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The railroad boom began in the year

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1862


Around the early 1860's the railroad boom began in the United States The First Transcontinental Railroad in North America was built in the 1860s, this would cause for the start of the Railroad boom.

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The railroad boom began in 1862, when President Lincoln signed the Pacific Railway Act. This act provided for the construction of a transcontinental railroad by two corporations.

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