726806°W / 42.14222; -72.726806 The Pioneer Valley Railroad, founded in 1982, is a Class III short line freight railroad operating the former Conrail (née-New...
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The Pioneer Zephyr is a diesel-powered trainset built by the Budd Company in 1934 for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (CB&Q), commonly known...
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working for Henry Morrison Flagler, the industrialist, oil magnate and railroad pioneer. It is now listed as a National Historic Landmark. Lawrence Lewis Jr...
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The Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) was a rail company chartered by U.S. Congress in 1862 to build a railroad eastwards from Sacramento, California, to...
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Dakota Territory during the final years of the American Old West era, a railroad pioneer in Vietnam, and antisemitic politician in his native France. Born...
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The Pioneer and Fayette Railroad (PF) was a historic railroad that operated in Ohio. The P&F began operations in November 1934 using abandoned Toledo...
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23 January 1799 – 1 October 1858) was a Tyrolean civil engineer and railroad pioneer mostly active in parts of the Austrian Empire, Switzerland, Germany...
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county seat is Kimball. The county was formed in 1888 and named after railroad pioneer Thomas Lord Kimball. In the Nebraska license plate system, Kimball...
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Partners reached an agreement with the Pinsly Railroad Company to acquire a 6th short-line, Pioneer Valley Railroad, through its subsidiary Gulf & Atlantic...
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Moffat Tunnel (category Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad)
Tunnel is a railroad and water tunnel that cuts through the Continental Divide in north-central Colorado. Named after Colorado railroad pioneer David Moffat...
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Pioneer Park is a 44-acre (109-ha) city park in Fairbanks, Alaska, United States run by the Fairbanks North Star Borough Department of Parks and Recreation...
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has owned railroads continuously since its founding in 1938. As of 2022[update] Pinsly's sole railroad subsidiary is the Pioneer Valley Railroad in Massachusetts...
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George S. Griggs (category American railroad pioneers)
George S. Griggs (1805-1870) was a pioneer master mechanic in the earliest days of railroading in the United States. Griggs, like other mechanics of his...
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carriers National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak). Service along the former San Francisco Zephyr lasted from 1972 to 1983 and the Pioneer lasted only...
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Pioneer is the first railroad locomotive to operate in Chicago, Illinois. It was built in 1837 by Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Utica and Schenectady...
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Pioneer Lines (formerly Pioneer Railcorp) was a holding company for a number of American short-line railroads. Other subsidiaries offered locomotive and...
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orientalist and writer Alois Negrelli (1799–1858), Tyrolean engineer and railroad pioneer in Austria, Italy and Switzerland Aloys Pennarini (1870–1927), tenor...
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uninhabited picnic island, originally built in 1920 as a memorial to railroad pioneer Henry Flagler. The islands are connected by bridges from the Miami...
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Theodore Judah (category First transcontinental railroad)
design of the First transcontinental railroad. He found investors for what became the Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR). As chief engineer, he performed...
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H. Nettleton (November 13, 1831 – March 26, 1896) was an American railroad pioneer and civil engineer from Chicopee, Massachusetts. He served as civil...
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the Maumee & Western Railroad. The line was purchased by Pioneer Railcorp on December 28, 2012 for $5.4 million. In 2019, Pioneer Railcorp was acquired...
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Railroad Museum in Pioneer Park (1899 engine) White Pass and Yukon Route Arizona Railway Museum (No excursions listed) Arizona State Railroad Museum (In planning...
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founder of AGA and Nobel Prize laureate Nils Ericson (1802–1860), railroad pioneer (SJ) John Ericsson (1803–1889), inventor and engineer (USS Monitor)...
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by Pioneer RailCorp from Atlantic Western Transportation Company, the holding company for the Heart of Georgia Railroad. Pioneer renamed the railroad as...
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reached the United States, where the first steam railroad opened in 1829. American railroad pioneers soon started manufacturing their own locomotives...
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Navigation, Railroad and Coal Company, which opened a railroad line to transport the coal, making List an early American railroad pioneer. Through these...
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Polhemus — named after Charles Bispham Polhemus, an early San Jose railroad pioneer that owned the land that would later become Atherton, Millbrae & Menlo...
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The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (reporting mark CBQ) was a railroad that operated in the Midwestern United States. Commonly referred to as...
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Moncure Robinson, (1802–1891) a European-trained engineer and U.S. railroad pioneer to supervise construction. In 1830, capital stock was increased to...
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automobile pioneer, inventor of the first gasoline powered automobile (vehicles of 1870 and 1889) Alois Negrelli (1799–1858), engineer and railroad pioneer (created...
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