Alameda Terminus of the 1st Transcontinental Railroad

[Center and Main Marker:]

This plaque marks the terminus of the First Transcontinental Passenger train that started in New York City and terminated at Alameda Point Pier On September 6, 1869.

Erected by the U.S. Naval Air Station, Alameda in cooperation ...

Old Railroad Bed

Side A

Ashe Boulevard was built on the early railroad bed which connected Florence and Southport to the main railroad line in Tuscumbia. Trains first traveled along the railroad bed and across the Tennessee River in 1858 after the Memphis and ...

Railroad Cats

Cats have been a part of the railroad scene almost since the first rails were laid. Many railroad facilities, such as yard offices, rural stations, and interlocking towers, have had resident cats who have adopted (or let themselves be adopted ...

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Depot

Built 1907

This building has been placed on

The National Register of

Historic Places

By the United States Department of the Interior.

Atchinson, Topeka & Sante Fe

Railroad Depot

Built 1907

Kingman's early existence depended upon the railroad. The town's ...

The Underground Railroad in Lincoln's Neighborhood

The Underground Railroad refers to the efforts of enslaved African Americans to gain their freedom by escaping bondage. Acts of self-emancipation made runaways "fugitives" according to the laws of the time. While most began and completed their journeys unassisted, each ...

Railroad Brakes / Westinghouse Automatic Air Brakes

Railroad Brakes

Early railroad cars had hand-operated brakes. A lever (and later a brake wheel) near the top of each car applied the brakes only on that individual car. The engineer directed brakemen to apply or release brakes by whistle signals; ...

Oakland Railroad History

The railroad industry transformed Oakland from an oak forest to a thriving city. Rapid growth began when the Central Pacific Railroad absorbed local rail lines in 1868 and was granted right-of-way to build a freight and ferry pier. The Oakland ...

The "Swamp Rabbit" Railroad

For 100 years the "Swamp Rabbit" railroad crossed the Reedy River at this site. The train trestle was demolished in 1990, leaving the old concrete piers which now form an integral part of this dam.

Primarily a carrier of freight, the ...

Chesterfield Railroad

In 1829 the Virginia General Assembly chartered the Chesterfield Rail Road Company, which built the first railroad in Virginia. Moncure Robinson (1802-1891), a railroad pioneer, designed the track, which once passed by here. In 1831, the company began hauling coal ...

The Underground Railroad in Hancock County

Side A:

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 prompted an expansion of the "Underground Railroad," and as the state spanning the shortest distance between the Ohio River and Canada, Ohio saw heavy traffic in escaping slaves in the decades before the ...