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75 relations: Aretas Blood, Argentina, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, Beef, Bergamo, Boston and Albany Railroad, Boxcar, Bristol and Exeter Railway, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Carl Abraham Pihl, Central Pacific Railroad, Charles Moran (railroad executive), Chemin de fer de Lyon à la Méditerranée, Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée, Chief mechanical engineer, Cincinnati, Daniel Drew, Darlington, Decree, Derby railway station, Drammen, Drammenselva, England, Erie Railroad, Floresta, Buenos Aires, France, George Hennet, George Jackson Churchward, George S. Griggs, Ginery Twichell, Great Western Railway, Hitchin, Illinois, Investor, Italy, Jasper Grosvenor, Leicester, Lewisham rail crash (1857), Locomotion No. 1, Manchester Locomotive Works, Matthew Baird, Midland Railway, Milan–Venice railway, Mississippi River, Missouri River, Morris Ketchum, Nebraska Territory, Norway, Norwegian Railway Club, ..., Oglio, Ohio and Mississippi Railway, Palazzolo sull'Oglio, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, Randsfjorden, Robert Forester Mushet, Rocky Mountains, Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works, St. Louis, Steam locomotive, Steel, Thaddeus Fairbanks, Thomas Rogers (locomotive builder), Track (rail transport), Track gauge, Treviglio, Union Stock Yards, United States, Washington Territory, Weighing scale, Wellington, Western Cape, William Benson Storey, Wrocław Główny railway station, Yeovil Pen Mill railway station, Yeovil–Taunton line. Expand index (25 more) »
Aretas Blood
Aretas Blood (October 8, 1816 – November 24, 1897) was an American businessman from Vermont.
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Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic (República Argentina), is a federal republic located mostly in the southern half of South America.
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Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, often referred to as the Santa Fe or AT&SF, was one of the larger railroads in the United States.
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Beef
Beef is the culinary name for meat from cattle, particularly skeletal muscle.
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Bergamo
Bergamo (Italian:; Bèrghem; from Latin Bergomum) is a city in Lombardy, northern Italy, approximately northeast of Milan, and about from the Alpine lakes Como and Iseo.
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Boston and Albany Railroad
The Boston and Albany Railroad was a railroad connecting Boston, Massachusetts to Albany, New York, later becoming part of the New York Central Railroad system, Conrail, and CSX Transportation.
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Boxcar
A boxcar is a North American railroad car that is enclosed and generally used to carry freight.
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Bristol and Exeter Railway
The Bristol & Exeter Railway (B&ER) was an English railway company formed to connect Bristol and Exeter.
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Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and most populous city of Argentina.
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Cape Town
Cape Town (Kaapstad,; Xhosa: iKapa) is a coastal city in South Africa.
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Carl Abraham Pihl
Carl Abraham Pihl (16 January 1825 – 14 September 1897) was a Norwegian civil engineer and director of the Norwegian State Railways (NSB) from 1865 until his death.
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Central Pacific Railroad
The Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) was a rail route between California and Utah built eastwards from the West Coast in the 1860s, to complete the western part of the "First Transcontinental Railroad" in North America.
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Charles Moran (railroad executive)
Charles Moran (October 31, 1811 – July 22, 1895) was an American business man and president of the Erie Railroad from 1857 to 1859.
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Chemin de fer de Lyon à la Méditerranée
The Chemin de fer de Lyon à la Méditerranée was a short-lived railway company in the south of France.
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Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée
The Compagnie des chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (usually known simply as the PLM) was a French railway company.
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Chief mechanical engineer
Chief mechanical engineer and locomotive superintendent are titles applied by British, Australian, and New Zealand railway companies to the person ultimately responsible to the board of the company for the building and maintaining of the locomotives and rolling stock.
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Cincinnati
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Daniel Drew
Daniel Drew (July 29, 1797 – September 18, 1879) was an American businessman, steamship and railroad developer, and financier.
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Darlington
Darlington is a large market town in County Durham, in North East England.
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Decree
A decree is a rule of law usually issued by a head of state (such as the president of a republic or a monarch), according to certain procedures (usually established in a constitution).
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Derby railway station
Derby railway station, also known as Derby Midland, is a main line station serving the city of Derby in England.
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Drammen
Drammen is a city in Buskerud, Norway.
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Drammenselva
Drammenselva (Drammen River) is a river in Buskerud county, southeastern Norway.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Erie Railroad
The Erie Railroad was a railroad that operated in the northeastern United States, originally connecting New York City — more specifically Jersey City, New Jersey, where Erie's former terminal, long demolished, used to stand — with Lake Erie.
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Floresta, Buenos Aires
Floresta is a neighbourhood located to the west of Buenos Aires.
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France
France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.
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George Hennet
George Hennet (1799–1857) was a railway engineer and contractor.
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George Jackson Churchward
George Jackson Churchward (31 January 1857 – 19 December 1933) was chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway (GWR) in the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1922.
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George S. Griggs
George S. Griggs (1805-1870) was a pioneer master mechanic in the earliest days of railroading in the United States.
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Ginery Twichell
Ginery Twichell (August 26, 1811 – July 23, 1883) was president of the Boston and Worcester Railroad in the 1860s, the Republican Representative for Massachusetts for three consecutive terms and the sixth president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
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Great Western Railway
The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England, the Midlands, and most of Wales.
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Hitchin
Hitchin is a market town in the North Hertfordshire District in Hertfordshire, England, with an estimated population of 33,350.
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Illinois
Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
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Investor
An investor is a person that allocates capital with the expectation of a future financial return.
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Italy
Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.
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Jasper Grosvenor
Jasper Grosvenor (1794–1857) was an American financier of the early to mid 19th century.
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Leicester
Leicester ("Lester") is a city and unitary authority area in the East Midlands of England, and the county town of Leicestershire.
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Lewisham rail crash (1857)
On 28 June 1857, two trains collided just east of Lewisham railway station in London, killing 11 and injuring 30 more.
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Locomotion No. 1
Locomotion No.
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Manchester Locomotive Works
Manchester Locomotive Works was a manufacturing company located in Manchester, New Hampshire, that built steam locomotives and fire engines in the 19th century.
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Matthew Baird
Matthew Baird (1817–1877) was one of the early partners in the Baldwin Locomotive Works.
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Midland Railway
The Midland Railway (MR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1844 to 1922, when it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.
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Milan–Venice railway
The Milan–Venice railway line is one of the most important railway lines in Italy.
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Mississippi River
The Mississippi River is the chief river of the second-largest drainage system on the North American continent, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system.
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Missouri River
The Missouri River is the longest river in North America.
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Morris Ketchum
Morris Ketchum (February 1796 – January 1, 1880) was an American banker and financier of the 19th century.
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Nebraska Territory
The Territory of Nebraska was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from May 30, 1854, until March 1, 1867, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Nebraska.
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Norway
Norway (Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk); Norga), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a unitary sovereign state whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard.
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Norwegian Railway Club
The Norwegian Railway Club (Norsk Jernbaneklubb) is an association which is involved in the preservation of Norwegian museum railways.
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Oglio
The Oglio (Latin Ollius, or Olius; Lombard Òi) is a left-side tributary of the Po River in Lombardy, Italy.
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Ohio and Mississippi Railway
The Ohio and Mississippi Railway (earlier the Ohio and Mississippi Rail Road), abbreviated O&M, was a railroad operating between Cincinnati, Ohio, and East St. Louis, Illinois, from 1857 to 1893.
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Palazzolo sull'Oglio
Palazzolo sull'Oglio (also known as Palasöl in local language) is a city and comune in the Province of Brescia, in the region of Lombardy in northern Italy.
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Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad
The Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St.
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Randsfjorden
Randsfjorden is Norway's fourth-largest lake with an area of.
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Robert Forester Mushet
Robert Forester Mushet (8 April 1811 – 29 January 1891) was a British metallurgist and businessman, born on 8 April 1811, in Coleford, in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England.
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Rocky Mountains
The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range in western North America.
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Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works
Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works was a 19th-century manufacturer of railroad steam locomotives based in Paterson, in Passaic County, New Jersey, in the United States.
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St. Louis
St.
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Steam locomotive
A steam locomotive is a type of railway locomotive that produces its pulling power through a steam engine.
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Steel
Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon and other elements.
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Thaddeus Fairbanks
Thaddeus Fairbanks (January 17, 1796 – April 12, 1886) was an American inventor.
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Thomas Rogers (locomotive builder)
Thomas Rogers (1792 – 1856) was an American mechanical engineer and founder of Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works of Paterson, New Jersey.
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Track (rail transport)
The track on a railway or railroad, also known as the permanent way, is the structure consisting of the rails, fasteners, railroad ties (sleepers, British English) and ballast (or slab track), plus the underlying subgrade.
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Track gauge
In rail transport, track gauge is the spacing of the rails on a railway track and is measured between the inner faces of the load-bearing rails.
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Treviglio
Treviglio (Eastern Lombard: Treì) is a town and comune (i.e. municipality) in the province of Bergamo, in Lombardy, Northern Italy.
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Union Stock Yards
The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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Washington Territory
The Territory of Washington was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 2, 1853, until November 11, 1889, when the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Washington.
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Weighing scale
Weighing scales (or weigh scales or scales) are devices to measure weight.
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Wellington, Western Cape
Wellington is a town in the Western Cape Winelands, a 45-minute drive from Cape Town, in South Africa with a population of approximately 62,000.
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William Benson Storey
William Benson Storey, Jr. (November 17, 1857 – October 24, 1940) was the fifteenth president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
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Wrocław Główny railway station
Wrocław Główny (Polish for Wrocław main station) is the largest and most important passenger station of the southwestern Polish city of Wrocław.
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Yeovil Pen Mill railway station
Yeovil Pen Mill railway station is one of two stations serving the town of Yeovil, Somerset, England.
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Yeovil–Taunton line
| The Yeovil–Taunton line was a railway line in England, built by the Bristol and Exeter Railway (B&ER) to connect its main line with the market town of Yeovil in Somerset.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1857_in_rail_transport
