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This is difficult to answer because depending upon the area and the railway, and era, the answer is different. The early railroads used wooden rails with steel straps on top, which was followed by iron rails. Initially, these were built on stone "sleepers", but later were built on wooden sleepers or ties. In the Southern US, many railroads were built on "stilts", essentially bridges because of the wetlands/swamps they travelled through.
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Which western industry grew most rapidly after railroads were built into the West?
Catle Rasing
When were railroads built?
1557.
What are the disadvantages of railroads?
A disadvantage of railroads is that they are expensive to built and maintain. Also, once the infrastructure is built it is hard to reroute trains.
What are disadvantages of railroads?
A disadvantage of railroads is that they are expensive to built and maintain. Also, once the infrastructure is built it is hard to reroute trains.
What was on advantage of railroads?
They could be built almost anywhere. (apex)
How did the transcontinental railroads differ from railroads in Europe?
It was built by private enterprise, while Europeans railroads were government projects.
Most early railroads in the US were built in the?
The first American Railroad was built in the North, called the Baltimore and Ohio, or B&O Railroad.
When where railroads built?
in the early 1800's
Who built railroads in California?
Stanford and Crocker.
Where did the first American railroads built?
In the South
Why were railroads built in Arizona?
Railroads were built all over the country. This was to help people travel from one end of the country to the other more easily.
Where were the first America railroads built?
1830.
