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Your proposal is fairly modest compared to some of the ideas out there. In his wildly enthusiastic 1860 book The Central Gold Region, William Gilpin claimed th
by akamaka 2y ago
Your proposal is fairly modest compared to some of the ideas out there.
In his wildly enthusiastic 1860 book The Central Gold Region, William Gilpin claimed that the Mississipi Basin could support at population of 1.2 billion people, and was destined to become the “world’s amphitheatre”, with all of the world’s trade running through it in a grand “Asiatic and European Railway”.
- germinalphrase 2y agoHow optimistic to assume we would invest in trains.
- nradov 2y agoWe did invest in trains. There has been an enormous increase in the amount of freight moved by rail since 1860. https://www.up.com/customers/track-record/tr120120-freight-rail-how-much-ships-by-rail.htm https://www.up.com/customers/track-record/tr120120-freight-r...