• The Little Saw Mill Run Railroad was a 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge coal railroad in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. It was incorporated July...
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    main stream of Saw Mill Run from the Pittsburgh and Castle Shannon Tunnel to Castle Shannon, Pennsylvania. The Little Saw Mill Run Railroad followed the...
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  • Banksville. It acquired the Little Saw Mill Run Railroad by merger in 1897, and the Bruce and Clairton Railroad in 1901. The railroad was bankrupt in 1908....
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  • Whitehall Tunnel (category Baltimore and Ohio Railroad tunnels)
    former route into Pittsburgh along the Pittsburgh Southern and Little Saw Mill Run Railroad. One worker, Antonio De Bono, was killed during its construction...
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    The Saw Mill River is a 23.5-mile (37.8 km): 9  tributary of the Hudson River in Westchester County, New York, United States. It flows from an unnamed...
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    prosperous mining town whose settlers were mostly Scotch-Irish. The Little Saw Mill Run Railroad, owned by the Harmony Society, was operated between Banksville...
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  • following railroads operate in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Aliquippa and Ohio River Railroad (AOR) Genesee & Wyoming Allegheny Valley Railroad (AVR) Allentown...
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    Mill Valley is a city in Marin County, California, United States, located about 14 miles (23 km) north of San Francisco via the Golden Gate Bridge and...
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  • Abraham Kirkpatrick Lewis (category Defunct Pennsylvania railroads)
    Sawmill Run, opened in 1857, was originally served by a horse-drawn tramway, later converted to steam power as the Little Saw Mill Run Railroad. The Kirk...
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    3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge railways in the United States. Narrow-gauge railroads of various sizes existed across the US, especially during the late 1800s...
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  • standard gauge Little Saw Mill Run Railroad as a substitute connection to Pittsburgh using dual gauge track led to the Castle Shannon Railroad War of 1878...
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  • was proposed to run from Bellefonte to Mill Hall, providing a connection with the Beech Creek Railroad. (The Bellefonte & Buffalo Run's only connection...
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  • 14 miles (23 km) down the railroad to the east. After mining stopped in the community, other industries such as saw mills kept the population busy. Ultimately...
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    Casey Jones (category Illinois Central Railroad people)
    Luther "Casey" Jones (March 14, 1863 – April 30, 1900) was an American railroader who was killed when his passenger train collided with a stalled freight...
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  • largest saw mills, owned by C. W. Sones, was located at Masten. Sones also built a short line railroad called the Susquehanna & Eaglesmere Railroad to feed...
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  • Lake Erie Railroad (reporting mark BLE) was a class II railroad that operates in northwestern Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio. The railroad's main route...
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    band saw mill in Tuckaleechee, and the town that bears his name grew up in the vicinity. He formed the Little River Railroad to connect the mill with...
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    The Allegheny Portage Railroad was the first railroad constructed through the Allegheny Mountains in central Pennsylvania. It operated from 1834 to 1854...
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  • Williams Mill Road. Later, J.F. Wallace (1840–1902) succeeded Williams. His name was given to Wallace Station, a former stop on the Seaboard Railroad, and...
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    built a water-driven mill on the Sangamon, which was later replaced by a steam-driven mill. By 1857, the town consisted of a saw mill, a blacksmith shop...
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    Hartford Railroad (the New Haven), which held significant portions of its stock. The Wood River Branch carried both passengers and freight for local mills and...
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    Dobbin on the North Branch Potomac River in Grant County. In 1902, a band saw mill was constructed on the main stem of Red Creek. The lumber boom town of...
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    1882 Spuyten Duyvil train wreck (category Accidents and incidents involving New York Central Railroad)
    acquitted. The wreck led the railroad to discontinue the use of mineral oil to light cars at night. While the railroad had long before switched from...
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  • County, California, built by Humboldt Lumber Mill Company McCloud, California, built by McCloud River Railroad Lumber Company. Metropolitan, California,...
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    flour mills, the granite quarry, the saw mill and plaster mill. In 1830, Ellicott's Mills became the first terminus of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad outside...
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    common practice at the time, the mills used child labor. See Avondale Mills. Comer was a vocal advocate for railroad reform. Alabama business owners were...
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    (reporting marks C&O, CO) was a Class I railroad formed in 1869 in Virginia from several smaller Virginia railroads begun in the 19th century. Led by industrialist...
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    the Goose Creek and Little River Navigation Company canal system had been completed on Goose Creek to Ball's (Evergreen) Mill, 12 miles (19 km) upstream...
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    north of the railroad from the Beckwith estate and a small lot of land south of the railroad from William Harris, where he constructed a saw mill and train...
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    one-square-mile area. The original plan for the Houston and Texas Central Railroad was to have run from McDade, 10 miles (16 km) east of Elgin, southwest to the Colorado...
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