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GOVERNMENT REGULATION OF RAILROADS:

• INTRODUCTION
• STATE REGULATION
• FEDERAL REGULATION
• EARLY 20TH-CENTURY REGULATION
• THE DEPRESSION YEARS
• POSTWAR ENACTMENTS
• DEREGULATION MOVEMENTS

RAILROADS:

• INTRODUCTION
• RAILS
• Wrought-Iron and Steel Rails
• Joints
• GAUGES
• TIES AND BALLAST
• ROADBED AND ROUTE
• ELECTRIFICATION
• PASSENGER CARS AND SERVICE
• Sleeping Cars
• Amtrak
• Passenger Service in Other Countries
• FREIGHT CARS AND SERVICE
• ADVANCES IN ROLLING-STOCK DESIGN
• TERMINALS AND YARDS
• LABOR
• RAILROADS IN THE UNITED STATES
• The Spread of Rail Networks
• Mid-20th-Century Mergers
• INTERNATIONAL RAILROADS
• Canada
• Latin America
• Europe
• United Kingdom
• Russia
• Asia
• Japan
• India
• China
• Southern Africa
• North Africa
• Western Africa
• East Africa
• Australia and New Zealand

LOCOMOTIVES:

• INTRODUCTION
• EARLY HISTORY
• STEAM LOCOMOTIVES
• DIESEL-ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVES
• TURBINE-ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVES

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GOVERNMENT REGULATION OF RAILROADS
GOVERNMENT REGULATION OF RAILROADS Government Regulation of Railroads, regulation by state and federal governments of the rates, service, operation, finance, construction and abandonment, and consolidation of railroads in the United States. See also Railroads. The federal government has been regulating the railroad industry since 1887 when the Interstate Commerce Act was passed. In 1970 United States Congress created the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak), which took over operation of most intercity passenger trains. This railroad yard serves the city of Hutchinson, Kansas, a center in the American Midwest for the trade and shipping of wheat. GOVERNMENT REGULATION OF RAILROADS

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