FreightWaves Classics: Railroads helped the U.S. expand and increased interstate commerce
America s first common carriers are still relevant A Union Pacific train heads to its next destination. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves)
Early beginnings
Railroads were first developed in Great Britain. The first railroads were horse-drawn wagons running on wooden and then iron tracks, or rails…
Wooden railroads were also built in the American colonies and were built exclusively to transport freight. Termed “wagonways,” the earliest were begun in the 1720s. In addition to the British and colonists using wagonways in North America, the French used a wagonway to haul construction materials to their fortress at Louisburg, Nova Scotia, in New France (now Canada) in 1720.
Take a walk through the 19th century at the West Point Foundry Preserve in Cold Spring
News 12 Staff
Updated on:Mar 11, 2021, 3:02pm EST
Tucked away in the Village of
Cold Spring is one of the Hudson Valley’s hidden gems The West Point Foundry
Preserve.
This week’s Road Trip: Close
to Home takes a walk through the 19th century along former rail lines that
brought in raw materials to help shape an important part of the industrial
revolution.
“It’s a 90-acre park that
tells the story of the industrial revolution through the remains of the West
Point Foundry’s historic ironworks that are located here. And it’s also a great
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