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The first type of basic form of railway existed in ancient greek and roman times and it was made to ship stuff from Diolkos to isthmus of corinth and this specific railroad remained for about 650 years.
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Union pacific and Central pacific complete first transcontinetial railway link at promontory summit.
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George Westinghouse establishes the westinghouse air break company
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Strike breaks out against railroads and the pullman palace car company
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Webb C Ball , establishes first railway watch official guidelines for railway chronometers. Congress creates the intertstate commerce commission ICC to regulate railways and ensure fair prices.
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Tokyo makes the very first electric railway the predecessor to Keihin Electric Expressway Opened.
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The first diesel powered railcar enters service in sweden. In austria the first electrified railway was opened in arad and the neighboring vineyards of transportation goods and people reducing travel time from half a day to just one hour.
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These newly made locomotives were shortly introduced to canada one of most largest countries next to the united states.
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U.S. railroads began rapidly replacing their rolling stock with diesel electric units and this continued until the mid 1960's.
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It was built in the United States in the 1960's and linking the well developed railway network of the eastern coast with california.
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The bullet train service was introduced in japan berween tokyo and osaka. Trains average speeds of 100 mph due to congested shared urban tracks with top speeds of 210 kh.
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The british rail ran its last final steam-driven mainline train , named fifteen ginuea special after a programmed withdrawl of steam during 1962-68. It marked the end of 143 years of its public railway use. Thailand's tram line was stop serviced.
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Penn central , The dominant railroad in the northeastern united states became bankrupt. Created only two years earlier in 1968 from a merger of several other railroads it marked the end of long haul private sector US passenger train services.
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The british government passes ownership of track and infrastructure to railtrack with passenger operations later franchised to 25 individual private selector operators and freight services sold outright.
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Many countries adopt high speed rail in an attempt to make rail transport competetive with both road transport and air transport
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Amtrak introduced the acela express on the northeast corridor in the united states.
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Britain first made high speed trail rail opens allowing the trains to run at 217 mph.
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Shanghai Metro overtakes London Underground as the worlds largest urban transit system with 278 systems.
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Total Rail Traffic declined 2.5 percent to 28 million carloads. Coal remains the largest volume at 5.1 million carloads. Coal's volume fell 12 percent in 2015 as natural gas replaces coal and electricity plants. The lower volume better service and faster speed but low fuel prices are giving an advantage to trucking.
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Today the newest locomotives are equipped with the latest electronics and are becoming increasingly more enviromentally friendly as has been seen with newest models. While coal still makes up nearly 50 percent of all freight revenue for railroads other commodities are also important to the industry such as chemicals intermodal and agricultual products.
