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New Orleans And Ohio Railroad
The New Orleans and Ohio Railroad was a railway company which existed briefly in the 1850s and 1860s, mainly in Kentucky. History Despite the name, the New Orleans and Ohio Railroad never actually connected to either New Orleans or Ohio, running at its maximum extent only the 61 miles from Paducah, Kentucky just over the border to Union City, Tennessee, in gauge.New Orleans & Ohio', Confederate Railroads Although chartered in 1852 and under construction in December, 1853, a long hiatus in construction delayed junction with the Mobile and Ohio Railroad until April 11, 1861. The railroad was heavily damaged by the Confederate States Army in 1862. Officers of the company in 1861 were Milton Brown, president, and J. J. Williams, chief engineer.New Orleans & Ohio Officers', Confederate Railroads See also *List of defunct Kentucky railroads References {{Reflist Defunct Kentucky railroads American companies established in 1852 5 ft gauge railways in the United States Railway comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Railway Company
A railway company is a company within the rail industry. It can be a manufacturing firm or an operator. Some railway companies operate both the trains and the track, while, particularly in the European Union, operation of the track is undertaken by infrastructure operators and trains are run by different companies. Railway companies can be private or public. Structure Many countries have a national railway company that owns all track and operates all trains in the country, for instance the Russian Railways (the world's largest rail company by network size). Other countries have many different, sometimes competing, railway companies that operate each their own lines, particularly in the United States and Canada. Countries may have both public and private railway companies, for instance the United States, where the publicly-owned Amtrak exists alongside numerous private operators. In Europe, the EU requires its members to split the railway companies into a number of different comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |