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These days they pretty much serve only as shortcuts. Before the Panama Canal was built about 100 years ago, ships travelling from one side of the Americas to the other had to go around the southern tip of Chile. Rivers and canals were the superhighways of the pre-railroad world, but today even the railroads have a hard time competing against the trucking industry with the quality of our highway systems.
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