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Re: The down side to new rail construction |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Sun Apr 15 20:13:28 2012, in response to Re: The down side to new rail construction, posted by Jackson Park B Train on Sun Apr 15 16:00:08 2012. Put what canals out of business? Railroads didn't do that. Besides, canals were government projects, not private concerns like railroads were/are.I take it that you weren't aware that the Erie Canal carried thirteen times the amount of freight that all the competing railroads did, right up to 1901? (You should be proud of the canal's government financing and all.) The canal's usefulness was such that it was necessary to replace it with another canal, that being the New York State Barge Canal. (And that canal system got "replaced" by trucks, when your massive government highways came about.) |
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