Portal:US Railways/Did you know
From TrainSpottingWorld, for Rail fans everywhere
- ...that the amount of corruption in the way the Oregon and California Railroad sold the land grants it received was so great that US President Theodore Roosevelt made a special effort to "clean up the O&C land fraud mess, once and for all!"?
- ...that the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad crosses the border between Colorado and New Mexico eleven times on the section between Antonito and Osier?
- ...that the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway was operated as a subsidiary of Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) from 1888 to 1960, then was reorganized as an independent railway, then folded into Soo Line Railroad, another CP subsidiary?
- ...that the Green Mountain Cog Railway in Maine was built in 1883 following the designs in the Marsh patents developed for the Mount Washington Cog Railway, which opened in 1868?
