Railroad Strike of 1877

In July, unrest hit U.S. rail lines. Pennsylvania Railroad workers struck to resist wage and job cuts. Here, on July 21, militia fatally shot some 26 people. A battle followed; rail property was burned. The strike was finally broken by ...

The Great Railroad Boom

"...a handsome building...in the French Renaissance style."

Left Column

The Wilmington Morning News of June 8, 1888, reported that the proposed new B & O passenger station, had been designed by Frank Furness of Furness, Evans and Company in Philadelphia. In addition ...

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Shop Complex

The roundhouse is the sole surviving cast-iron framed roundhouse and is an important example of mid-19th century industrial building design. Designed by Albert Fink, in collaboration with Benjamin H. Latrobe, it represents an early use of standardized, prefabricated iron structural ...

Roundhouses and Shops / Railroad Strike of 1877

Roundhouses and Shops. The B&O Railroad reached Martinsburg in 1842,

and by 1849, a roundhouse and shops were

built. These first buildings were burned by

Confederate troops in 1862. The present west

roundhouse and the two shops were built in

1866. The east roundhouse was ...

Elkmont, Alabama / Tenn. & Ala. Central Railroad

Front

The earliest settlers to this area moved across the Chickasaw boundary before 1810 and established the Sims and New Garden settlements. The area came to be known as Elkmont, for the once abundant elk, the Elk River and ...

Experimental Railroad

Est. 1833. Horses hauled granite for the Capitol over a railroad from a quarry 1¼ miles S.E.

Marker is on North Wilmington Street north of New Bern Avenue, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Ohio Electric Railroad Bridge / Roche De Bout/Roche De Boeuf

[South Side of Marker]: "Ohio Electric Railroad Bridge"

The Lima and Toledo Traction Company Bridge was construted in 1907 by the National Bridge Company of Indianapolis, and it was considered to be a revolutionary type of bridge construction. The Old Electric ...

"Tapeworm Railroad"

Begun in 1836 by the State of Pennsylvania, largely through the efforts of Thaddeus Stevens. The meandering railroad's nickname was provided by its opponents. It was put up for sale in 1842. Just west of here stands its granite stone ...

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Station

Built: 1884. The Gaithersburg Railroad Station and freight house were built in 1884 as handsome replacements for the adjacent small frame structure which served as a freight depot when the Metropolitan Branch of the B & O Railroad was extended ...

The Historic Southside Railroad Complex of Stevens Point

Once the rail hub of central Wisconsin, Stevens Point’s Historic Southside Railroad Complex still contains buildings, engines and tracks that evoke the time when the railroad was the dominant means of transportation in the country. The first train chugged into ...