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They charged high shipping rates for getting farm products to market.
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∙ 6y agoThe railroads took farmland using eminent domain. In fact, it is still going on today. California is building a high speed rail system and the state has taken farmland through the Central Valley with eminent domain. In the 1800's the farmers fought the railroad in a battle called the Mussel Slough tragedy. Farmers were killed by the railroad men.
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