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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

zipplewrath

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1. It was monumental

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon Jun 17, 2019, 02:19 PM

Jun 2019

They ran roughshod over alot of people to build that thing. But there's no doubt that one way or another it was going to be built. And the value to the country was enormous.

But it's probably a more apt comparison to the Interstate Highway system than the Moon Shot. No one knew how to build the rockets, or do the orbital mechanics to go to the moon when they started. They knew how to build trains and tracks.

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Building the Transcontinental Railroad, the moonshot of the 19th century [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2019 OP

It was monumental zipplewrath Jun 2019 #1

they ran roughshod over the US treasury too cojoel Jun 2019 #2

Building a railroad thru western mountains was cutting edge HeartlandProgressive Aug 2019 #4

The 2011/2014 tv series Hell On Wheels was about building that railway dixiegrrrrl Jun 2019 #3