this made traveling great distances be on the same or earlier times.
Work for a railroad.
Those were the days before electricity, thus before signaling ... All trains ran off a timetable, a schedule of timed meetings. In order for that to work everyone on the railroad had to be using a common time, called "standard time" or "railroad time".
I am thinking it is 10 years. If you want to research it yourself go to www.rrb.gov and look on the Railroad Retirement Boards website.
I've been working on the railroad is about how the railroad was made. It is also about the trains and how they work. It is mostly about work in the olden days.
the railroad
Yes. White Women did work on the underground railroad. Although, mostly men worked on the underground railroad, while the women helped aid wounded.
Immigrants and minorities did most of the work on the first transcontinental railroad.
The Railroad
Her dad was a lawyer, but spent most of his time working in different positions in railroad companies.
Standard Time Zones created by the railroad industry in the 1880's rather than solar time.
The Chinese worked mostly under the Central Pacific railroad company.
The people who made the Underground Railroad work were called "Conductors". An example of a Conductor is Harriet Tubman.