How fast could you travel across the U.S. in the 1800s?

Don't know if you've seen this but it is quite interesting...

How fast could you travel across the U.S. in the 1800s?
http://infomapsplus.blogspot.com/2013/0 ... 1800s.html

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Also of interest, I started a thread here on trying to find USA Maps showing growth and decline of American railroads...
http://www.railroad.net/forums/viewtopi ... 36&t=13148
...and have included a boatload of historical RR map links.

I may end up building a simple animation myself (for the infomaps blog above) based on this simple map and track design:
http://users.humboldt.edu/ogayle/Hist%2 ... RR1860.jpg

If any one can find other missing decades (see thread) please post.

This overview of USA RRs is surprisingly not on the web anywhere (as far as I know...)

Thanks, Rich, this is fascinating stuff, but I think you have the wrong hyperlink to your other thread here at railroad.net

I think the proper hyperlink is
http://railroad.net/forums/viewtopic.ph ... 8#p1148198

dj_paige >> Thanks!

Interesting... Moved to General Discussion, since the topic is not specific to New York State.


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