Frog war
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A frog war occurs when a railroad company attempts to cross the tracks of another, and this results in hostilities, with the courts usually getting involved, but often long after companies have taken the matter in their own hands and settled with hordes of workers battling each other. It is named after the frog, the piece of track that allows the two tracks to cross, and is usually part of a level junction or railroad switch.
Sometimes the first railroad was built specifically to delay the completion of the second.
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 in Colorado; three railroads vying for suitable mountain passes.
- December 2, 1870–January 9, 1871: The Erie Railroad vs. Morris and Essex Railroad's Boonton Branch (Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad) at the west end of the Erie's Long Dock Tunnel in Jersey City, New Jersey.
- January 6 and January 7, 1876: The Mercer and Somerset Railway (Pennsylvania Railroad) vs. the Delaware and Bound Brook Railroad (Reading Railroad) in Hopewell, New Jersey.
- August 7–September 13, 1883: The Southern Pacific Railroad vs. the California Southern Railroad (a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway) at Colton, California (just outside of Los Angeles).
- March, 1886: The Erie Railroad vs. the New Jersey Junction Railroad (New York Central Railroad) at King's Bluff near Weehawken, New Jersey.
- September, 1891: The Central Railroad of New Jersey vs. the Jersey City, Newark and Western Railway (Lehigh Valley Railroad) in southern Jersey City, New Jersey.
- March, 1894: The Cape May and Millville Railroad (Pennsylvania Railroad) vs. the Tuckahoe and Cape May Railroad (Reading Railroad) at Woodbine Junction, New Jersey
- 1897: The Pennsylvania Railroad vs. the New Jersey Junction Connecting Railway (Lehigh Valley Railroad) in Jersey City, New Jersey.
United Kingdom
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