American Railway Union

governments. In addition, the public interests could be protected since the consistent perfecting railways system and facilities due to enough finance support. The Canadian officials play an essential role in protecting the national fundamental interests as well as adjusting different parties’ interests. With the mature of the Canadian railway system, the officials began to loosen the control to the railway companies and reduced the policies intervention to some extent. The loosen control of…

Historically, the concept of war was viewed as a conflict between nations or political parties fighting against each other to gain what they believe are rightfully theirs. There are many ideologies and different perspectives an individual has towards the concept of warfare. For example, war can emotionally scar soldiers for life by making them incapable to perform daily activities alone and thus, they need social support to help them lead a normal life. In addition to this, an individual can…

Benton, Attached are the documents and spreadsheets I put together today that we discussed this morning. The first document, Annual Depreciation Expense per Locomotive, shows various methods used to find rates and calculate leasing costs for locomotives. Pages 2-5 also provide example documentation for these rates. In this case the UP Depreciation Expense exceeds the AAR’s West Index in some cases, while CSXT’s expenses are significantly lower than the AAR’s East Index. The next document is a…

In 1875 traveling along the railway was anything but luxurious and the food options were atrocious. Besides the fact that there were very few restaurants options near railway stops the food offered was often rancid and took so long to be served customers didn’t have time to eat it. These existing restaurants weren’t concerned about one-overing their customer because they would never see them again. Fred Harvey was one of the first to recognize this unmet need and he capitalized on it. Harvey…

A series of make shift dams and flumes are in place on the Blackstone River as it heads towards Blackstone Harbour from Crane used to control the log jams and to get the lumber up to Parry Sound. Also the river between Crane and Blackstone already had its first of several dams placed midway on its length. The Conger Lumber Co. operates throughout the area as the century headed towards its end. Other private interest companies such as Rankin Bros. subcontracting with Conger Lumber and later the…

This was the case in 1885 when the government of Canada defeated the Metis resistance and gained control of their land, but this was necessary in order to complete the Canadian Pacific Railway. In 1871 British Columbia joined confederation, but with the promise that a transcontinental railway would be built within 10 years of them joining. On June 28, 1886, the first train left Montreal and arrived at Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4, 1886. By 1891 the CPR had secured a contract…

Toll-gating is a procedure in which a person or company receiving a government contract is expected to forward a percentage of the profits to the party The Beauharnois Scandal of 1931 is an example of Toll-gating in Canadian politics. This scandal involved building and financing a huge hydro-electric project on the St. Lawrence river and a secret $700,000 payment to the Liberal Party. Bribery is an offering or accepting of illegal payments of money, goods or services in exchange for favours…

describes the ability of producing 9,870 bushels of grain in 1871 on only two hundred and ninety acres of land. According to Hamilton, the “average production of wheat is thirty and forty bushels to the acre,” while vegetables and fruit grow “luxuriantly” and to a “wonderful size.” While work was required for the production of these crops, it is presented as almost minuscule to the natural advantage that the provinces soil and climate offers. Unfortunately, Hamilton’s depiction was far from…

when you first arrive at university, transitioning over to their type of learning changes the way that most first year students must structure themselves and their time many realize that the work load has increased and that they must take on the responsibility for scheduling study and leisure times effectively the transition to lecture halls and lectures that involve a high level of note taking may be new to many first years, this is usually due to the pace at which lectures are presented and…

As a body which was set to oversee development of the railway system, the Railway Investigation Office had the main function of carrying out studies, applying the results gotten from the studies and testing out the materials. In 1913, it became known as the Research Institute before it was restructured in 1942 as the Railway Technical Research Institute. The standards of the railway in Japan had fallen behind those of other railways around the world by 1945 (Seojima 5). This realization prompted…