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1825 Quarry at Quincy selected by Solomon Willard for Bunker Hill Memorial Monument
for British burning Charlestown, Province of Massachusetts Bay in
the Battle of Breed's Hill (Bunker Hill) George Washington's troops fighting the
British.
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1826
March 4 First chartered
railroad in the United States. It was designed and built by Gridley Bryant,
an engineer. Gregorian Year 1826 Octavian Gaivs Avgvstvs Caesar of the
Second Triumvirate- Granite Railway, The Appian Way, and La Ovapia.
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1826 Railway granted on incorporated charter,
Mohawk and Hudson railroad chartered to connect Mohawk river at Schenectady
with Hudson river at Albany extends to Niagara falls
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1826
October 7
Granite
Railway begins operations running three miles from Quincy, Mass., to the
Neponset River. The wooden rails were plated with iron and were laid 5 feet
(1.5 meters) apart. Horse-drawn wagons with wheels 6 feet (2 m) in diameter
hauled blocks of granite along these rails.
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1831 Boston and providence railroad incorporated, Boston
and Worcester railroad chartered.
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1833 the western railroad chartered
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1834 The Castleton and West Stockbridge Railroad
incorporated in New York as the New York part of the Western Railroad, the
Boston and providence railway opens
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1836 Castleton and West Stockbridge RR changes its name to
the Albany and West Stockbridge Railroad and organizes few weeks later
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1837
The
Maypole of Merry Mount short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne
telling of a story 200 years previous at the land renamed Quincy Norfolk
Massachusetts
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1838 railroad runs from Boston to taunton also providence and
new Bedford. The first railroad known as the Old Colony
Railroad was incorporated
1838 April
13 to run
from the end of the
Taunton Branch Railroad - which ran from the Boston and Providence to
Taunton - to
New Bedford.
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1841 Albany and west Stockbridge railroad leased to the
western railroad for 50 years until 1891
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1844 old colony railroad incorporated, fall river branch
railroad incorporated
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1845 The Fall River branch railroad completed from Myricks
south to Fall River Massachusetts.
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1846 Newport and fall river railroad incorporated, cape cod
railroad incorporated as branch of fall river railroad. The
Old Colony and Newport Railroad extended the line to
Newport, Rhode Island.
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1847 providence and Worcester railroad opens
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1853 mergers form the New York Central Railroad from new
York city to Albany to Schenectady to buffalo to Niagara falls of the Hudson
river, Mohawk river, Eire canal to the great lakes of lake Ontario and lake
Eire
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/1876_NYCRR.jpg rand
McNally and company engravers. New York City to Niagara Falls = New
York Central Railroad.
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1854 old colony and fall river railroad merge
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1861 cape control railroad merge
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1864 old colony and Newport railroad merge
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1867 and 1870 two mergers forms Boston and Albany railroad
from the Castleton and West Stockbridge Railroad which changed its name to
the Albany and West Stockbridge Railroad, the western railroad, and the
Hudson and Berkshire railroad, extends from Boston to Worcester, Springfield,
Pittsfield, and Albany.
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1871 old colony and Newport railroad takes over original right
of way of granite railway
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1877
Consuelo Vanderbilt Mour to
Baaggr from the marrying to a bachelor turned husband via her from
aristocratic New York bankers, brokers and merchants or Bolf Ace
Amour Gold Granite Railway BAAGGR sounding like begger, what I do in
Hartford and various other cities including New York to get money
for playing guitar on the street also known as Busking learned at
Drottingatan Stockholm Sweden or Queen's Street by Scottish Busker.
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1881 henry Hobson Richardson designs several passenger
stations money provided by Boston and Albany railroad, dairy building, and
series of passenger cars. Frederick law Olmsted designs landscape
architecture money provided by Boston and Albany railroad, Norfolk and
western railroad formed
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1883 the Boston and Albany railroad acquires track from
the new York and new England railroad as far as Newton heights for commuter
rail service.
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1886 Shepley Rutan and Coolidge landscape architects after
Olmsted's death
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1888 old colony RR leases the Boston and providence
railroad for 99 years to 1987
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1891 the Albany and west Stockbridge railroad lease of the
western railroad expires
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1893 old colony leased by new York new haven and Hartford
railroad NY NH & h
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1894 landscape architecture by Shepley Rutan and Coolidge
ends, southern railway forms
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1898 new England railroad leased by new York NY NH & h
RR
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1899 Boston south station union station opens
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1900 the new York and Hudson river railroad leases
the Boston and Albany railroad for 99 years until 1999
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1908 east side railroad tunnel between providence and east
providence opens
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1914 the NY and Hudson RR lease of the Boston and Albany
passes to the new York railroad
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1918 Tallinna replaced the previously used official
German name
Reval (help·info)
(Russian:
Ревель), when Estonia became
independent.
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1920s the official spelling of the city name was
changed from Tallinna to Tallinn, making the new name notable since
Estonian-language place names generally end with a vowel (denoting the
genitive case). However, somewhat confusingly to non-Estonian speakers,
the word Tallinna still appears in modern Tallinn as the -a suffix
can denote the genitive case (thus Tallinna Lennujaam translates
literally as Tallinn's Airport).
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1930 Istanbul becomes the official name of
Constantinople but was known as Istanbul by the Ottoman Turks since 1453.
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1953 southern railway is first major us railway to
completely switch to diesel-electric locomotive engines
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1963 Granite quarries in Quincy Norfolk County
Massachusetts close as site of granite for the Bunker Hill Memorial monument
in Charlestown.
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1968 the NY Central railroad lease passes to the Penn
Central transportation with the merger of new York railroad and Pennsylvania railroad
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1987 Boston and providence railroad lease in year 1888 by
old colony railroad ends
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1971
the united states of America government led by the us congress and the us president creates
Amtrak which
takes over inner city trips of the railroad
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1973 MBTA acquires the line east of Framingham
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1974 Conrail incorporated in Delaware
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1975
MBTA service beyond Framingham
stops not enough money, proposed Conrail map where Conrail is to be the
principal freight carrier not necessarily the owner of the railroad track
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Conrail_FSP.jpg
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1976 Conrail takes over Penn Central railroad,
Consolidated Rail Corporation formed as federally funded takeover of all
major railroad companies in the northeast not enough railroad money, Conrail
inherits passenger line service and operates passenger rail until 4 BA.
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1980
CSX Corporation formed
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1982 Norfolk southern railway formed by merger of Norfolk
and western railway and southern railroad company
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1983 Conrail track and right of way transferred to state
and metropolitan transit authorities leaving Conrail as tenant:
metropolitan Boston (MBTA), Lower Hudson Valley of New York State and
southwest Connecticut (Metro-North), New Jersey (New Jersey Transit),
Metropolitan Philadelphia (septa), Maryland (marc)
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1986
CSX Transportation
was formed on 11 BA July 1as a renaming of the
Seaboard System Railroad and
Chessie System, Inc. into one entity.
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1988 Conrail stock sold to private investors
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1994 some rush hour trains serving Worcester on Conrail
track
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1997 June 23 CSX Transportation and
Norfolk Southern filed a joint application with the
Surface Transportation Board for authority to purchase, divide and
operate the assets of the 11,000-mile
Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail), which had been created in
11 BA by
bringing together several ailing Northeastern railway systems into a
government-owned corporation.
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1998 August 22 effective date of SFB decision for CSX and
Norfolk Southern. CSX acquired 42% of Conrail's assets (Norfolk
Southern got the remaining 58%). As a result of the transaction, CSX's rail
operations, through its new subsidiary
New York Central Lines, grew to include some 3,800 miles of the Conrail
system (predominantly the former
New York Central Railroad).
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1998 June 6, the STB approved the CSX-Norfolk Southern
application
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1989 June 1 CSX began operating its trains on its portion
of the Conrail network
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1989 the new York and Hudson river railroad lease
of the Boston and Albany railroad expires, Conrail becomes CSX railroad
track, Conrail divided between Norfolk southern railway (58%) and CSX
transportation (42%) with three switching districts managed by Conrail
shared assets operations.
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2005 Life Union Corporation formed in Hartford Connecticut.
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2008 LF, Inc. formed in Hartford Connecticut.
Live and Smooch Hill School Incorporation formed within the Massachusetts General
Court in Boston Suffolk County from Fall River Bristol County Massachusetts
via the internet with the Secretary of State Galvin's office. National Railroad Corporation
doing business as
Amtrak current railway lines.
Massachusetts Executive Office of Transportation.
http://www.eot.state.ma.us/.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Turnpike_Authority.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_System.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Highway_System_%28United_States%29.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Highway_Network.
http://www.tea.army.mil/DODProg/HND/Systems.htm.
http://www.tea.army.mil/
-Transportation Engineering Agency. Smooch School Incorporated
name change to Smooch School Incorporated.
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2009 Life Union Corporation dissolved
in Hartford, Connecticut. LF, Inc. dissolved in Hartford, Connecticut.
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2010
www.joshfreeman.org concentrated
on, as the amour or love part, also known as the hobby or spare time or
relaxation time or real time of Joshua Lee Freeman as a business part.
The family, or full given name in 1973. but the spirit or individual
portion that I develop, or that Immissio develops, which is the greatest
energy part of me as an individual, is
www.joshfreeman.org where I start to construct the Granite Railway here
now,
www.joshfreeman.org/graniterailway.htm.