As new areas were explored, it was usually the gold ( placer and then load ) and then silver that were taken first, with other metals often waiting for railroads or canals.

After the war, railroads rejuvenated overworked and neglected fleets with fast and often luxurious streamliners – epitomized by the Super Chief and California Zephyr – which inspired the last major resurgence in passenger rail travel.

The Staggers Act followed the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976 ( often called the " 4R Act "), which reduced federal regulation of railroads and authorized implementation details for Conrail, the newly-created northeastern railroad system.

* cheap transportation, via rivers and railroads, which often followed rivers ;

His work with the railroads in this area is often cited as central to the establishment of the Standard Time Zones system.

Many other communities in the state were taking similar action, something most of them came to regret: the bonds were quickly sold in the Europe or the East and the taxpayers of towns and townships were forced to pay for railroads that often provided indifferent service.

As the industrial age progressed, bridges replaced ferries, and railroads replaced canals, often built right on top of the canal right of way along the river.

For instance, models of people as well as both domestic and wild animals are often produced for display in model cities or railroads to provide a measure of detail or realism, and scaled relative to the trains, buildings, and other accessories of a certain line of models.

North American railroads until the mid-to late-20th century used rails long so they could be carried to and from a worksite in gondola cars ( open wagons ), often long ; as gondola sizes increased, so did rail lengths.

However, as railroads merge or buy each other, duplicate and less profitable rights of way often are sold to new short line railroad companies.

This specialized trucking that runs between ocean ports, rail terminals, and inland shipping docks, is often called drayage, and is typically provided by dedicated drayage companies or by the railroads.

There was no government assistance, but often northern industries, such as the railroads, meatpacking, and stockyards recruited people.

For instance, 19th century mail delivery often relied on a mix of private ships, steamboats, stagecoaches, railroads, and other transportation organizations to transport mail.

Although the parallel steam railroads were often annoyed by the competition, the interurbans could be valuable to them as connections.

Interurban lines that have survived to the present day often evolved into commuter railroads or freight short lines.

The often unpalatable concessions — coupled with memories of the violence and tension during the strike — soured relations between the railroads and the shopmen for years.

The terms " mogul ", " tycoon " and " baron " were often attributed to late 19th and early 20th century North American business magnates in extractive industries such as mining, logging and petroleum, transportation fields such as shipping and railroads, manufacturing, including steelmaking, banking, and newspaper publishing.

Today, S gauge and O gauge railroads are still considered toy trains even by their adherents and are often accessorized with semi-scale model buildings by Plasticville or K-Line ( who owns the rights to the Plasticville-like buildings produced by Marx from the 1950s to the 1970s ).

Development along our nation ’ s estuaries often results in hydrologic restrictions from roads, dykes, and railroads.

The establishment of joint-stock banks in Switzerland such as Swiss Bank's earliest predecessors ( often structured as a Swiss Verein ) was driven by the industrialization of the country and the construction of railroads in the mid-19th century.

The term railroad is used almost exclusively in the U. S. to describe conventional rail transport systems that are part of the national rail network, which until the mid-20th century were often described as steam railroads.

The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, often abbreviated as Santa Fe, was one of the larger railroads in the United States, chartered in February 1859.

In North America, little used branch lines are often spun off from larger railroads to become new common carrier short-line railroads of their own.

Tukwila's location at the confluence of rivers, freeways and railroads has determined its destiny as a center of commerce.

The Southern Pacific Company owned or controlled both of these Texas-Louisiana railroads, but the question of which subsidiary owned No. 246 is not unimportant, because it would have determined how the locomotive was lettered.

He was the Democratic party leader in the United States Senate, the chairman of the Committee on Territories, an avid promoter of railroads, an aspirant to the presidency, and, above all, a fervent believer in popular sovereignty: the policy of letting the residents of a territory decide whether or not they would permit slavery to exist.

Economists and historians debate whether it crippled the railroads, giving so much advantage to the shippers that a giant unregulated trucking industry — undreamed of in 1906 — took away their business.

Two railroad lines intersect on the northwest side of town ; the question of whether the state of Minnesota could order installation of an interchange track between the two independent railroads led to a 1900 U. S. Supreme Court decision which affirmed that the state could indeed order the establishment of the " Hanley Falls Wye " for the public convenience, despite the railroads ' opposition.

Thus, an important decision in the game is whether to buy a variety of railroads in order to gain access to all areas of the map for oneself, or to buy railroads in a given area in order to monopolize it and collect the valuable use fees from opponents.

At one point, to determine whether railroads could safely trim staff as they proposed, Osborne dressed as a hobo and rode the rails and was once arrested by police in Syracuse, New York in the course of his sleuthing.

In 1918, A. H. Smith, the Eastern Director of the United States Railroad Administration and the president of the New York Central Railroad, asked whether or not the proposed facility could be sufficiently enlarged to include the railroads using the lakefront station.

Originally, at least in the United States, it was not clear whether railroads were going to be run like turnpikes, in which any paying customer could use the road.

In addition, railroads crisscrossed the town during the same era, leading to the development of Porter Square as well as the creation of neighboring town Somerville from the formerly rural parts of Charlestown.

* 1968 – An earthquake rated at 6. 8 on the Richter Scale destroys the Australian town of Meckering, Western Australia, and it also ruptures all nearby main highways and railroads.

Factors leading to abandonment of towns include depleted natural resources, economic activity shifting elsewhere, railroads and roads bypassing or no longer accessing the town, human intervention, disasters, massacres, wars, and the shifting of politics or fall of empires.

The town and its environs quickly grew with the railroads, becoming a major rail terminal in the late 1860s and 1870s.

Bartlesville became an oil boom town only after 1900, when the nearby Osage County oil fields were developed and railroads were built into the area.

The railroads helped make Winchester a transportation, commercial, and educational center, and gave rise to small service communities such as Hedges Station, six miles east of Winchester, and Ford, a once-prosperous mill town on the Kentucky River.

From its beginning, Jesup has been a railway town and as early as 1891, the town ’ s population was essentially connected to the railroads in some way.

Eventually the continued development of the railroads led to an influx of railroad workers who overruled the others in the city and left " Meridian " on the station permanently, and the town was officially incorporated as Meridian on February 10, 1860.

Before the steamboat era faded, Camden had become a railroad town — served by the mainline of the Texas and St. Louis ( Cotton Belt ) and by branch lines of the Missouri Pacific and the Rock Island railroads.

In the 1880s the indigenous Cahuilla tribe sold their land plots to the railroads for new lands east of the current town site, and in the 1890s, a few hundred traqueros took up settlement along the tracks.

The loss of a lumber mill that made cypress " flitches " for citrus crates and discontinuation of two railroads which bisected the town led to a steady population decline.

Scott anticipated the place where the railroads would cross and platted the town which he called Chenoa.

The town had two sets of Nickel Plate railroad tracks and a depot until the nationalization of the railroads in the 1970s.

In 1827, Seth Leavenworth pushed the state legislature to establish a rail link between his town and the new state capitol ( only recently relocated to Indianapolis from nearby Corydon ), believing that railroads were more efficient and desirable than canals ( though trains at this time moved not much faster than barges.

Today, Norfolk Southern has the biggest railroad presence in town, although Elkhart has 2 other railroads ( Shortline-Elkhart and Western ( operated by Pioneer Railcorp ) and Regional-Grand Elk ( operated by Watco ).

The town ’ s close association with railroads is even reflected in its name.

It became only natural for railroaders using these maps to refer to this area as “ Griffith Section .” Since railroads dominated the town, the name stuck.

Currently only the EJ & E and Canadian National ( successor to the Grand Trunk ) railroads travel through the town.

Bernhardt Kautz moved here from Pennsylvania, before the arrival of the railroads and established a farm where the town now sits.

It is believed by some area residents that the town got its nickname " The Hub City " because the two railroads intersected near the Ohio and Indiana state line.

However, when the railroads did arrive, and failed to pass through the town, it spelled the eventual end of the vital river traffic, and of the importance of the town of Perrysville.