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by Brian Fogarty
What did you do today that you couldn't do before railroads?
Before automobiles and airplanes, you could eat fresh seafood in Chicago. You could go to a clothing store in Denver and pick out an outfit that suited your style. And you could root for your favorite major-league baseball team.
But you couldn’t have done any of those things before the railroads came. This book will have you thinking in surprising ways about how railroads transformed America from an agrarian backwater to an industrial colossus and world power—but mostly about the myriad little things we take for granted in our everyday life.
