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Originally Posted by R Leo
Railroads didn't suffer much. Most of that trackage was built on land given to them by the US government.
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That was what I was going to say. In some cases the right of way land was just the beginning, the government also gave them additional land to sell to help pay for the cost of building the railroads.
Didn't you ever wonder how they managed to shoot those railroads across the whole country in one fell swoop?
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