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1 September 2025

  • curprev 10:2710:27, 1 September 2025MirtaBermudez88 talk contribs 4,856 bytes +4,856 Created page with "<br>To nineteenth-century Americans, the United States seemed unimaginably vast. Yet they lacked the one thing they needed most to fulfill their destiny: reliable, all-weather transportation. Common roads, canals, and steamboats merely whetted the country's appetite for mobility. One technology in particular -- the "rail road" -- offered dependable, year-round transport anywhere a narrow path for two rails could be carved. It was the tool Americans had been waiting for,..."