Volume 11 , Issue 39

1880 - Transportation

A pooling agreement signed February 2, 1880, resolved disputes among the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe; the Union Pacific; the Kansas Pacific; and the Denver, Rio Grande and Western.

The Denver, Rio Grande obtained exclusive rights to build a line from Pueblo through the Royal Gorge to Leadville via a 3-foot narrow-gauge line, which it paid the Santa Fe $1.4 million for work done by the Santa Fe on the Royal Gorge, and it agreed not to build a line to Santa Fe, provided that the Atchison, Topeka kept out of Denver and Leadville with its standard 56.5 inch track.

The "Chattanooga Choo Choo" got its name March 5, 1880 from a newspaper reporter covering the resumption of through passenger service between North and South. A Cincinnati Southern Railroad wood burner chugs out of Cincinnati and passes through Chattanooga, Tennessee, en route to New Orleans.

Elevated steam trains rumble up and down New York's Second, Third, and Sixth Avenues.
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