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Norfolk Southern began in Muncie as two different railroads in the 1870s: the Fort Wayne, Muncie & Cincinnati and the Lafayette, Muncie & Bloomington. Both had consolidated into the Lake Erie & ...

Tracey-[sic],-Minn., engine of the South Dakota division, Detroit-Publishing Co., Published between-1880 and 1930. In 1853 when Carnegie joined the Pennsylvania Railroad, trains carried a sense of ...

By the 1970s and 1980s, railroads were enjoying freedom they hadn't known since the Gilded Age of the 1870s. Unfortunately, business did not keep pace. In 1971, the government formed Amtrak ...

In 1870, a delegation from British Columbia went ... surprised the B.C. group by offering them a railway instead. Construction would begin within two years and be completed in ten years.