Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943 · New York, Mentor Assoc. · leaf 11
the enormous increase in long distance freight and passenger traffic which arose after 1875. The grain of the Northwest and the grain and cattle of the Southwest found a market in Europe, and had to be transported to the seaboard. This gave a steady and profitable business to the trunk lines from… … MODERN STATION IN THE FAR WEST still more ponderous rails The western entrance to Yellowstone Park on the Oregon Short and stronger Line Railroad bridges. Freight traf- fic grew till, on the Penn- sylvania low- grade freight line between Harrisburg and New York, regular trains of fifty coal cars…
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