Category: Empire on Railways*
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Major Railways in China’s Lower Yangtze Region
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M189 Creator: Yanwei Yang ’21 Computer Science Railway transportation has a significant impact on regional economic development. In the history of modern China, the completion of the Shanghai-Nanjing and Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo railways, the railroad network demonstrated strong technical and cost advantages and changed the traditional transportation pattern in the Shanghai-Nanjing-Hangzhou area. Among them, the…
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The Chinese Eastern Railway in the Context of Czarist Russia
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M096 Creator: Katya Mueller ’20 International Relations The Chinese Eastern Railway was built to continue the Russian Trans-Siberian Railway through Manchuria to reach Vladivostok. Created at the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, it has been involved in the Boxer Uprising, the Russo-Japanese War and the Sino-Soviet Conflict. Though small and unassuming,…
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Deportation to Extermination Camps by Rail in Western and Central Europe – 1942
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M095 Creator: Jasper Lemberg ’21 Data Science By 1942, the European rail system was a dense forest of lines that reached just about everywhere in the continent. Germany was well aware of this and used it as often as possible during World War II, including during the Holocaust. To do this, they…
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Major Railroads in the Second Sino-Japanese War
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M094 Creator: Andrew Hodge ’22 Mechanical Engineering In 1937, the Second Sino-Japanese War began in China. Railways played a pivotal role for the Chinese military to transport troops across China’s extensive land mass. But as the Japanese military progressed, they began to control areas of track that were then used for their…
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The Transcontinental Railroad in American Native Land
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M093 Creator: Elias Neuman-Donihue ’22 Computer Science In 1862, President Lincoln signed the Pacific Railway Act, paving the way for a railroad spanning from Nebraska to California and connecting the U.S’s holdings on either side of the Great Plains region. At the time of the Act, the United States was composed of…
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The Berlin-Baghdad Railroad 1899-1940
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M092 Creator: Mark Mychajuk ’20 International Relations Designed and largely built by Imperial Germany prior to World War 1, the Berlin-Baghdad Railroad was an act of Imperialism. Germany hoped to gain access to Middle Eastern oil in the Ottoman Empire and new routes of attack on the colonial possessions of Britain and…
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HSR in China (2020)
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M091 Creator: Monica Yile Hu ’21 Mathematics The 2010s is a golden era for China’s high-speed rail development. The mileage of high-speed rail has exceeded 35,000 kilometers. Two maps show the rapid development of high-speed rail in the past decade. In 2020, the High-Speed Rail has reached north to Harbin, South to…
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Railways and Immigration, 1865-1914
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M090 Creator: John Fowell ’20 Geology As immigrants arrived in the United States looking for a new life, they used the railways to travel west into the American continent. They arrived in East Coast cities, like New York and Boston and headed into the Great Lakes and Midwest to places like Buffalo,…
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The Integration of High-Speed Railways & Airline in Lower Yangzi Region
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M089 Creator: Haomin Hu ’20 Studio Arts
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Railway and Iran’s International Connections and Communication
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M088 Creator: Jiahang Wu ’23 History Iran’s global connections and ambition is very much reflected by its railroad’s developments. This map shows most operating railways in Iran and the major foreign lines (in orange). Iranian lines with international connection are highlighted in red. Iran’s railway has become a critical transportation hub, and…