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The American Civil War was the world's first full-blown 'railroad war'. The well-developed network in the North was of great importance in serving the Union arm
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The Iron Way
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The Great Railroad Revolution
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America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line -- the first American railroad -- in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the