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The story of the American railroad (1915)

Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943 · New York, Mentor Assoc. · leaf 15

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can railroads have cost twenty thousand million dollars, and employ over a million and a half men; they have made a great federal government possible, by bringing together commerce and people from the ends of the republic. The railroads are the arteries of civilized states, feeding the body… … THE PEQUEST FILL On the New Jersey "Cut Off" of the Delaware. Lackawanna & Western Railroad. This "cut off" runs from Lake Hopatcong to Slateford and effects a saving of a little over eleven miles. The Pequest Fill Is over three miles long; Its height at the highest point Is HO feet SUPPLEMENTARY…

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