• Consolidation happens when two railroad companies are consolidated, often the last step in an arrangement between two railroads. It is difficult to undo except...
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  • unrelated and diverse products or services functions, or both. Arrangements between railroads Associate company Business valuation Consolidated financial...
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    discrepancies, if they exist, are short-lived and quickly equilibrated. Arrangements between railroads Boiler room Bucket shop Buying in (securities) Concentrated...
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    three. Seating arrangement is typically [2+2],[citation needed] while the hard seat in China has [3+2] arrangements. The seating arrangements and density...
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  • governing railroads be enacted, with the hope that a regulatory system which gave railroads more freedom in pricing and service arrangements, subject to...
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  • EMD DD35 (category Union Pacific Railroad locomotives)
    locomotive of D-D wheel arrangement built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division for the Union Pacific Railroad and Southern Pacific Railroad. In the early 1960s...
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  • control of the railroads ceased. Many indeed lasted until the end of steam on those railroads. Swengel suggested the 2-10-0 arrangement was 'obsolete'...
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  • 2013. "Guide for Railroads" (PDF). Association of American Railroads. 30 May 2013. Retrieved 19 October 2014. "Understanding railroad reporting marks"...
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    (1972). Controlled railroads and jointly-owned railroads such as Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines and the Raritan River Railroad (1980) were also included...
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    Financing of railroads provided the basis for a dramatic expansion of the private (non-governmental) financial system. Construction of railroads was far more...
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    Staggers Rail Act (category United States railroad regulation)
    dismantling of the collective rate making machinery among railroads begun in 1976 was reaffirmed, with railroads not allowed to agree to rates they could perform...
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    City. The railroad gradually expanded both east and west, and eventually linked Buffalo with New York City. Like most coal-focused railroads in Northeastern...
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    with railroads lasted 25 years, ending in 1954. The arrangement granted REA the exclusive right to express services on railroads. The railroads would...
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    railroads that they were being leased to the Galena by official published proclamation. By the end of 1862 a letter was published to other railroads by...
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  • Federal Express (train) (category Passenger trains of the Pennsylvania Railroad)
    named passenger train run by the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad between Washington Union Station in Washington, D...
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  • and a similar situation existed in Northern Ireland. Arrangements between railroadsarrangements in gaining track access in other countries ERTMS – A...
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    similar high speeds. Other American railroads considered buying 4-8-8-4s, including the Western Pacific Railroad, which already rostered large 2-8-8-2s...
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    common arrangement in 19th Century American railroading. 4-4-0s stayed in service on the PRR in secondary work later than on most other railroads, and three...
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    locomotives. Challengers were most common in the Union Pacific Railroad, but many other railroads ordered them as well. An expansion for the Union Pacific Challenger...
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    in 1939, the railroad experimented with welded rail before many other railroads.[citation needed] The branch of the D&H that ran between Lake Village...
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  • times the traffic as other railroads of comparable length, such as the Union Pacific and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroads. Its only formidable rival...
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  • Railway's Murphy Branch between Dillsboro and Nantahala, North Carolina. The GSMR is one of the most popular tourist railroads in the United States, carrying...
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    acquisitions with other established railroads, until it was itself acquired by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad under lease agreement on March...
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    Surface Transportation Board (category United States railroad regulation)
    made to establish "reciprocal switching rules" to require railroads to create arrangements where shippers could access competing carriers instead of other...
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    Union Pacific Big Boy (category Union Pacific Railroad locomotives)
    by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) between 1941 and 1944 and operated by the Union Pacific Railroad in revenue service until 1962. The 25 Big Boy...
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  • State Railroad". Archived from the original on July 9, 2006. Retrieved July 9, 2006. "Jaguar Transport Holdings Acquires 5 Shortline Railroads and a Railroad...
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  • Lake Erie Railroad, Locomotive Repair Shops" Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Historical Society The Family Tree of North American Railroads P&LE 1960...
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    by the first United States railroads. When new locomotive construction began in the United States in 1831, some new railroads opted for a different gauge...
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  • the railroads, and Congress recognized that bankruptcy laws needed revision. The Chandler Acts of 1938-9 provided a new form of relief for railroads, allowing...
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  • of travel, New Jersey began investigating a cross-state canal and railroads. Railroads had already met with success in Britain and several American cities...
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