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Have you ever thought about why The United States has progressed to where it is today? There are several inventions that have changed the world but one invention is often forgot about: Railroads. Railroads are interesting to study according to the following information: struggles before the railroads were built, the invention of it, struggles with it and its fixes, the Transcontinental Railroads, modern day trains and tracks, and how the railroads shaped Texas. Before the railroads were invented…

convenient for people to utilize. Commuting in downtown can be a major headache. For example, paying for parking, finding parking, the extra caution required while driving because of so many pedestrians and one-way streets, and paying for gas. I am a commuter here at GSU and I must confess, it is really expensive and stressful. The streetcar is a great option for those who must travel around the downtown area. Its free, it’s design creates a smooth, comfortable transport, and it is pretty fast!…

The “Men Who Built America” revolutionized our country. Architecture, transportation, and housing was forever changed when Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and Henry Ford decided to take action. Their minds thought alike, for they all had the same movement: to make their industry a success. The men who built America were Captains of Industry, or put simply: beneficial to America and its future. The chain of historic events…

During the civil war, many businesses emerged from nothing to something. Everyone who had their businesses sought this chance to make something out of their fortune. Therefore big business strengthened power and tried to take advantage of labor. They created an unfair system that consisted of unequal rights to the labor they were paying for, and even immigrant workers continued to be exploited. These businesses created so much power by using supply in demand as an advantage to make themselves…

The Underground Railroad was a chain of safe houses during the 1900’s for slaves trying to escape to Canada for freedom from their masters. Without the abolitionists hard work the Underground Railroad might have not been a success. Harriet Tubman had helped the Underground Railroads cause by saving slaves and bringing them to the free states. Thomas Garrett had hid runaway slaves and contacted William Still to tell him that new slaves would arrive. William Still had kept runaway slaves in his…

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Author Gregg Turner, a former director of the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society at Harvard Business School and a lifelong train enthusiast, has written several books and numerous articles on American railroad history. The Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, Inc., founded in 1921, is the oldest railroad history organization in North America, and among the first anywhere to pursue formal studies in the history of technology. The Society promotes research and encourages preservation of…

benefited tremendously. The building of the railroad dropped the general cost of shipping domestically as well as nationally. In the 1860’s to ship by wagon it cost 5 times more than it would by rail. With the price difference, and the fact with shipping by wagon it would remarkably take much longer, shipping by rail became the most efficient solution.…

The transportation industry has a rich history of regulation in the United States surrounding the railroads that most grade school students learn about. The legacy of the transportation industry is rife with antitrust cases and the struggle of the government to protect consumers across state lines. Within transportation lies the automotive industry; which has dealerships in nearly every city and state in the country making regulation not only a national issue but a state and municipal category.…

The internal market also rose in 1895 due to the railroads opening up the ability for people to acquire goods. These railroads systems was the reason for such a boom in exports. During 1878- 1880 there was only one port that was accessible to the rail ways and that was Veracruz, but once the railways had connected other cities such as Tampico and Progreso in Yucatan they were able to boom. Cardenas states that with the use of railroads, “the domestic market began its integration in a profound…