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Fort Worth, Texas
FORT WORTH, Texas — The railroad is as vital to Fort Worth’s history as cattle. The city was a stop along the legendary Chisholm Trail, and the first railroad to reach the city was the Texas & Pacific Railway, which arrived in 1876. The arrival of the Santa Fe Railroad in the 1880s followed. In 1893, Boston capitalist Greenleif Simpson and other investors, including Louville Niles, bought Union Stockyards and renamed it the Fort Worth Stockyards Company. In the early 20th century, the two largest cattle slaughtering firms of the time, Armour & Co. and Swift & Co., established operations in the new stockyard. Both Trinity Railway Express and TEXRail
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Investigators Looking at Speed in Deadly Philadelphia Antrak Wreck
Investigators are looking into whether speed played a role in the fatal wreck that left six dead and dozens more injured, CNN reported. The train derailed about 9:30 p.m. just north of Philadelphia. The train was traveling from Washington to New York. “We are deeply saddened by the loss of life from Amtrak Northeast Regional Train 188 that derailed north of Philadelphia Tuesday evening,” Amtrak said in a statement. Amtrak said there were 238 passengers and five crewmembers on the train at the time of the crash. At least 140 people were taken to area hospitals, some in critical condition, according to news reports. Amtrak service on the Northeast Corridor
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Dining Car
Edited from Wikipedia Before dining cars in passenger trains were common in the United States, a rail passenger’s option for meal service in transit was to patronize one of the roadhouses often located near the railroad’s water stops. Fare typically consisted of rancid meat, cold beans and old coffee, and such poor conditions discouraged many from making the journey. Most railroads began offering meal service on trains even before the First Transcontinental Railroad. By the mid-1880s, dedicated dining cars were a normal part of long-distance trains from Chicago for points westward, save those of the Santa Fe, which relied on America’s first interstate network of restaurants to feed passengers en
Sanford, Florida
The South Florida Railroad, built from Sanford to Tampa, Florida, was the first railroad to reach Sanford, Florida. It started operations on November 11, 1880, running between Sanford and Orlando. In 1893, the Plant System took over the South Florida Railroad. In 1902, the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad took over the Plant System. Today, the former South Florida Railroad is part of the Central Florida Rail Corridor. In the 1870s, the Jacksonville, Tampa & Key West Railway built a link between Sanford and Jacksonville, Florida. The railroad went bankrupt in 1893 and was operated by a receiver until 1899, when the receiver leased it to the Plant Investment Company. It
Gainesville, Georgia
GAINESVILLE, Ga. — May 28, 1871, spelled an important day for the city of Gainesville — it was the day that the Atlanta and Richmond Air Line Railway opened. In 1894, the railroad came under the control of Southern Railway. The railroad served as an important link between Atlanta and Charlotte. As the railroad grew, so to did other lines that served Gainesville and the city quickly became and important railroad hub. On Aug. 23, 1872, the Gainesville, Jefferson and Southern Railroad was chartered. A 55-mile segment between Gainesville and Monroe opened March 8, 1884. In 1904, the Gainesville Midland Railway took over the Gainesville, Jefferson & Southern Railroad, which
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