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• Directory:Utah
  ...ailroad northwest of Ogden, completing the nation's first transcontinental railroad. * Completion of the world's first transcontinental railroad was celebrated at Promontory where the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Ra
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• Directory:Corydon, Indiana
  '''CORYDON SCENIC RAILROAD''', Walnut and Water sts., provides narrated, 90-minute sightseeing tours t
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• Directory:Wyoming
  ...Purchase (1803), Wyoming became a ranching center after the Union Pacific Railroad was established (1868). Cheyenne is the capital and the largest city. Popul In the late 1860s, the Union Pacific Railroad began stitching Wyoming to the rest of the country, and the population incr
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• Directory:Maryland
  .... Labor troubles hit Maryland with the Panic of 1873, and four years later railroad wage disputes resulted in large-scale rioting in Cumberland and Baltimore. * In 1830 the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company built the first railroad station in Baltimore.
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• Directory:Indiana
  The economy improved in the 1850s, as railroad expansion linked Indiana to East coast markets. New industries were develop * Indiana's first major railroad line linked Madison and Indianapolis and was completed in 1847.
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• Directory:Louisiana
  ...morating the completion of the east-west Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific Railroad, was driven at Bossier City on July 12, 1884, by Julia "Pansy" Rule. It was ...According to one local folk tale, trainmen would shout "West We Go" as the railroad cars were reconnected and pulled out of the station.
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• Directory:Nebraska
  * Union Pacific Railroad's museum is headquartered in Nebraska.
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• Directory:Tom Zart
  ...ng at the railroad for 30 years. Zart would utilize his time on those long railroad trips gleaning all that he could from his senses: the haunting sound of the
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• Directory:Arizona
  ....S. Territory of New Mexico in 1850. The United States, wishing to build a railroad through the area S of the Gila River, bought the area between the river and * In 1926, the Southern Pacific Railroad connected Arizona with the eastern states.
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• Directory:Kansas
  The postwar advent of the railroad into Kansas made the state a popular destination for cattle drives in the c * South of Ashland the Rock Island Bridge is the longest railroad bridge of its kind. It measures 1,200 feet long and is 100 feet above the C
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• Directory:North Dakota
  ...d workers. Even when free land was opened in 1863 and the Northern Pacific Railroad was chartered in 1864, concern with the Civil War and the eruption of open ...ceived in the late 1800s. With the impending arrival of the Great Northern Railroad the town site was actually selected in November of 1886. Its phenomenal gro
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• Directory:Infoappenders.com
  ...om/email-lists/railroad-transportation-industry-executives-email-lists.asp Railroad Transportation Industry Executives Lists From InfoAppenders]
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• Directory:American Express
  ...th the гailroad, which allowed American Express to hold on to its valuable railroad connection throughout the Midwest. ...ry. Messengers used eveгy means of transportation—steaмers, riveг boats, railroad cars, freight wagons, mulө trains, and Pony Express. Some messengers eνen
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• Directory:Delaware
  * The nation's first scheduled steam railroad began in New Castle in 1831. ...ugitive slaves move through Delaware, an important stop on the Underground Railroad.
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• Directory:Oklahoma
  ...ely after the Civil War the long drives of cattle from Texas to the Kansas railroad head began to cross Oklahoma, traveling over the cattle trails that became The first railroad to cross Oklahoma was built between 1870 and 1872, and thereafter it was no
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• Directory:Kentucky
  ...er the Civil War industrial and commercial recovery was aided by increased railroad construction, but farmers were plagued by the liabilities of the one-crop ( * High Bridge located near Nicholasville is the highest railroad bridge over navigable water in the United States.
  18 KB (2,900 words) - 19:16, 17 January 2013
• Directory:Iowa
  * The highest double track railroad bridge in the world, the Kate Shelley Bridge, is located at Boone.
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• Directory:Montana
  The coming of the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1883 opened the way to the eastern markets and caused even more growth. ...Anaconda Company. The Company organized an electric power company, built a railroad, and constructed dams. It also controlled forests, banks, and newspapers. A
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• Directory:Arkansas
  ...farms, factories and cities around the state were linked by 5,000 miles of railroad. Many public schools were developed, and numerous colleges, including the U
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• Directory:Trackibd
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