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The Underground Railroad?
No. The English have nowhere to build a transcontinental railroad; they are on an island. The US was the first to begin such a railroad - aptly named the First Trascontinental Railroad - and the Russians soon followed with the Trans-Siberian Railway.
The first U.S. railroad line opened and ran in 1830 in Baltimore, Maryland.
The first railroad to connect the east and west coasts of the US was the First Transcontinental Railroad, completed in 1869. The project linked the Central Pacific Railroad from the west and the Union Pacific Railroad from the east at Promontory Summit, Utah.
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The first public railroad in the United States, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O), was chartered in 1827 and began construction in 1828. It officially opened for freight service on January 22, 1828, and passenger service followed in 1830. The B&O played a crucial role in the development of the American rail system.
In the US it was called the Underground Railroad
Belgium and Germany
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.
Seaboard System Railroad was created in 1983.
Seaboard System Railroad ended in 1986.