His oldest son, Béla Bartók, Jr., remained in Hungary where he survived the war and later worked as a railroad official until his retirement in the early 1980s.

Two of the most scenic routes survived in operation by the D & RGW, until they were sold to tourist railroad operators.

Stockton survived & grew during the thirteen years from founding until the arrival of the railroad in 1885.

The town survived and grew because of the railroad, but when they took out the railroad the town died.

During the 1980s Edina survived economic distress, drought and a consequent crisis in water supply, decline in population, and the loss of its railroad.

In 1950, the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina decommissioned the railroad at Elk Park, ending rail service in Avery County ; though it has survived as a town unlike neighboring Cranberry.

Beyond the railroad track, projecting into the river at 54th Street, was Mott's Point, with an 18th-century Mott family house, surrounded by gardens, that was inhabited by members of the family until 1884 and survived until 1895.

Though the granite soon proved too unforgiving and expensive for track, most of the B & O's monumental bridges have survived to this day, and many are still in active railroad use by CSX.

Most railroad companies that once existed have either closed, been assimilated by a larger company, or participated in a " merger of equals " in which neither company's name survived unaltered ( an example of the latter being the Burlington Northern / Santa Fe merger, which produced the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway ).

The ARU vanished and the traditional railroad brotherhoods survived, but avoided strikes.

Investors balked and the CGW stayed independent, but even as the Great Western survived and thrived during the 1950s, it was becoming increasingly clear that the American railroad climate was changing.

* John Borland Thayer Jr. " Jack ", passenger and survived of R. M. S Titanic, son of John Borland Thayer II, President of the railroad company of Pennsylvania.

In 1848 the railroad built the Starrucca Viaduct, a stone railroad bridge over Starrucca Creek in Lanesboro, Pennsylvania which has survived and is still in use today.

The railroad had survived the economic depression of 1873 and was seeing its business recover.

Twenty-three passengers survived ; they were pulled from the wreckage by railroad employees who immediately rushed from the hotel and other buildings where they had been staying.

Corse's men survived the sustained two-hour attack against the main fortification, the Star Fort on the western side of the railroad cut, but were pinned down and Tourtellotte sent reinforcements from the eastern fort.

As a result, several potato farms went out of business ; and those that survived distrusted rail service and never returned to using the railroad.

* September – Panic of 1857 begins: Speculation in U. S. railroad shares and collapse of the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company trigger a financial crisis which will extend to Europe.

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

A deep national economic depression following the Panic of 1873 led to major Democratic gains in the North, the collapse of many railroad schemes in the South, and a growing sense of frustration in the North.

The limitation on railroad rates depreciated the value of railroad securities, a factor in causing the Panic of 1907.

The coming of the railroad spurred growth of the village of L ' Anse in 1871, which prospered for a couple of years until the Panic of 1873.

But the Panic of 1873 doomed the railroad, and Banks went on the lecture circuit and was elected to the Massachusetts Senate.

Difficulties in management and the influence of the Panic of 1873 led to the railroad seeking bankruptcy protection in June 1875.

After the Panic of 1873, when many railroad companies defaulted in the payment of interest, he joined several committees of German bond holders, doing the major part of the committee work, and in April 1874 he returned to the United States to represent his constituents, and especially to execute an arrangement with the Oregon and California Railroad Company.

The Panic of 1893 created a crisis for the railroad companies.

The Panic began with a crisis in the overextended railroad industry, when the brokerage house Jay Cooke & Company found itself unable to sell enough Northern Pacific Railroad bonds to meet its financial obligations, leading to a default on loans and setting off a financial chain reaction.

Ezra Cornell entered the railroad business, but fared poorly due to the Panic of 1873.

Also this year, Dewey lost his entire investment in the railroad line during the Panic of 1873.

With Foster ’ s support, Brice managed to guide the railroad through the Panic of 1873 and expand it into Lima and other areas.

The Panic of 1873 caused the railroad to be sold.

The growth continued when a railroad was built through town in 1893.

This 1893 sketch of the Art Institute of Chicago shows most of today's Grant Park still submerged under Lake Michigan with railroad tracks running along the shoreline behind the Museum

Famed railroad engineer J. L. " Casey " Jones moved from Jackson, Tennessee to Water Valley in 1893.

In 1893, the railroad ceased operations, and tracks were removed in 1910.

In 1893, Dothan secured a stop on the first railroad to be built in this region.

The railroad was built in 1893 along with the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Depot.

Following a damaging fire in 1885, the entire town of Ash Fork burned to the ground in 1893, and was rebuilt on the other side of the railroad tracks, where it remains today.

B. Stickney planned a large railroad transfer center which included what became the northern part of Burbank, but his ideas were never realized due to an economic depression in 1893.

By the 1880s, several factories and businesses existed, despite the fact that the railroad would not roll into town until 1893.

In December 1893, a railroad agent named Sam Peterson, who was a native of Switzerland, had the name changed to Engadine, after the scenic Swiss valley.

In 1893, the railroad came to New Boston, and farm produce was sent by rail to city markets.

Formerly known as Half Way Hollow Hills, West Deer Park ( 1875 ), and Wyandance ( 1893 ), the area of scrub oak and pine barrens south of the southern slope of Half Hollow terminal moraine was named Wyandanch in 1903 by the Long Island Rail Road ( LIRR ) to honor Chief Wyandanch and end confusion between travelers getting off at the West Deer Park and Deer Park railroad stations.

On this line, Kipton was the site of a famous train wreck on April 19, 1891, which was caused by railroad engineers ' watches not being in sync and led to the adoption of stringent quality-control standards for railroad chronometers in 1893.

The railroad said it sold eight thousand tickets to Kildare for September 16, 1893, the opening day of the Cherokee Strip land run.

Meanwhile, the railroad station at Kirk had been closed and so the name “ Newkirk .” was chosen on November 8, 1893.

Prior to the opening of the Cherokee Strip in 1893, Capron, Oklahoma was first known as " Warren ", a small cattle station on the main line of the Santa Fe railroad.

In January 1893, the tannery was destroyed by fire and rebuilt on the present site north of the Fall Brook railroad, beginning operations November 11, 1893.

A railroad station opened later that year and a post office followed in 1893.

Great Northern Railway completed its railroad line between St. Paul, Minn. and Seattle in 1893.

Between 1891 and 1893, Rock Island became a town of considerable importance for the railroad.

The railroad came to Sheridan in 1893, and since that time Big Horn has been a satellite community of Sheridan.

Residents moved to set up a new town site on the railroad in 1893, and in the early 1890s real estate developers built a large hotel on the cove.