Railway history: everything you wanted to know
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The History of Railways Podcast
In America by 1916 they had 254 000 miles of railway. That's 86 years of building railway the first one was 1830. The railways were the key to capitalist development I mean nothing else could have had so much investment poured into them and had such a huge effect.
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