aThe earliest hotels and restaurants for park visitors were built by railroad companies in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. Post war visitation overwhelmed these early facilities and new food and lodging, and other services were needed. New visitor facilities were added as part of the large...
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Congress passed the Federal Employers’ Liability Act (FELA) in 1908 in response to the high number of railroad deaths in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Under FELA, railroad workers who are not covered by regular workers’ compensation laws are able to sue companies over their injury claims...
The Pennsylvania Railroadwas founded in 1846 and went on to become one of the largest railroads in US history at one time managing a budget larger than the US government’s. It controlled about 10,000 miles of track and was affiliated with about 800 other rail companies. The PRR developed ...
This is a website we have created with information on all manner of antiques from the Railroads of the United States of America. These great companies helped build the US as the industrial power it became in the 1800s and 1900s.
The Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 and the act of the same name in 1864 chartered the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroad Companies, which required them to build a railroad that would connect the east and west regions of the United States. In order for settlement in the west to ...
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Following the Second World War, the four main railway companies in the United Kingdom were virtually bankrupt. So in 1947, Parliament passed theTransport Act, turning all railways over to the government to be operated by the newBritish Transportation Commission. ...
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In the late 1800s and early 1900s, more than 90 percent of immigrants to the U.S. arrived on steamships from all over the world. When Cunard launched the Campania and the Lucania in 1893, they were the largest transatlantic passenger vessels of the time. Each ship was capable of carryin...