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Railroads were the chief cause for the unprecedented growth of the Gilded Age. Railroad Barons by building of the Transcontinental Railroad made travel accessible to more people. A trip that would have taken six months now only took six days. It also made the shipping of goods across the company economically feasible and increased sales for businesses that relied on the transportation industry in some way.
Peter Cooper, a B&O railroad worker of New York, engineered the first American-made steam engine in 1830.
helped with the railroad a lot. steel is stronger and mroe durable than iron. because of that, skyscrappers were built and new inventions were made
A whole bunch of Chinamen with hand tools.
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The Pennsylvania Railroad was built by John Edgar Thomson.
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The Trans-Continental Railroad
This purchase was made to obtain a strip on land over which to build a trans-continental railroad to connect the rest of the US with California.
Railroad cross ties made out of wood would float. Concrete railroad ties would not float.
The "iron horse" was the name given to the steam locomotive as the Trans-Continental Railroad was built. It was how the native populations of the areas the railroad was built through could understand and describe a locomotive, which was a technology they had never before seen. The locomotive was described as being "like a horse" because it pulls "wagons" (railroad cars) and travels long distances; it was distinguished from a living horse by being made of iron and only running along the steel rails laid down by workers.
the money from railroad would pay for taxes and the mortgage