and textile production operations were the major industries in Clarke County, especially after the railroad reached Athens in 1841.

In 1913, a reorganized railroad, the Denver & Salt Lake, reached as far as Craig, the county seat, but no further.

George Bissell, a Yale University Chemistry professor, and Edwin L. Drake, a former railroad conductor, made the first successful use of a drilling rig on August 28, 1859 near Titusville, Pennsylvania.

The combination of railroad growth and the discovery of oil in nearby Titusville contributed greatly to Corry's development.

Flagler obtained a charter from the state of Florida authorizing him to build a railroad along the Indian River to Miami, and as the railroad progressed southward, cities such as New Smyrna and Titusville began to develop along the tracks.

The current alignment in Titusville ( including the railroad overpass ) was built in 1936 ; previously it may have used almost the current alignment, instead entering from the north via Norwood Avenue and then heading east on Garden Street.

George Bissell, a Yale University chemistry professor, and Edwin L. Drake, a former railroad conductor, made the first successful use of a drilling rig on August 28, 1859 at Titusville, Pennsylvania.

In 1886, railroad magnate Collis Potter Huntington founded Newport News Shipbuilding, which was responsible for building six major World War I-era battleships for the U. S. Navy from 1907 – 1923.

With increased railroad traffic, in 1886, Leffert Buck replaced Roebling's wood and stone bridge with the predominantly steel bridge that still carries trains over the Niagara River today.

By 1886, Flagstaff was the largest city on the railroad line between Albuquerque and the west coast of the United States.

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

The third courthouse was built in 1886, in a new section of town that grew around the newly constructed railroad.

Roberta started out in 1886 as a railroad office and warehouse " Roberta, ca.

His first books had to do with railroad problems ( Turnouts ; Exact Formulae for Their Determination, 1884, and Track, A Complete Manual of Maintenace of Way, 1886 ), and this interest in rail transportation continued throughout his life.

The first railroad through Sylacauga was the Anniston and Atlantic Railroad on December 1, 1886.

By the 1890s, the railroad traffic and the resulting activity in Wynne made it a more vibrant town than the town of Vanndale, Ark, which had been the county seat since 1886.

In 1886 a new school was built, along with a post office and railroad depot.

When Henry Plant's railroad to Tampa began service in 1886, Tampa took shipping away from Cedar Key, causing an economic decline in the area.

Meservey was founded in 1886, shortly after a railroad line was built connecting Mason City and Fort Dodge.

The Crooked Creek railroad was widened to standard gauge in 1880 and a line to Webster City was built in 1886.

The railroad reached Hoisington in the fall of 1886, and the settlement was incorporated as a city in 1887.

In the early fall of 1886, the town was selected as a division point of the Burlington railroad.

In 1886, taking advantage of the region's agricultural success and the proximity of the railway, Gardanier and Ayres built the first grain elevator in Beemer, located about 600 feet east of Main Street between Front Street and the railroad tracks.

By 1886 a railroad had been built to connect the glass factory with the Iron Mountain Railroad at Silica, Missouri.

A railroad sign posted in the 1880s labeled the station as " Bay Head ," and the name stuck when the borough was incorporated in 1886.

The town of Benson, which derives its name from early settler Alfred Monroe (" Mim ") Benson, owes much of its historical development to the railroad line which passed through the present location in town in 1886 on its route between Fayetteville and Contentnea.

In 1886 the first railroad station was located on the north side of the tracks, west of Main Street, and remained there until 1962 when all railroad services ceased.

On December 29, 1886, the Tennessee Midland Railway received a charter to build a railroad from Memphis, Tennessee to the Virginia state line.

In 1886, the first railroad came to town, and the population exceeded one thousand by the end of the decade.

The railroad came to town in 1880, and the post office in 1886.