- Frog war
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Sometimes the first railroad was built specifically to delay the completion of the second.
Division of costs
It is generally the case that the second railway to arrive has to bear the cost of the special trackwork needed to cross the first. This includes the cost of any
interlocking tower orsignal box . The latter is not necessarily to the disadvantage of the second railway, since it can signal its trains through the junction ahead of those belonging to the first railway.Oil pipelines
In the early days oil mostly travelled by rail, but gradually oil companies built oil pipelines. Not wanting to lose business, railway companies often refused permission to oil companies for pipelines to cross their tracks.
Bridges and riverboats
Abraham Lincoln participated in a celebrated court case that decided that railroads had as much right to bridge rivers as the riverboat had the right to navigate those rivers. Nova Scotia'sShubenacadie Canal was rendered useless by a railway bridge built across it in 1858.List of frog wars
United States
Note: The first railroad line built is the first one named.
* 1870s:Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad vs.Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad vs.Union Pacific Railroad inColorado ; three railroads vying for suitable mountain passes.
*December 2 ,1870 –January 9 ,1871 : TheErie Railroad vs.Morris and Essex Railroad 'sBoonton Branch (Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad ) at the west end of the Erie'sLong Dock Tunnel inJersey City, New Jersey .
*January 6 andJanuary 7 ,1876 : TheMercer and Somerset Railway (Pennsylvania Railroad ) vs. theDelaware and Bound Brook Railroad (Reading Railroad ) inHopewell, New Jersey .
*August 7 –September 13 ,1883 : TheSouthern Pacific Railroad vs. theCalifornia Southern Railroad (a subsidiary of theAtchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway ) atColton, California (just outside of Los Angeles).
* March,1886 : TheErie Railroad vs. theNew Jersey Junction Railroad (New York Central Railroad ) at King's Bluff nearWeehawken, New Jersey .
* September,1891 : TheCentral Railroad of New Jersey vs. theJersey City, Newark and Western Railway (Lehigh Valley Railroad ) in southernJersey City, New Jersey .
* March,1894 : TheCape May and Millville Railroad (Pennsylvania Railroad ) vs. theTuckahoe and Cape May Railroad (Reading Railroad ) atWoodbine Junction, New Jersey
*1897 : ThePennsylvania Railroad vs. theNew Jersey Junction Connecting Railway (Lehigh Valley Railroad ) inJersey City, New Jersey .United Kingdom
* Battle of Havant
*Nicky Line
* conflict ofLondon and South Western Railway with theLondon, Brighton and South Coast Railway over the building of thePortsmouth branch.
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