"Erie Lackawanna: Death Of An American Railroad, 1938-1992," the first train of dignitaries ran the entire length of the system on April 22nd that year.
Don L. Doernberg
Erie Railroad (1880) Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad (via ownership of the Alton Railroad in 1947) Nickel Plate Road (has its origins in Chicago in 1881) Wabash (1880) Monon Route (1883) Soo Line (1908) Statistics As Chicago has become the center of the nation’s freight rail operations (...
The United States’ invasion of Canada 200 years ago went awry from the start. He was infamously involved in the Erie Railroad War of 1868, when he battled Wall Street traders Jim Fisk and Jay Gould for financial control of the Erie Railroad. The Erie was controlled by Daniel Drew, who ...
He was infamously involved in the Erie Railroad War of 1868, when he battled Wall Street traders Jim Fisk and Jay Gould for financial control of the Erie Railroad. The Erie was controlled by Daniel Drew, who conspired with Vanderbilt to buy up the majority of shares in the railroad. In re...
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Figure 1. The war brought new opportunities to women, such as the training offered to those who joined the Land Army (a) or the opening up of traditionally male occupations. In 1918, Eva Abbott (b) was one of many new women workers on the Erie Railroad. However, once the war ended ...
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The land was different then, consisting of tundra and spruce forest. During this time (the Palaeo-Indian Period, which lasted until 9,000 years ago), Niagara was inhabited by the Clovis people. These nomadic hunters likely camped along the old Lake Erie shoreline, living in simple, tiny ...
Traveling the Erie Canal, 1836 Victoria Becomes Queen, 1837 Escape From Slavery, 1838 A Flogging at Sea, 1839 P.T. Barnum Discovers "Tom Thumb," 1842 Living among the Shakers, 1843 Visit to the Red Light District, 1843 Buffalo Hunt, 1846 The Irish Potato Famine, 1847 The ...