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The financial titans of the day invested in and built them.

Govt helped by donating land for right of way.

Sometimes they didn’t get built and lost money. Cornelius Vanderbilt’s New York Central tried to compete with the Pennsylvania at one time, but the route became the PA Turnpike after he abandoned the effort.

They all ran their own passenger service until Amtrak was formed to bail them out.

The NYCentral and Pennsylvania merged and then went bankrupt, there’s a book about the fall of the Penn Central.

There have been many failed railroad companies in the US.


I feel like filing a DMCA against all 9f the commercial ones. The thin line is getting exact copies.


It sucked when I closed my accounts years ago. I had to do it manually for the most part.




There is some question about the origin date for COVID 19, last I read. Some more traveled people suspect it’s earlier, but I don’t know.

One thing is that most long covid came from version 1.