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A railway museum is a museum that explores the history of all aspects of rail related transportation, including: locomotives (steam, diesel, and electric), railway cars, trams, and railway signalling equipment. They may also operate historic equipment on museum grounds.
Chicago Union Station is named a union station, like many train stations across the United States that were shared by several railroad companies. [6] The station is the third union station to occupy the site between West Adams Street and West Jackson Boulevard. The station is known by the acronym CUS, as well as by its Amtrak station code CHI.
New York, Auburn and Lansing Railroad (later Central New York Southern Railroad) [2] New York and Stamford Railway [1] New York State Railways: Composed of Oneida Railway, [2] Rochester and Eastern Rapid Railway, [2] Rochester and Sodus Bay Railway, [2] and Utica and Mohawk Valley Railway [2] New York, Westchester and Boston Railway [1] Niagara ...
The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) is a regional public transportation authority [5] that operates bus, rapid transit, commuter rail, light rail, and electric trolleybus services for nearly four million people throughout five counties in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
This list of museums in Minnesota encompasses museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
During the 1950s and 1960s and what many consider the “Golden Age” of air travel, flight attendants became a coveted, well-respected, and glamorous profession. ... right hand on the guard rail ...
Michigan (/ ˈ m ɪ ʃ ɪ ɡ ən / ⓘ MISH-ig-ən) is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest region of the United States.It borders Wisconsin to the southwest in the Upper Peninsula, and Indiana and Ohio to the south in the Lower Peninsula; it is also connected by Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, and Erie to Minnesota and Illinois, and the Canadian province of Ontario.
The Catholic population in the United States grew to 3.1 million by 1860 (or approximately 10 percent of the total U.S. population of 31.4 million), [132] [133] to 6.3 million by 1880 (or approximately 13 percent of the total U.S. population of 50.2 million), [134] [135] and further to 19.8 million by 1920 (or approximately 19 percent of the ...