Rome Railroad

Incorporated on Dec. 21, 1839 as the Memphis Branch Railroad and Steamboat Co. of Georgia, this was the first railroad in the South designed to connect steamboat traffic to railroads. In Dec., 1849 the 18 mile track from Kingston to ...

Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Station

This railroad station was constructed between 1908 and 1910 to serve the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad and the Western Pacific Railroad. The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad was completed between Denver and Salt Lake City in March 1883, and ...

Central Railroad & Bank Bldg.

Georgia Historical Society records

show that this building, built in 1853

for the Central Railroad & Bank was

confiscated by Gen. Wm. T. Sherman's

Union Army Forces as the military

hdqrs. of the Post Commandant, Gen.

J.W. Geary during the ...

Working Men of the Railroads

The backbreaking work building railroads to the West was accomplished by men, like Thomas W. Haverty from Galway, Ireland. Wielding hammers and driving spikes their labor united a country and made Atchison "The Rail Centre of Kansas" beginning with the ...

Samuel Brown and the Underground Railroad

Across Fond du Lac Avenue from this point was the Samuel Brown farm, part of the local Underground Railroad, a network of hiding places for escaping slaves. In July 1842, 16-year-old Caroline Quarlles, a runaway slave from St. Louis, was ...

Underground Railroad

Site of station of Underground Railway used by Quakers during pre-Civil War days in smuggling slaves to Canada. Leader of the enterprise was Buddell Sleeper.

Marker is on County Route W 700 S east of Route S 550 W, on the ...

Vaca Valley Railroad

By 1875 the need to easily move grain, livestock, wood and stone from Berryessa Valley and the surrounding area to markets was recognized. In the spring of 1875 work began on a 13 mile extension of the railroad from Vacaville ...

Spooner and The Railroad

Development of the rail lines in this area was begun in 1871 from Hudson, Wis., by the North Wisconsin Railroad Co., and completed by the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha RR Co. to Ashland, Superior, and Eau Claire by ...

Conway Railroad Yards

Built on land of the Conway family farm. This yard was put in operation April 1887 under the ownership of the Pennsylvania R.R. Co., The yards are over four miles in length with 100 tracks. Holding 5000 cars by 1957 ...

Railroad & Religion on Rhett Street

Between the Civil War and the construction of the Panama Canal in 1904, local residents and investors desperately sought to surpass Wilmington by building a rail link to the Appalachian coal fields. Smithville would become the first refueling stop between ...