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Have you ever thought about why The United States has progressed to where it is today? There are several inventions that have changed the world but one invention is often forgot about: Railroads. Railroads are interesting to study according to the following information: struggles before the railroads were built, the invention of it, struggles with it and its fixes, the Transcontinental Railroads, modern day trains and tracks, and how the railroads shaped Texas. Before the railroads were invented…

The Atlanta streetcar was introduced to Atlanta in December 2014 after phasing out since 1949. The streetcar has twelve initial stops. These stops include stops at Centennial Olympic Park, Carnegie at Spring, Peachtree Center, Woodruff Park, Auburn at Piedmont, Dobbs Plaza, King Historic District, Edgewood at Hilliard, Sweet Auburn Market, Hurt Park, Park Place and Luckie at Cone. The waiting stations consist of a bench that could fit approximately 6 people. The Atlanta streetcar is a great…

The “Men Who Built America” revolutionized our country. Architecture, transportation, and housing was forever changed when Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and Henry Ford decided to take action. Their minds thought alike, for they all had the same movement: to make their industry a success. The men who built America were Captains of Industry, or put simply: beneficial to America and its future. The chain of historic events…

Antitrust Act was the first initiative to stop abusive companies and remains the most important.(Sherman Act ) This act allowed the government to pursue any actions that enable a company to stay in power using unconventional methods and settled in court. Law did dissolve the trusts that allowed. Trusts used various ways to eliminates competition. Either by buying others out, forcing consumers to sign a contract, briefly undercutting their prices, and using intimidation and violence.(Sherman Act)…

The Underground Railroad was a chain of safe houses during the 1900’s for slaves trying to escape to Canada for freedom from their masters. Without the abolitionists hard work the Underground Railroad might have not been a success. Harriet Tubman had helped the Underground Railroads cause by saving slaves and bringing them to the free states. Thomas Garrett had hid runaway slaves and contacted William Still to tell him that new slaves would arrive. William Still had kept runaway slaves in his…

benefited tremendously. The building of the railroad dropped the general cost of shipping domestically as well as nationally. In the 1860’s to ship by wagon it cost 5 times more than it would by rail. With the price difference, and the fact with shipping by wagon it would remarkably take much longer, shipping by rail became the most efficient solution.…

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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…

BART Bay Area Rapid Transit, known by the acronym BART, is the main rail transportation system for the San Francisco Bay Area. It was envisioned as early as 1946 but the construction of the original system began in the 1960s. Origins and planning The idea of an underwater electric rail tube was first proposed in the early 1900s by Francis "Borax" Smith. There were also plans for a third-rail powered subway line (Twin Peaks Tunnel) under Market Street in the 1910s. Much of BART's current…

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.…