5 northern states had over 2,000 miles of track
30,000 miles
At the start of the war there was 1,016 miles of railroad and it began to drop as the war wore on since both sides began to destroy the tracks. In 1862 there were 720 miles, 1863 574 miles, 1864 947 miles, 1865 819 miles of track. Only in 1866 did the miles of track at 1404 become larger than before the war. By 1879 there was 5,006 miles of track.
From the end of the US Civil War in 1865, railroad construction boomed. By 1900 the US had 200,000 miles of railway track. This exceeded the total tracks of Europe.
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The first US railroad was in Massachusetts, then Pennsylvania. New Jersey is one state that has retained some of the track from the early 1800's.
There are approximately 233,000 miles of railroad track in the United States and back in 1840 there were 21,000 miles of railroad track
Non of your answers are right, its either, 738,00 miles 2,280,000 miles 395,000 miles, I promise!
68,000 miles
A railroad will be given sufficient land for laying fifty miles of track in a state
A railroad will be given sufficient land for laying fifty miles of track in a state
1774 miles
17,166 km (10,669 miles)
Almost 31,000 miles.
texas
The first railroad track in the United States was the Baltimore to Ohio Railroad, which went through Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Ohio
A railroad will be given for thirty miles of land in a territory for the purpose
32,000 miles of track