By 1900, the country's total rail mileage had increased to 193,346, from 163,597 in 1890. It would continue to grow for another decade before reaching its all-time high during the World War I era. At the 20th century's dawn, railroads had reached their economic supremacy; it seemed ...
Railroad history in the United States is nearly as old as the country itself, dating back to the mid-1820s. As we know, this great nation would not have grown and prospered as it did without the railroads, which brought together the young country and allowed for unprecedented prosperity....
This series offers a fresh perspective on how railroads created and shaped America's financial institutions, America's singular brand of capitalism and its unique way of doing business. The growth of American railroads from 1830 to 1930 is...See more Read more: Plot summary Seasons 1 See ...
Turning points in history are often hidden and difficult to distinguish, but this was not the case in the rebirth of the American railroad industry. It happened on October 14, 1980. That's the day that President Jimmy Carter signed the Staggers Rail Act into law. The legislation gave the ...
In the 1920s, the railroad industry’s private pension plans already faced a number of problems, which were then compounded by the Great Depression in the 1930s. There was a push for establishing a separate federal retirement program for railroad workers around ...
Arkansas logging railroads once constituted dozens of small operations as the state field vast reserves of timber due to its rugged topography and home to the Ozark Mountains. The earliest such lines to be found in the state date back to the 1870s and while most were abandoned by the 1920s...
California logging railroads were some of the most prolific operations found anywhere in the west along with those lines in Oregon and Washington. Virtually all of the state's railroads were located in the northern regions (and some even operated into southern Oregon) where there were, and still...
Soon after the Northern Pacific arrived in Montana and had opened the first route to the Pacific Northwest by 1883, followed by the Great Northern in 1893, and Milwaukee Road (Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific) in 1909. The completion of the Northwest's three major railroads was a gr...