Apparently, this was a very famous early railroad.

He assisted in the construction of early railroads in Europe.

This early railroad was constructed during 1793-4 by the engineer John Dadford.

He had a unique ability to assemble the necessary resources to build early railroads, although he left the routine work of operations to others.

Beijing's earliest railroads were designed, financed and built under the supervision of foreign concerns.

Some early railroad flattened cents were then hand engraved with the date and location.

Perhaps more importantly, most early railroads did not interconnect.

The early railroad had freight and passenger service.

It was largely funded by local bonds and never enjoyed the success of the earlier railroads.

In the American Midwest new highways often parallel early railroads.