You can't really tell here, but from this angle you can kind of see (or I could when I took the picture, it's the white distant thing between the trees) the tomb of Cornelius Vanderbilt, which is in a private part of this cemetery because...
railroads
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - SEPTEMBER 13: Workers service the tracks at the Metra/BNSF railroad yard outside of downtown on September 13, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois. Metra, the largest rail service carrying.
On April 24, 1903, Mexican rail workers on the Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles walked off the job over low wages and the unwillingness of the rail baron Henry.
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - SEPTEMBER 13: Workers service the tracks at the Metra/BNSF railroad yard outside of downtown on September 13, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois. Metra, the largest rail service carrying commuters from the suburbs to downtown Chicago, said that it would be forced to suspend...
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - SEPTEMBER 13: Workers service the tracks at the Metra/BNSF railroad yard outside of downtown on September 13, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois. Metra, the largest rail service carrying.
The Biden administration has again shown its pro-union agenda by pressuring the railroad companies to improve upon their offer to their workers and avert could have been an economic disastrous.
On July 1, 1922, the Great Railroad Strike of 1922 begins. Also known as the Railway Shopmen's Strike, this action was the largest railway strike in the United States since the Pullman Strike in 1894. It led to at least ten dead and was the...
On June 24, 1867, Chinese workers building the transcontinental railroad across Sierra Nevada went on strike over the horrific conditions of their work for the Central Pacific Railroad. This remarkable.
On May 20, 1926, the Railway Labor Act passed Congress. This pioneering legislation attempted to end strikes on the most important of the American transportation networks and has proven surprisingly.
On March 2, 1893, President Benjamin Harrison signed the Safety Appliance Act. This critical act finally created a modicum of safety on American railroads, mandating air brakes and automatic couplers years after European nations had done the same thing. Finally, railroad work would become something...
This is the grave of John Edgar Thomson. Born in 1808 in Springfield, Pennsylvania, J. Edgar Thomson grew up in an engineering family of the Transportation Revolution. His father was.
This is the grave of Thomas Alexander Scott. Born in 1823 in Peters Township, Pennsylvania, Scott would become one of the most vile men of the early Gilded Age. He.