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What is the biggest railroad ?? is't transcontinental or Cornelius Vanderbilt or something else??

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As a result of his vision of what the railroad would mean to the post-Civil War US, he sold virtually all of his shipping interests to invest in railroads. The end result was a railroad empire that was worth the equivalent of $75 billion in today’s dollars by war’s end.

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