Metroliner’s amazing career
The Metroliner leapt out of the starting gate in January 1969, beat the airline competition, and became a way of…
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Interurbans Interurbans were electric railroads running between cities, often of lighter construction than “steam” railroads. They had their own rights…
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One enduring symbol of railroading’s past is the red-and-white diamond herald of the Railway Express Agency. Today one finds reminders…
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Norfolk & Western’s Jawn Henry (named for the legendary “steel-drivin’ man”) was the last of a handful of U.S. experimental…
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BNSF Railway Company Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. created on September 22, 1995, when BN bought AT&SF’s corporate Parent. Atchison,…
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Canadian National Canadian National Railways was incorporated June 6, 1919, to operate several carriers that had come under governmental control…
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Canadian Pacific Railway Canadian Pacific, like its American counterpart Union Pacific, has the “right” name, one that endures, though CP…
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Conrail (Consolidated Rail Corporation) After the failure of Penn Central in 1970, the government formed the United States Railway Association…
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CSX Transportation CSX Corporation was formed on November 1, 1980. Subsidiary CSX Transportation absorbed Seaboard System Railroad on July 1,…
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Kansas City Southern Railway Kansas City Southern, which began as the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf in 1890, was completed…
Read moreOperational organization of Mexican railroads from 1960 to 1987 Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México (NdeM) División de Cárdenas División del Centro,…
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Norfolk Southern Corp. was created as a new holding company to acquire Norfolk & Western Railway and Southern Railway, effected…
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