Well, if your getting the picture of railroads being a whole different thing then today, well it isn't. The railroads look like the ones we use today and they have no difference between them. Don't be offended but who told you that railroads look different then today. Well the trains have changed. Don't fully depend on my answer, and try on www.Google.com if you want to be sure that my answer is correct.
Amtrak trains typically have a Ge Genesis P42dc locomotive, sometimes a baggage car, viewerliner,superliner, and or Amfleet cars. Some exceptions are Keystone have Aem 7's and cab cars, Surfliners have California cars and F59phi locos Cascades have the talgo set with F59phi locomotives.
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yes google and look
when they felt like it
look in ss text book
Railroads were famous that time
To build railroads
The Great Northern railroads enabled the railroads to earn money by hauling goods both east and west, instead of lumbar like other railroads
cog railroads are yellow trains railroads are black
Railroads- apex
Railroads mainly carry trains. Railroads mainly carry trains.
The south had more miles of railroad then the north in the 1860's
What you are asking sounds like a homework question. Although it is your responsibility to learn from homework assignments, railroads allowed goods to be moved at rates faster than ever.
Railroads. -------------- Weapons, not railroads.