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The person in charge of a railroad station is called a station master.;) Adios from, ME!!
yes she is definitely important she is in charge of the underground railroad
As one of the railroad's best conductors, my grandfather was in charge of conduction.
provided railroad companies land free of charge.
Central Pacific & Union Pacific.
Immigrants in the 1830's came into Ellis Island. In 1837 the Supreme Court ruled on a New York case to provide measures against "the moral pestilence of paupers, vagabonds, and possibly convicts, as it is to guard against the physical pestilence which may arise from unsound or infectious articles imported..,.,," Most came in from Europe and many were from China. Many of these people worked on the railroad and by 1840 the naturalization of Germans and Irish were expedited and offered free of charge before the elections. Immigrants landing in the morning might be voters by nightfall.
Stealing railroad tracks comes under a number of Federal felony areas, and will nearly guarantee Federal prison time, and can mean life in prison. However, you more likely mean theft of railroad rails where the track is not in service - this is a felony, and is very unlikely not to be caught if the thief attempts to sell the rails as scrap.
Rail road is private property...and it's a FELONY charge. punishable by IMPRISONMENT for up to five years and/or a fine up to $5,000.
All bridges in the Unites States are inspected every two years -- more often if they are critical. Railroads have B & B (bridge and building) engineers who look over the bridges under their charge. Because railroad loadings are larger than highway loads, railroad bridges tend to be stronger than other kinds.
The Union Pacific Railroad was mainly built by Irish and Chinese immigrant laborers, along with Civil War veterans and freed slaves. The chief engineer of the project was Grenville Dodge, who oversaw the construction and planning of the railroad. Other notable figures involved in the project included Thomas Durant, who was the vice president of the Union Pacific Railroad, and Leland Stanford, one of the founders of the Central Pacific Railroad.
As the railroad network expanded, the railroad companies competed fiercely with one another to keep old customers and to win new ones. Large railroads offered secret discounts called rebates to their biggest customers. Smaller railroads that could not match these rebates were often forced out of business. The railroad barons also made secret agreements among themselves, known as pools. They divided the railway business among their companies and set rates for a region, a railroad could charge higher rates and earn greater profits.
The First Transcontinental Railroad was primarily built by two companies: the Central Pacific Railroad, which started in California and moved eastward, and the Union Pacific Railroad, which began in Nebraska and moved westward. The Central Pacific was led by key figures such as Leland Stanford, Collis Potter Huntington, and Charles Crocker, while the Union Pacific was directed by Thomas C. Durant. The two lines met at Promontory Summit in Utah on May 10, 1869, marking the completion of the railroad. The project was a monumental engineering feat that transformed transportation in the United States.