It is also expected to cost the railroad 2 million of its 81 million annual riders.
Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1883-1869 By Stephen E. Ambrose.
I've been riding the railroad 10 years and this was my third break-in.
The Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad (304-636-9477; www.mountainrail.com) runs a passenger rail route along the river.
Alaska Railroad, (800) 844-0552, www.akrr.com, has daily service between Anchorage and Talkeetna in the summer.
Admission: $5, age 10 and under, $2. Mount Hood Railroad, 110 Railroad Avenue, (800) 872-4661, www.mthoodrr.com, offers a four-hour excursion from March to the week before Christmas for $23 and $15 for children 2 to 12.
So did Carl Jones, a garbage truck driver, who said he had contacted the railroad 7 to 10 times about Crossing 123, according to court records.
A 3.5-mile tunnel (the Woodhead) of the Manchester-Sheffield Railroad (1839 45) was driven from five shafts up to 600 feet deep.
The Metro-North Railroad (800-638-7646; www.mta.infrequentruns frequentrainsns from Grand Central Terminal on the Hudson Line (to Poughkeepsie); weekend round trips are $20.
Another Park Service site, Researching and Interpreting the Underground Railroad (www.cr.nps.gov/history/exugrr/exuggr1.htm), points out the pitfalls of oral history and local legend, while providing a bounty of potential sources.
Growth was sustained by the arrival of the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad (1884; now Northwestern Pacific) and the founding of Dominican University of California (1890).
