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History-of-Train-Travel

In our article on the History-of-Train-Travel or its earlier term 'rail transport", really, goes back many, years. If one considers the first stagecoaches as a from of rail transport we are talking almost 500 years.

For all intensive purposes, we will stick to History-of-Train-Travel, as it relates to the United States only.

Below we will give you a time line of the History-of-Train-Travel as referenced by

Wikipedia.com.

•1810s-1830s: Various inventors and entrepreneurs make suggestions about building model railways in the United States; In 1825 John Stevens (inventor) builds a test track and runs a locomotive around it in Hoboken, New Jersey.

•1820s and 1830s: The Baltimore and Ohio is incorporated in 1827 and officially opens in

1830. Other railroads soon follow, including the Camden and Amboy by 1832.

•August 8, 1829: The Stourbridge Lion is tested along tracks built by the Delaware and Hudson company.

•1830s-1860s: Enormous railway building booms in the United States of America. Railroads replace canals as a primary mode of transportation.

•1853 Indianapolis' Union Station, the first "union station" in the world, opened by the Terre Haute & Richmond, Madison & Indianapolis, and Belle fontaine railroads.

•1865: George Pullman becomes well-known for luxury sleeping cars, called Pullman cars in his honor, after he loans one of his cars to house the coffin of Abraham Lincoln after Lincoln's assassination.

•1869: Union Pacific and Central Pacific complete first transcontinental railway link at Promontory Summit.

•1869: George Westinghouse establishes air brake company.

•1870s and 1880s: Strikes break out against railroads and the Pullman Palace Car Company. Corporations hire Pinkerton guards to break up the strikes. Nonetheless, much violence occurs in the strikes. Many people were killed, buildings and rolling stock were burned, and reports of rioting shocked middle-class Americans.

•1886: Many southern states convert from broad gauges such as 1,524 mm (5 ft) to standard gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 81⁄2 in). See also Broad gauge#United States.

•1887: The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) is created to regulate railroads, to ensure fair prices.

•1891: Webb C. Ball establishes first Railway Watch official guidelines for Railroad chronometers.

•1901: Eight locomotive manufacturing companies are combined in a merger to form the American Locomotive Company (ALCO).

•1902: Twentieth Century Limited inaugurated by the New York Central railroad.

•1910s: Pennsylvania Railroad builds Pennsylvania Station in New York City; New York Central Railroad builds current version of Grand Central Terminal.

•1916: US railway reaches peak length.

•1920s and 1930s: Automobiles and airplanes contribute to a decline in ridership and mileage, as well as the Great Depression.

•1934: Burlington railroad's Pioneer Zephyr completes its inaugural run from Denver, Colorado to Chicago, Illinois, first diesel-powered stream liner in America.

•May 12, 1936: The Santa Fe railroad inaugurates the all-Pullman Super Chief between Chicago, Illinois, and Los Angeles, California.

•1940s: World War II brings railroads the highest ridership in American history, as soldiers are being sent to fight overseas in the Pacific Theater and the European Theater. However, automobile travel causes ridership to decline after the war ends.

•March 20, 1949: The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad and Western Pacific Railroad jointly launch the California Zephyr between Chicago, Illinois, and San Francisco, California, as the first passenger train to include Vista Dome cars in regular service.

•1950s and 1960s: Drastic decline in railroad travel in the United States of America, due to automobiles, trucks, and airplanes, as first jetliners take to the air. Railroads respond through mergers and attempts to shut down trains and railroad lines. However, the ICC refuses to let railroads shut down many trains.

•December 1, 1959: ICC approved Virginian Railway merger into Norfolk & Western begins modern-day period of railroad mergers and consolidations

•December 3, 1967: The New York Central's Twentieth Century Limited makes last run.

•1968: Pennsylvania Railroad and New York Central merge to form Penn Central.

•June 21, 1970: Penn Central declares Chapter 7 bankruptcy.

•1971: President Richard Nixon and the United States Congress create Amtrak and eliminate several passenger routes.

•March 22, 1970: The CB&Q, D&RGW and WP railroads' California Zephyr on its last run, arrives in Oakland, CA from Chicago, Illinois; however the train name will soon be resurrected by Amtrak on a train traveling almost the same route as the original

•1970s: Conrail, a freight railroad, founded from the remains of the bankrupt Penn Central and a number of other bankrupt railroads in the Northeastern US.

•1970s and 1980s: Amtrak introduces double-deck Super liner rolling stock. Auto-Train Corporation begins running as independent line (1971), but fails in 1981; In 1983, Amtrak revives service and runs slightly renamed Auto Train as one of its more-heavily-promoted lines.

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