Trains and railroads have been existing for a long time. They have done so much wonders in our lives. My paper will be saying a lot about trains and railroads. My platform will be consisting of the “Transcontinental Railroad”, also “The Transformers” within the railroads. It will also be containing facts about “Railroads In The 20th Century”, I will be discussing railroads in the 1900’s and also talking about the Golden Age. I am also going to be talking about the Maglev Train.
The Transcontinental Railroad was constructed passing the western half of America and it was put together between 1863 and 1869. The railroad was 1,776 miles long and it served for the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States to be connected by rail for the …show more content…
Railroads in the 20th century were well entrenched as the primary mode of transportation that it seemed rails poked into every small community and area of the country, particularly in the Midwest and Northeast. Railroading in the 1890’s, you would see east-west and north-south main lines in operation lines no less than five routes connecting the west coast with Midwest and Deep South. Revenues by this time had topped one billion dollars with three quarters of a million workers employed in the industry. By the 20th century signaled the railroad industry's zenith in terms of size and reach as traffic and rails were slowly lost following 1920 which accelerated with the coming of the depression. while the railroad industry would see its record mileage in 1916 of 254,037 after that year mileage slowly declined and wouldn’t stop through the end of the century. (The 1900s, Railroads In The 20th Century. 3). Also, the railroad industry’s “Golden Age”, or that time period when railroads were the dominate mode of transportation, ended roughly around 1920 when other modes of transportation began to slowly entrench on the iron horse. The first of these laws to pass was the Elkins Act of 1903, signed by President Theodore Roosevelt, which he increased the restrictions of rebate railroads received. Soon after in 1906 the Hepburn Act was passed giving the Interstate Commerce Commission more power over the business also the ability to set freight rates. There are different types of trains, for example the Maglev train. Maglev trains have been in Japan since the 1970s, and a Japanese train set a speed record of 344 miles per hour in 1998. In Germany, a Maglev train line is being constructed between Hamburg and Berlin, it is hoped to be done in 2005. A downside to the Maglev trains is the cost of building the guideways; in the United States it would probably cost between 10 to 12 million
The Transcontinental Railroad was constructed passing the western half of America and it was put together between 1863 and 1869. The railroad was 1,776 miles long and it served for the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States to be connected by rail for the …show more content…
Railroads in the 20th century were well entrenched as the primary mode of transportation that it seemed rails poked into every small community and area of the country, particularly in the Midwest and Northeast. Railroading in the 1890’s, you would see east-west and north-south main lines in operation lines no less than five routes connecting the west coast with Midwest and Deep South. Revenues by this time had topped one billion dollars with three quarters of a million workers employed in the industry. By the 20th century signaled the railroad industry's zenith in terms of size and reach as traffic and rails were slowly lost following 1920 which accelerated with the coming of the depression. while the railroad industry would see its record mileage in 1916 of 254,037 after that year mileage slowly declined and wouldn’t stop through the end of the century. (The 1900s, Railroads In The 20th Century. 3). Also, the railroad industry’s “Golden Age”, or that time period when railroads were the dominate mode of transportation, ended roughly around 1920 when other modes of transportation began to slowly entrench on the iron horse. The first of these laws to pass was the Elkins Act of 1903, signed by President Theodore Roosevelt, which he increased the restrictions of rebate railroads received. Soon after in 1906 the Hepburn Act was passed giving the Interstate Commerce Commission more power over the business also the ability to set freight rates. There are different types of trains, for example the Maglev train. Maglev trains have been in Japan since the 1970s, and a Japanese train set a speed record of 344 miles per hour in 1998. In Germany, a Maglev train line is being constructed between Hamburg and Berlin, it is hoped to be done in 2005. A downside to the Maglev trains is the cost of building the guideways; in the United States it would probably cost between 10 to 12 million