After a series of battles and having taken a railroad junction near Jackson, Grant went on to defeat Confederate General John C. Pemberton at the Battle of Champion Hill.

On July 1, 1922, 400, 000 railroad workers and shopmen went on strike over hourly wages reduced by seven cents and a 12 hour-day workweek.

The initial construction of railroad went over land that Durant owned around Omaha.

The time and the cost for transit dropped as regular paddle wheel steamships and sailing ships went from ports on the east coast and New Orleans, Louisiana to Colón, Panama ($ 80 –$ 100 ), across the Isthmus of Panama by railroad ($ 25 ) and by paddle wheel steamships and sailing ships to ports in California and Oregon ($ 100 –$ 150 ).

He was not as successful in railroad promoting as in war, and under his direction, the company went bankrupt.

Meanwhile, nearly every other transcontinental railroad went bankrupt.

With 1901 and the start of the new century, James Hill now had control of both the Great Northern Railway, and the Northern Pacific ( which he had obtained with the help of his friend J. P. Morgan, when that railroad went bankrupt in the depression of the mid-1890s ).

While some funds were earmarked for railroad and subway companies, the largest share went to highways.

This railroad bypassed Jacksonville and instead went through Medford, located five miles ( 8 km ) east of Jacksonville.

Being situated at the terminus of the railroad, military wagon trains went out from Rolla to all Union armies stationed southwest in Arkansas, Hartville, and Springfield and northwest to the Linn Creek area, now known as Lake of the Ozarks.

This railroad went bankrupt in the economic troubles that led to the Great Depression of the 1930s.

The railroad went bankrupt and ceased operations in 1920, but the hotel remained and, although greatly remodeled, is still standing today, between State Route 1 and Main Street.

In 1887 the railroad finally went through to Los Angeles, and in 1901 to San Francisco: Santa Barbara was now easily accessible by land and by sea, and subsequent development was brisk.

Once the railroad went through, Mackville inhabitants would say, " meet me at the woods ", thus the beginnings of present day Atwood.

" He went on to explain that, while the there was no large body of timber nearby, coal will be furnished at twelve cents a bushell and cheep lumber, poplar, walnut, and oak will also be brought in by the railroad.

In 1905 a large part of downtown burned and in 1917 the original railroad station went up in flames.

Cost overruns killed the line after one year and the railroad went bankrupt and was sold.

Lots went on sale in August 1871, and businessmen flocked from the Copper Country and Marquette to open general merchandise stores, a general hardware and iron warehouse, three bakeries, a shaving and hair dressing salon, paint shop, tobacco and cigar store, several hotels, a dance hall, a railroad office, and a bank, among others.

As went the church and railroad, so went the town of Adrian.

The town also grew from the influx of railroad laborers who built the tracks that went through the village.

Lonsdale was platted by the railroad when it went through in 1902.

Without the railroad base, the population of Metolius went into decline.

Less than a century ago, Sharpsburg was divided into two sections because of a railroad track that went through the location where Kennedy Park currently sits.

The Junior Chamber of Commerce in Sharpsburg went to the railroad company as well as the Heinz family to try to change something about this.

Often, threading through the overcast, he was forced to fly close to the ground by a low ceiling, skimming above the Winooski or the White River along the line of the broken railroad.

-- to lunge anxiously through crowded streets to railroad stations and, at odd hours of night, drive from smaller stations to distant homes, probably through rain or, in November, something worse.

The unusually large flanges on the steel wheels guide the bogie through standard railroad switches, and in addition keep the train from derailing in case the tires deflate.

That same year, the mainline of the transcontinental railroad into Oakland was re-routed, putting the right-of-way along the bay shore through Ocean View.

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.

A locomotive moves across the outfield and whistles after home runs, paying homage to a Houston history which had eleven railroad company lines running through the city by 1860.

After regaining his position, he saw the railroad through to completion in 1885, a means of transportation and freight conveyance that helped unite Canada as one nation.

The Grand River goes through the outskirts of the park, the Penn Central Transportation Company railroad track also goes through the park.

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

Morse also at one time adopted Wheatstone and Carl August von Steinheil's idea of broadcasting an electrical telegraph signal through a body of water or down steel railroad tracks or anything conductive.

Before reaching the Lebanese border and the Anti-Lebanon Mountains, the Jabal an Nusayriyah range terminates, leaving a corridor — the Homs Gap — through which run the highway and railroad from Homs to the Lebanese port of Tripoli.

* 1848 – Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage survives a-plus iron rod being driven through his head ; the reported effects on his behavior and personality stimulate thinking about the nature of the brain and its functions.

Israel has declared that it will construct a railroad through the Negev desert, to compete with the Suez canal and that the construction will partly be financed by China.

Throughout the 1850s, Judah was known as " Crazy Judah " for his idea to build a railroad through and over the wall of mountains known as the Sierra Nevada, a project which many people at the time considered impossible.

The Southern Michigan Railroad Society, an operating railroad museum, runs through Tecumseh.

The President personally engaged in talks with the Chinese to provide American assistance in the expansion of the Chinese railroad industry ; this was accomplished through participation in the multi-national Hukuang Loan.

The railroad passed through his property and the railway station was placed near his plantation home.

Later, the BSAC built railroad to transport the copper through Mozambique.

TAZARA, a railroad to the Tanzanian port of Dar es Salaam, built with Chinese assistance, reduced Zambian dependence on railroad lines south to South Africa and west through an increasingly war ravaged Angola.

* September 13 – Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage survives a 3-foot-plus iron rod being driven through his head.

Although the railroad was to go bankrupt, he was convinced that a properly financed railroad could pass from Sacramento through the Sierra Nevada mountains to reach the Great Basin and hook up with rail lines coming from the East.