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Author Gregg Turner, a former director of the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society at Harvard Business School and a lifelong train enthusiast, has written several books and numerous articles on American railroad history. The Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, Inc., founded in 1921, is the oldest railroad history organization in North America, and among the first anywhere to pursue formal studies in the history of technology. The Society promotes research and encourages preservation of…

The transportation industry has a rich history of regulation in the United States surrounding the railroads that most grade school students learn about. The legacy of the transportation industry is rife with antitrust cases and the struggle of the government to protect consumers across state lines. Within transportation lies the automotive industry; which has dealerships in nearly every city and state in the country making regulation not only a national issue but a state and municipal category.…

an influential person in the history of engineering. An influential inventor that has affected our lives is George Stephenson as he is mentioned for being the creator of inner city railways and transport. With this idea in mind, he made the first locomotive that was used in a commercial sense. As a result of…

In the first chapter in Railway, George Revill opens his volume on the history of the railway with a recounting on the associations between the landscape and the railway and the emergence of tourism geared to railroad travel . Revill traces this history from the establishment of the public steam-powered railway between Liverpool and Manchester which opened in 1830 to the proliferation of railroads in America , and due to the spread of this technology, greater travel distances became more…

North America is the land mass ranging from Panama and continuing North to Alaska and Greenland. North America also accounts for all of the islands in the Caribbean and in total has twenty-three associated countries. Rail transportation in the United States has been a staple point of industry which has made America into the world’s leading union; however, rail has been forgotten about for many decades. As previously mentioned, America had 408,773 km of Class I rail in 1916. One-hundred years…

New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad Company 1893-1902 New Orleans City Railroad Company 1860-1883 New Orleans City and Lake Railroad 1883-1892 New Orleans Traction Company 1892-1899 New Orleans City Railroad 1899-1902 Magazine Street Railroad Company 1866 Crescent City Railroad Company 1866-1892 New Orleans Traction Company 1892-1902 St. Charles Street Railroad Company 1866-1904 Canal and Claiborne Streets Railroad Company 1867-1899 absorbed by the NO&CRy New Orleans and…

issue at all. The unemployed people that were responsible for keeping the highways running will be able to get jobs on the new railroads. As for the individuals that were responsible for manufacturing the semi-trucks they will be able to build locomotives and service them as well. If you were not worried about losing your job then you were probably worried about losing your land. Just like a public roadway the interconnected railways will use public and private land. Eminent domain will be used…

local distribution centers throughout the US. Trains have greatly affected cultures, economies, and wars; and will continue to do so into the future. To prove that we must take a journey through time back to the early 1800s. The first steam locomotive was built in 1804 by Richard Trevithick in Britain. Since then trains have drastically changed the world we live in. The first big event in the timeline of how trains affected the world is that they were a part of and helped make the…

This past summer, NBCUniversal and Millennial Trains Project (MTP) awarded $25,000 to six innovative and civic-minded entrepreneurs through NBCU-MTP Open Possibilities Impact Grant. The Millennial Trains Project is a movement that leads young entrepreneurs, artists, and innovators on transcontinental train journeys where they work to address societal challenges by engaging in meaningful dialogue and drawing inspiration from cities and citizens across America. The NBCU-MTP Impact Grant helped…

railways were built in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. The first locomotive used on railways came from England in 1829. The first locomotive to ever carry people in the United States reached fifteen miles per hour and it carried thirty people. By 1840, railroad tracks in the United States reached almost three thousand miles. Iron rails were developed instead of wood and helped to carry the weight of large, steam powered locomotives. Other changes helped the growth of railroads between 1840 and…