The American Railroad Network, 1861-1890

The American Railroad Network, 1861-1890

Author: George Rogers Taylor

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 1956

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9780252071140

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Rapid population growth in the Great Plains and the American West after the Civil War was the result not only of railroad expansion but of a collaboration among competing railroads to adopt a uniform width for track. This title shows how the consolidation of smaller railroads and the growth of capitalism worked to unify the railroad industry.