Historical Atlas of the North American Railroad Veronica Gillies ISBN: 9781553652571

ISBN: 9781553652571

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Historical Atlas of the North American Railroad Veronica Gillies ISBN: 9781553652571Description A bestselling historian returns with a visually sumptuous look at how the railroad transformed North America. The railroad changed the face of North America forever, allowing the its economy to become industrialized and catalyzing settlement and growth within the continent. People and goods could now move vast distances, time zones were standardized, and military use of the railroads transformed the nature of war. This latest book in the