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600 BCE
Beginning of The railroad
The first type of basic form of railway existed in ancient greek and roman times and it was made to ship stuff from Diolkos to isthmus of corinth and this specific railroad remained for about 650 years. -
Union pacific Railway
Union pacific and Central pacific complete first transcontinetial railway link at promontory summit. -
Air brake designing
George Westinghouse establishes the westinghouse air break company -
Strikes Break out
Strike breaks out against railroads and the pullman palace car company -
Railroad Chronometers
Webb C Ball , establishes first railway watch official guidelines for railway chronometers. Congress creates the intertstate commerce commission ICC to regulate railways and ensure fair prices. -
Japan Makes Electric Railway
Tokyo makes the very first electric railway the predecessor to Keihin Electric Expressway Opened. -
First Diesel Powered Railcar
The first diesel powered railcar enters service in sweden. In austria the first electrified railway was opened in arad and the neighboring vineyards of transportation goods and people reducing travel time from half a day to just one hour. -
First Diesel locomotive introduced in canada
These newly made locomotives were shortly introduced to canada one of most largest countries next to the united states. -
Introducing Diesel electrics to united states
U.S. railroads began rapidly replacing their rolling stock with diesel electric units and this continued until the mid 1960's. -
The first Transcontinential Railroad
It was built in the United States in the 1960's and linking the well developed railway network of the eastern coast with california. -
Bullet Train
The bullet train service was introduced in japan berween tokyo and osaka. Trains average speeds of 100 mph due to congested shared urban tracks with top speeds of 210 kh. -
British rail ended
The british rail ran its last final steam-driven mainline train , named fifteen ginuea special after a programmed withdrawl of steam during 1962-68. It marked the end of 143 years of its public railway use. Thailand's tram line was stop serviced. -
Bankrupt!
Penn central , The dominant railroad in the northeastern united states became bankrupt. Created only two years earlier in 1968 from a merger of several other railroads it marked the end of long haul private sector US passenger train services. -
Privistation of British Rail
The british government passes ownership of track and infrastructure to railtrack with passenger operations later franchised to 25 individual private selector operators and freight services sold outright. -
1960'S - 2000'S
Many countries adopt high speed rail in an attempt to make rail transport competetive with both road transport and air transport -
Acela Express
Amtrak introduced the acela express on the northeast corridor in the united states. -
High speed In trains ?
Britain first made high speed trail rail opens allowing the trains to run at 217 mph. -
London Underground
Shanghai Metro overtakes London Underground as the worlds largest urban transit system with 278 systems. -
Rail Traffic Declined
Total Rail Traffic declined 2.5 percent to 28 million carloads. Coal remains the largest volume at 5.1 million carloads. Coal's volume fell 12 percent in 2015 as natural gas replaces coal and electricity plants. The lower volume better service and faster speed but low fuel prices are giving an advantage to trucking. -
Railroads Today
Today the newest locomotives are equipped with the latest electronics and are becoming increasingly more enviromentally friendly as has been seen with newest models. While coal still makes up nearly 50 percent of all freight revenue for railroads other commodities are also important to the industry such as chemicals intermodal and agricultual products.
