List of railway towns in the United States
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This is a list of railway towns in the United States listed by state. The United States has a high concentration of railway towns, communities that developed and/or were built around a railway system. Railway towns are particularly abundant in the midwest and western states, and the railroad has been credited as a major force in the economic and geographic development of the country.[1] Historians credit the railroad system for the country's vast development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as having helped facilitate a "unified" nation.[2]
Alabama[edit]
Alaska[edit]
Arizona[edit]
California[edit]
Colorado[edit]
Georgia[edit]
Idaho[edit]
Pcatello, Idaho
Illinois[edit]
Iowa[edit]
Kansas[edit]
Kentucky[edit]
Maryland[edit]
Missouri[edit]
Montana[edit]
Louisiana[edit]
Nebraska[edit]
Nevada[edit]
New Hampshire[edit]
New Mexico[edit]
New York[edit]
North Carolina[edit]
North Dakota[edit]
Oklahoma[edit]
Oregon[edit]
Pennsylvania[edit]
Tennessee[edit]
Texas[edit]
Wills Point
Utah[edit]
Vermont[edit]
Virginia[edit]
- Clifton Forge, home to Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O) shops.
- Roanoke, home to shops and locomotive works of the Norfolk & Western (N&W).
- Victoria, home to the Virginian Railway (VGN) shops.
Washington (state)[edit]
West Virginia[edit]
- Wheeling[2]
- Harper's Ferry
- Huntington, founded as terminus for Chesapeake & Ohio
Wyoming[edit]
References[edit]
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- ^ a b c d e "Railroads". Dictionary of American History. 2003. Retrieved August 30, 2017 – via Encyclopedia.com.
- ^ a b "Alaska Railroad History". AlaskaTrain. Retrieved August 28, 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Train Towns". True West Magazine. March 1, 2006. Retrieved August 30, 2017.
- ^ a b Robinson, Jessica (September 6, 2013). "Former Northwest Railroad Town Struggles To Keep Last 25 People". Oregon Public Broadcasting. Retrieved August 29, 2017.
- ^ Clark, Earl (August 1971). "Shoot-Out In Burke Canyon". American Heritage. 22 (5). Retrieved March 28, 2007.
- ^ "A Walk Through Time: Discovering Downtown Nampa" (PDF). Preservation Idaho. 2012. Retrieved August 30, 2017.
- ^ Hiatt, Sean. "A Brief History of Wallace, Idaho". Spokane Historical Society. Retrieved August 30, 2017.
- ^ "Ames Origin". Ames Historical Society. Archived from the original on March 22, 2014. Retrieved Mar 21, 2014.
- ^ Pickett, Mary (June 7, 2008). "Laurel at 100: Railroad spurs towns growth". Billings Gazette. Retrieved August 29, 2017.
- ^ Briggeman, Kim (March 14, 2016). "North of paradise: Livingston — Montana's windy, railroad town — is full of quirks and delights". Billings Gazette. Retrieved August 30, 2017.
- ^ Van Hattem, Matt (May 21, 2010). "North Platte: The rise of a railroad town". Trains. Retrieved August 29, 2017.
- ^ a b "History of Railroads in New York State". State of New York. Retrieved August 26, 2017.
- ^ Scheyder, Ernest (November 25, 2014). "Why a small North Dakota town is taking on Big Rail". Reuters. Retrieved August 29, 2017.
- ^ Culp, Edwin D. (1978). Stations West, the Story of the Oregon Railways. New York: Bonanza Books. pp. 44−47. OCLC 4751643.
- ^ a b c Labbe, John T. (1980). Fares, Please: Those Portland Trolley Years. Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers. pp. 108–9. ISBN 0-87004-287-4.
- ^ Deumling, Dietrich (May 1972). The roles of the railroad in the development of the Grande Ronde Valley (masters thesis). Flagstaff, Arizona: Northern Arizona University. OCLC 4383986.
- ^ Rees, Helen Guyton (1982). Shaniko: From Wool Capital to Ghost Town. Portland, Oregon: Binford & Mort. ISBN 0-8323-0398-4.
- ^ Hall, Nancy I. (1994). Carbon River Coal Country. Orting: Heritage Quest Press. p. 251. ISBN 978-0-945-43333-0.