railroad construction
Building train routes
Railroad construction is the building of railway infrastructure—laying track, grading roadbeds, constructing bridges and tunnels.
The term evokes the massive 19th-century projects that connected continents: Thousands of Chinese laborers died during railroad construction in the American West.
Today it includes maintenance and expansion of existing rail networks.
- railway tracksMetal guides for trains
- civil engineersProfessionals designing public infrastructure
- land surveysBoundary and elevation measurements
- viaductsElevated bridges over valleys
- excavatorsMachines for digging earth
steam shovels · ballast · surveying · sleepers · spike driving · crossings · culverts · embankments · electricians · bridge design · rail bed · cranes · right-of-way · switches · laborers · Chinese laborers · welders · machine operators
- 19th Century Industriessteel mill, textile mill, coal mine, oil company, factory
- Siberian historySiberian exile, Cossacks, furs, explorers, trappers
- colonial enterprisesBritish East India Company, Dutch East India Company, East India Company, Hudson's Bay Company, chartered companies
- Ottoman ReformsTanzimat reforms, secularization, military reform, military reforms, education reform
railroad constructionhighway construction
Building large paved routes
road building · bridge construction · subway construction · tunnel construction
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