He pushed through the construction of the mightiest railroad project ever, the Trans-Siberian Railway.

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Constructed in 1926, the New Mexico hospital was originally frequented by employees of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company, who worked on the railroad that cut through the city.

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As we purl through the ice-strewn waters around the glacier, I find myself thinking not of the prospectors who arrived here from Seattle, but of the 19th-century railway baron, EH Harriman of the Union Pacific Railroad.

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Hunt Transport Services, with 21, 000 containers, and GE Harris Railway Electronics, a joint venture between General Electric and Harris Corp. that tracks railroad cars.

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