You like oil trains running through your community? You feel safe that they won't explode? Or leak? Or derail? Probably not. So it's just great that the rail companies are.
On May 10, 1869, the Transcontinental Railroad was completed when the Central Pacific and Union Pacific lines met at Promontory Point, Utah. The railroad itself was key to the growth.
On October 30, 1837, Nicholas Farwell, a train engineer toiling for the Boston and Worcester Rail Road Corporation fell off a train while at work and had his hand crushed.
Nothing to see here. From 1951.
