There are 2 reasons why they stopped operating, these reasons are: 1. many were growing weary of these ships due to the fact that they always sunk and, 2. New tecnology was being invented and the steamship was too old for it's time, it had to move on and became discontinued. The same thing happened with the coal trains (well, for #2 that is).
It went bankrupt in 1862 and Ben Holladay who operated a freight business and was later a power in stagecoaches, steamships, and railroads took it over in a sale in 1862. It was made obsolete by the invention of the telegraph and the railroad.
Steamships (APEX)
A decrease use of steamships (apex)
metal and stone
An insulator.
John Fitch
railroads and steamships
Drop it off a balcony
in 1794
Steamships
Steamships
they didnt actually stop operating but merged in 1974 with british European airways to form british airways