McClellan, a young West Point graduate, railroad executive, and Pennsylvania Democrat, took several months to plan and attempt his Peninsula Campaign, longer than Lincoln wanted.

Each region wanted the railroad because of its benefits.

In 1889, Frank M. Brown wanted to build a railroad along the Colorado River to carry coal.

Hill also wanted control of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad because of its Midwestern lines and access to Chicago.

When the county was created, the founders wanted to include access to the transcontinental railroad, so a rectangular section was added that includes the railroad town of Truckee.

The railroad wanted to bring the track from Culloden to Knoxville, which was the most direct and economical route, but Crawford County rebelled.

The railroad wanted to use some of his land, and he agreed.

Tempe wanted to be on the railroad line and was very vociferous about its demands and rights.

When Patton heard that Chanute wanted to build a railroad in his general direction, he saw it as an opportunity to make use of his otherwise deserted land and struck a deal.

" There is also the often-repeated story that Scott had originally wanted the name to read " Chenowa " but the railroad had mistakenly dropped the letter " w ." This again is not true.

The railroad wanted to call the town Regier but Mr. Regier suggested three other possibilities: Elbing, Danzig and Marienburg, all cities in Prussia where he had lived.

The townspeople wanted to relocate the town to take advantage of the railroad but couldn't decide on a site.

The community was originally known as Texas, but a local landowner, Isaiah Toy, a descendant of the original Swedish settlers and a stockholder in the Camden and Amboy Railroad, who wanted to have a post office established in the community and convinced the railroad to change the name of the station in 1849 to Palmyra, which came from his love of ancient history.

Marquis de Mores wanted to ship refrigerated meat to Chicago via the railroad.

The railroad workers were from Pennsylvania and named the existing townsites what they wanted.

It was an important location because the railroad and Cumberland River were significant transportation routes which the Union Army wanted to control.

The legend goes that Gould wanted to bring his railroad through Jefferson but the town leaders refused because they had the river traffic.

Interests in Louisiana were especially adamant about this option, as they believed that any transcontinental railroad would divert commercial traffic away from the Mississippi and New Orleans, and they at least wanted to secure a southern route.

The railroad workers had used this spot for a camping place for the workmen-and people wanted to get near the railroad-so of land was bought for the town site.

When the surveyors for the Missouri Pacific Railroad came through, the local people and the railroad wanted to name the town in Dr. Lea's honor.

The developers of the town sites along the new railroad wanted to organize a town on a section four miles ( 6 km ) north of the present town of Abernathy.

When the nearby communities of Belleveu, Jamestown, Rocky Mount, and Salem were all bypassed by the railroad, Overton gained the businesses and people who wanted to benefit from the railroad lines.

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

If laying ties on a railroad track, which he once did for $1 an hour, paid more than playing right field for the Yankees, Maris would lay ties on a railroad track.

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.

* Gauntlet track, a section of two railroad tracks that overlap to allow them to pass a narrow bridge or tunnel in little more than the space of one track

Landis received national attention in 1907 when he fined Standard Oil of Indiana more than $ 29 million for violating federal laws forbidding rebates on railroad freight tariffs.

Though the railroad was still more useful for transportation of freight, passenger traffic was also growing.

Transport in Sudan during the early 1990s included an extensive railroad system that served the more important populated areas except in the far south, a meager road network ( very little of which consisted of all-weather roads ), a natural inland waterway — the Nile River and its tributaries — and a national airline that provided both international and domestic service.

" Lorry " has a more uncertain origin, but probably has its roots in the railroad industry, where the word is known to have been used in 1838 to refer to a type of truck ( a freight car as in British usage, not a bogie as in the American ), specifically a large flat wagon.

The transcontinental railroad slowly ended most of the far slower and more hazardous stagecoach lines and wagon trains that had preceded it.

He continued to search for a more practical route through the Sierras suitable for a railroad.

With the American Civil War raging and a secessionist movement in California gaining steam, the apparent need for the railroad became more urgent.

Missouri's advantages included that it had the only railroad to actually reach the Missouri River on its western border ( H & SJ ), was more centrally located for lines coming up from Texas and could offer a route servicing Denver, Colorado, the biggest city in the Great American Desert.

Under Durant's guidance the company was charging Union Pacific often twice or more the customary cost for track work ( thus in effect paying himself to build the railroad ).

* Pilotman, member of a railroad company's staff who travels on every train, and whose duties are to ensure that no more than one train is present in any given section of railroad tracks

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

Similar to other industrial cities in the U. S., Omaha suffered severe job losses in the 1950s, more than 10, 000 in total, as both the railroad and meatpacking industries restructured.

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.

A transcontinental railroad in the United States ' is any continuous rail line connecting a location on the U. S. Pacific coast with one or more of the railroads of the nation's eastern trunk line rail systems operating between the Missouri and / or Mississippi Rivers and the U. S Atlantic coast.

The coming of the railroad resulted in the end of most of the far slower and more hazardous stagecoach lines and wagon trains, and it led to a great decline of traffic on the Oregon and California Trail, which had helped populate much of the West.

Many of his Minnesota buildings are still standing, including more than a dozen private residences ( especially those on on St. Paul's Summit Avenue ), several churches featuring rich textures and colors, resort summer homes, warehouses, and railroad depots in Anoka, Willmar, and Little Falls.

Gilbert was one of the first celebrity architects in America, designing skyscrapers in New York City and Cincinnati, campus buildings at Oberlin College and the University of Texas, state capitols in Minnesota and West Virginia, the support towers of the George Washington Bridge, various railroad stations ( including the New Haven Union Station ), and the United States Supreme Court building in Washington, D. C .. His reputation declined among some professionals during the age of Modernism, but he was on the design committee that guided and eventually approved the modernist design of Manhattan's groundbreaking Rockefeller Center: when considering Gilbert's body of works as whole, it is more eclectic than many critics admit.