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It is any train that carries freight... or stuff people need. As with all transportation, they provide connections. Factories can ship finished products by freight trains and also get raw materials in by freight trains. They are very important to the economy, and when the railroad boom of the late 1800s was around, a lot of towns sprung up by train tracks because of their connections. Suddenly, people could, and still can, ship things faster than before. Freight trains, then, are trains that carry things that need to be transported by gross quantities at a fair speed.*

*Speed depends on various conditions.

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