The Great Railroad Revolution (74 page)

Trains
magazine, 320,
344

Tramways (streetcars),
274–275
,
278–279
,
286
,
330–332
,
353–354

Transcontinental Air Transport,
302–303

Transcontinental railroads,
38
,
54
,
57
,
86
,
117
,
175–180
,
201
,
215

and Central Pacific Railroad,
128
,
130
,
131–158

construction of first Transcontinental,
xxiii
,
124–158
(
see also
Railway construction
)

and corruption,
128
,
132–138
,
144
,
147–148
,
150
,
155–158

government funding,
129
,
153

meeting of railways,
150–152

and Native Americans,
127
,
128–129
,
147–150

opposition to,
95
,
96

purpose of,
154–155

and Union Pacific Railroad,
124
,
128
,
133–158
,
175

workforce,
139–149
,
150
,
151–152

See also
Railway construction

Trans-Siberian Railway,
xxiii
,
176

Travel passes,
254
,
272

Trespassers,
191–192
,
317

Trevithick, Richard,
14–15

Trollope, Anthony,
96

Trucking industry,
296
,
303
,
304–305
,
317

Tunnels,
47
,
79
,
139
,
142
,
144
,
165–167

and electrification,
286–287
,
310

Hudson River,
285–286
,
287

Turner, George Edgar,
107

Turner's Station,
64
,
65

Tuscarora & Cold Run Tunnel & Railroad,
49

Tuscumbia, Courtland & Decatur Railroad,
23

Twain, Mark,
159

Tweed, “Boss,”
243

Twentieth Century Limited
,
265–266
,
301
,
302
,
309

Twin Cities Hiawatha
,
312
,
328

Twin Cities Zephyr
,
312

Union News Company,
74

Union Pacific Railroad,
207
,
224
,
234
,
244
,
288
,
348
,
349–350

construction methods,
139

cooperation with Burlington Northern,
353
,
358

and corruption,
128
,
135–138
,
156–158
,
178

death toll,
142–143

diesel services,
312

financial difficulties and consolidation,
235
,
250
,
259

gas-engine trials,
310

and Hell on Wheels towns,
143

and meeting of railways,
57
,
150–152

and Native Americans,
147

and Transcontinental railroad,
124
,
128
,
133–158
,
175

workforce,
139–141
,
150–152

United States Military Railroads,
98
,
100
,
114
,
118
,
122

United States Railroad Administration,
291

USS
Michigan
,
57

Utica & Schenectady Railroad,
67

Uys, Errol Lincoln,
317

Van Sweringen brothers,
298–299

Vanderbilt, Cornelius,
xxv
,
68
,
81
,
182
,
224
,
233
,
238
,
240–245

Vanderbilt, William Henry,
245
,
248

Verne, Jules,
136

Villard, Henry,
177

Virginia & Tennessee Railroad,
162

Virginia Central Railroad,
32
,
115

Virginian Railroad,
347

Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific,
257
,
289
,
308

Wagner, Webster,
182

Wagon trains,
146
,
154

Wagonways,
2–3
,
4
,
15
,
18

Wall Street Crash,
298–299
,
300
,
307
,
308

Walla Walla & Columbia River Railroad,
210

Walters, Mrs.,
191

Ward, James A.,
36
,
44

Washington, DC

and Civil War,
97–99

Union Station,
219
,
260
,
344

Washington, George,
220

Watlington, Charles,
174

Watt, James,
5–6
,
14

Wayne, John,
111

Webb, Walter Seward,
224

Weld, Charles,
193

West River Railroad,
210

West Side and Yonkers Patent

Railway,
278

Western & Atlantic Railroad,
xxii
,
32
,
103
,
109
,
114
,
115
,
195

Western Emigrant
,
125

Western Maryland Railroad,
108
,
347

Western Pacific Railroad,
288
,
335

Western Railroad,
30
,
34
,
49
,
73

Western Union,
65
,
218

Westinghouse, George,
198
,
199
,
200

Westinghouse company,
286

Wheels, flanged,
3–4

White, Richard,
155
,
215

White Train
,
265

Whitney, Asa,
126–128
,
153–154

Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
(film),
331

Wilder, Billy,
184

Wilmington & Raleigh Railroad,
49

Wilson, Harold,
326

Wilson, Woodrow,
289
,
291
,
304

Windsor, Duke of,
187

Work trains,
139
,
145–146

World's fairs,
221

Yellowstone Park,
269

Yonah, The
,
110

Young, Brigham,
148
,
152

Yulee, David L.,
103

Yutang, Lin,
324

“Zulu trains,”
208

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