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    The United States Railroad Administration (USRA) was the name of the nationalized railroad system of the United States between December 28, 1917, and March...
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    The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) is an agency in the United States Department of Transportation (DOT). The agency was created by the Department...
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    transportation in the United States consists primarily of freight shipments along a well integrated network of standard gauge private freight railroads that also...
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    Railroads played a large role in the development of the United States from the industrial revolution in the Northeast (1820s–1850s) to the settlement...
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  • all U.S. railroads from 1917 to 1920 under the United States Railroad Administration, and nationalization of the northeastern freight railroads under Conrail...
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    orders nationalization of the railroads shortly after the US enters World War I. The United States Railroad Administration manages the system until 1920...
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  • USRA standard (category Rolling stock of the United States)
    locomotives and railroad cars were designed by the United States Railroad Administration, the nationalized rail system of the United States during World...
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    Rail speed limits in the United States are regulated by the Federal Railroad Administration. Railroads also implement their own limits and enforce speed...
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    the longest railroad in New England. Maine Central had expanded to 1,358 miles (2,185 km) when the United States Railroad Administration assumed control...
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    The United States Social Security Administration (SSA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government that administers Social Security, a social...
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    Aviation Administration, the Federal Highway Administration, the Federal Railroad Administration, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. As...
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  • under the Federal Possession and Control Act, creating the United States Railroad Administration (USRA). It took control of the railways on 28 December 1917...
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    USRA 0-6-0 (category Standard gauge locomotives of the United States)
    designed under the control of the United States Railroad Administration, the nationalized railroad system in the United States during World War I. This was...
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    United States Railroad Administration during World War I. In the original documentation in the creation of the service, all Class I railroad companies...
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  • Pickering Valley". Railway World: In Which is Incorporated the United States Railroad and Mining Register. Quarto Volume 3: 1028. October 27, 1877 – via...
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    the largest narrow-gauge railroad network in North America with 1,861 miles (2,995 km) of track interconnecting the states of Colorado, New Mexico, and...
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    United States Railroad Administration. A period of relative labor harmony followed, marked by the establishment of the 8-hour day across the railroad...
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    William Gibbs McAdoo (category United States Railroad Administration)
    administration of his father-in-law President Woodrow Wilson. A member of the Democratic Party, he also represented California in the United States Senate...
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  • upheld in Schenck v. United States. The railroads were also nationalized during the war as the United States Railroad Administration. Following the war...
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  • 0-8-0 (section United States)
    The USRA 0-8-0 was a USRA standard class, designed by the United States Railroad Administration during World War I. This was the standard heavy switcher...
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  • USRA 0-8-0 (category Standard gauge locomotives of the United States)
    designed under the control of the United States Railroad Administration, the nationalized railroad system in the United States during World War I. This was...
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    USRA Light Mikado (category Standard gauge locomotives of the United States)
    designed under the control of the United States Railroad Administration, the nationalized railroad system in the United States during World War I. This was...
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  • 1917, after the United States entered World War I. The United States Railroad Administration introduced changes to support the war effort. It standardized...
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    USRA Light Pacific (category Standard gauge locomotives of the United States)
    designed under the control of the United States Railroad Administration, the nationalized railroad system in the United States during World War I. It was the...
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    others favored extending government control of railroads under the United States Railroad Administration, Congress passed the Esch–Cummins Act, which restored...
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    service that operated in the United States from 1918 to 1975. REA arranged transport and delivery via existing railroad infrastructure, much as today's...
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    USRA Heavy Mikado (category Standard gauge locomotives of the United States)
    under the control of the United States Railroad Administration (USRA), the nationalized railroad system in the United States during World War I. These...
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    Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. Since the 1850s, its main political rival has been the Republican Party...
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  • Administration in 1950. Rail transportation in the United States is overseen by the Federal Railroad Administration. Amtrak is a government-owned corporation responsible...
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  • The Lehigh Valley Railroad (reporting mark LV) was a railroad in the Northeastern United States built predominantly to haul anthracite coal from the Coal...
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