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Trains

Railroads that crossed a continent.

Train documentaries about the railroads that crossed a continent: the routes, the tunnels and grades, and the locomotives that ran on them. Each story is told through the engineering problem at its center.

No train episodes are live yet. When they publish, every one gets a page here with a timeline, key numbers, a map, chapters and a numbered list of sources.

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