Sometimes this gets violent, as was the case in the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, when workers in multiple states went on strike after railroad workers saw their wages get repeatedly cut.

The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 proved especially bloody. In Pittsburgh, working-class protesters clashed with the state militia, resulting in a fire that destroyed 100 locomotives and 2,000 ...

Some historians, including McIlhenny, assert that Gronlund participated in the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 under the name Peter Lofgreen as a member of the St Louis Commune strike committee. As ...

Watco Railroad Company Holdings will purchase Great Lakes Central Railroad, expanding its Michigan presence. The deal is subject to approval by the Surface Transportation Board. Great Lakes ...

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The Tanzania-Zambia Railway’s Mukuba Express crosses the Zambian bush on its way to the Tanzanian border. The rolling stock pictured was delivered to the TAZARA in 2016 from China Aid.

Strikes related to railway ... the Government’s Great British Railways banner, “could be extremely considerable”. He asked: “Would the Secretary of State consider a strike over harmonising ...

Strikes related to railway safety fears are ... under the Government’s Great British Railways banner, “could be extremely considerable”. He asked: “Would the Secretary of State consider a strike over ...

Just two weeks before the outbreak of the First World War, a railway strike that turned into trolley-toppling riots broke out in Saint John. More than a century later, one New Brunswick ...

A Great Western Railway train manager has been jailed for seven years after he sexually assaulted an 18-year-old passenger when asking to check her ticket. Nicholas McMurray, 38, approached the ...