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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: i-node who wrote (627829)9/12/2011 12:01:57 PM
From: Brumar892 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 1577043
 
He knows the Great Northern RR proved that wrong.

The Great Northern was the only privately funded, and successfully built, transcontinental railroad in United States history. No federal land grants were used during its construction, unlike every other transcontinental railroad built. It was one of the few transcontinental railroads to avoid receivership following the Panic of 1893.
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The Great Northern was built in stages, slowly to create profitable lines, before extending the road further into the undeveloped Western territories
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