Buisness Of the Railroad
One of the first big business of 1850s started with the development of the railroad. Before the civil war was the trunk line railroads, witch controlled 500 miles of track each, and had hundreds of employees. The late 1860s and early 1870s the New York central and many other railroads ran through the west. A major accomplishment was set fourth when entrepreneurs completed the first Transcontinental line, and construction was a hard and exspecive task. ( Even the largest textile mills employed fewer than a thousand people , and a handful were capitalized at more than 1 million dollars.) (pg 53) Railroads were growing rapidly across the country all over the United States. In the 1880s there was an
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BUSINESS RAILROAD, Benjamin Latrobe, miles track, railroad business,
Approximate Word count = 491
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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