> Did taxpayers get slammed when we built the transcontinental RR? Heh, I don't know much about the history of the transcontinental railroad in the US, but up

> Did taxpayers get slammed when we built the transcontinental RR? Heh, I don't know much about the history of the transcontinental railroad in the US, but up here in Canada it was relatively cheap because... well... to be blunt, we used primarily Chinese labour and did not give a single crap about whether or not they died building it.