In The United States Three New Methods

While No One Railroad Can Completely Duplicate Another Line, Two Or More May Compete At Particular Points

Yet, In 1850 Nearly All The Railroads In The United States Lay East Of The Mississippi River, And All Of Them, Even When They Were Physically Mere Extensions Of One Another, Were Separately Owned And Separately Managed.

As The Contest Proceeded, Public Interest Increased And The Entire Country Watched To See Which Company Would Win The Big Government Subsidies Through The Mountains.

Horses And Mules, And Even Sail Cars, Made More Rapid Progress Than Did The Earliest Locomotive.

When The Scheme For The Construction Of A Railroad From Baltimore To The Waters Of The Ohio River First Began To Take Form, The United States Had Barely Emerged From The Revolutionary Period