Railroads Online puts you in the role of a pioneer helping to shape the future of America. Build tracks, traverse vast landscapes in various steam locomotives, transport goods to earn money, and customize and buy new locomotives and equipment as you grow to become a railroad tycoon....
steam engines of locomotives along the routes of the rapidly expanding railway network, allowed mining activities in places where it would have been difficult to do so otherwise, like in the guano islands off the coast of Peru, and provided the Chilean army with a strategic advantage in the ...
skyrocketed from 1 in 1783, 266 in 1820, 702 in 1840, to 1,371 in 1860. European capital also helped to build American infrastructure. By 1844, one British traveler declared that “the prosperity of America, her railroads, canals, steam navigation, and banks, are the fruit of English ...
It was this land that first brought settlers to Greenfield in the decades before there was a United States of America. Our map history of this town begins before Greenfield was formally established. In the late 1600s and early 1700s the western frontier of New England was a dangerous and ...
In 1626, the first European, Etienne Brule arrived in Niagara. This signalled the beginning of the onslaught of European explorers coming to the "New World" (North America) including Niagara. Brule may have the first of the white missionaries to visit the Neutral Indians....
The Ames Works produced high quality axles and iron tires for locomotives. It also found a market for heavy, wrought iron parts such as anchors for the new steamships that were superceding wooden sailing vessels. With good products and a booming demand, the Ames Works prospered until the ...
Establish a profitable Railroad Corporation in the Golden Age of Steam Engage in political lobbying and research new technologies Expand your operations with new departments, recruit employees and manage business loans Buy, control and maintain historically accurate locomotives and rolling st...
mTH IS book uc sta nce s owes its origin to the following cir D uring the early months of the year 188 5 , the author, in pursuit of health and recreation solely, availed himself of an opportunity to visit Mexico, un d er peculiarly favorable conditions. ma T in he ly j ou rn ...