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To: Road Walker who wrote (36649)	5/9/2014 11:10:59 AM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Recommended By i-node Respond to of 42652

OT The transcontinental railroad didn't make economic sense, then. It did make sense a couple of decades later when a private cross country railway was built. Without the government involvement there may have been a bit of a delay but if government funded transcontinental railroads were not built, there would have been more reason to build a private one (or more than one) before the Great Northern Railroad. The basic idea made sense at the time, unlike HSR (except perhaps in very limited areas) now.