The Great Railroad Revolution: The History of Trains in America by Christian Wolmar

The Great Railroad Revolution: The History of Trains in America

Christian Wolmar
PublicAffairs; 1 edition
Sep 2012
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America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore Ohio linethe first American railroadin the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the way that people lived thanks to the speed and convenience of train travel. Promoted by visionaries and built through heroic effort, the American railroad network was bigger in every sense than Europes, and facilitated everything from long-distance travel to commuting and transporting goods to waging war. It united far-flung parts of the country, boosted economic development, and was the catalyst for Americas rise to world-power status.Every American town, great or small, aspired to be connected to a railroad and by the turn of the century, almost every American lived within easy access of a station. By the early 1900s, the United States was covered in a latticework of more than 200,000 miles of railroad track and a series of magisterial termini, all built and controlled by the biggest corporations in the land.
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Published 2012
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