Rail transportation in the United States consists primarily of freight shipments along a well integrated network of standard gauge private freight railroads...
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railroads in North America Rail transport in Mexico#History Rail transportation in the United States Railroad land grants in the United States Railroad...
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shipments. Transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. The overwhelming majority of roads in the United States are...
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a list of the operating passenger rail transit systems in the United States. This list does not include intercity rail services such as the Alaska Railroad...
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Transportation in the United States is governed by laws and regulations of the federal government. The Department of Transportation is responsible for...
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The United States is served by a wide array of public transportation, including various forms of bus, rail, ferry, and sometimes, airline services. Most...
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The Surface Transportation Board (STB) of the United States is an independent federal agency that serves as an adjudicatory board. The board was created...
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with the protection of life through regulation, management and technology development of all forms of rail transportation. In the United States there...
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Plans for high-speed rail in the United States date back to the High-Speed Ground Transportation Act of 1965. Various state and federal proposals have...
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The establishment of America's transcontinental rail lines securely linked California to the rest of the country, and the far-reaching transportation...
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The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT or DOT) is one of the executive departments of the U.S. federal government. It is headed by the...
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Association, of the roughly 30 cities with light rail systems in the United States, the light rail systems in six of them (Boston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia...
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The Staggers Rail Act of 1980 is a United States federal law that deregulated the American railroad industry to a significant extent, and it replaced...
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commuter rail lines; it is the national passenger rail hub for Amtrak routes, and also the main freight rail hub of North America. Surface transportation networks...
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The following is a list of all heavy rail rapid transit systems in the United States. It does not include statistics for bus or light rail systems; see:...
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Commuter rail services in the United States, Canada, Cuba, Mexico, Panama, and Costa Rica provide common carrier passenger transportation along railway...
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in shaping the economic, social, and geographic landscape of the United States, laying the foundation for much of the nation's modern transportation infrastructure...
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The following is a list of all light rail systems in the United States. Also included are some of the urban streetcar/trolley systems that provide regular...
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The following is a list of commuter rail systems in the United States, ranked by ridership. All figures come from the American Public Transportation Association's...
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railroad. The idea of a rail network in the US, which is by then showing early signs some areas have overbuilt in the Eastern United States is still not...
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Rail speed limits in the United States are regulated by the Federal Railroad Administration. Railroads also implement their own limits and enforce speed...
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see Rail transport in Mexico United States: see Rail transportation in the United States Australia: see Rail transport in Australia Nauru: see Rail transport...
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Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 (redirect from Discrimination in railroad freight rates in the United States)
were transferred to a new agency, the Surface Transportation Board. History of rail transport in the United States Interstate Commerce Act of 1887, ch...
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In the United States, a Class II railroad, sometimes referred to as a regional railroad, is a railroad company that is not Class I, but still has a substantial...
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The United Transportation Union (UTU) was a broad-based, transportation labor union that represented about 70,000 active and retired railroad, bus, mass...
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03 Ganst's: No.- 04 History of rail transport in Canada History of rail transport in the United States Rail transport in Mexico#History Brown, Robert R...
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Railroad Safety Appliance Act (category History of rail transportation in the United States)
(1915). History of rail transport in the United States Transportation safety in the United States McDonald, Charles (1993). The Federal Railroad Safety...
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Railroad classes (redirect from Class I rail carrier)
freight rail lines in the Western United States, while CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern Railway operate most of the trackage in the Eastern United States...
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major cities and regional population centers in the United States lack any form of inter-city passenger rail service, which would typically be provided...
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for rail transportation, the USMRR is one of the predecessors of the modern United States Army Transportation Corps. The American Civil War was the first...
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