Travelling by train traces the development of railroad technology in the early 1800s. It explains how the railroad grew and change society throughout the 1800s. Finally, it describes changes in railroad in the 1900s and its status in United States today.
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This book explains how trains made it easier in the 1800s and early 1900s to travel, move goods, and settle the West. In the 1950s, more people traveled by car and airplanes, so the purpose of the railroad changed. Today trains are use primary for moving freight around the country.