United States Commissioner Of Railroads
: ''This article is part of the history of rail transport by country series.'' Wooden railroads, called wagonways, were built in the History of the United States, United States starting from the 1720s. A railroad was reportedly used in the construction of the Kingdom of France, French fortress at Louisburg, Nova Scotia, in New France (now Canada) in 1720. Between 1762 and 1764, at the close of the French and Indian War (1756–1763), a gravity railroad (tramway (industrial), mechanized tramway) called Montresor's Tramway was built by British Army, British military engineers up the steep riverside terrain near the Niagara River waterfall's escarpment at the Niagara Portage (which the local Seneca people, Senecas called ''"Crawl on All Fours."'') in Lewiston (town), New York, Lewiston, New York. Railroads played a large role in the development of the United States from the industrial revolution in the Northeastern United States, Northeast (1810–1850) to the settlement of the West ...
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History Of Rail Transport By Country
The history of rail transport began in the BCE times. It can be divided into several discrete periods defined by the principal means of track material and motive power used. Ancient systems The Post Track, a prehistoric causeway in the valley of the River Brue in the Somerset Levels, England, is one of the oldest known constructed trackways and dates from around 3838 BC, making it some 30 years older than the Sweet Track from the same area. Various sections have been designated as scheduled monuments. Evidence indicates that there was a 6 to 8.5 km long '' Diolkos'' paved trackway, which transported boats across the Isthmus of Corinth in Greece from around 600 BC.Cook, R. M.: "Archaic Greek Trade: Three Conjectures 1. The Diolkos", ''The Journal of Hellenic Studies'', vol. 99 (1979), pp. 152–155 (152)Lewis, M. J. T."Railways in the Greek and Roman world", in Guy, A. / Rees, J. (eds), ''Early Railways. A Selection of Papers from the First International Early Railways ...
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