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The Great Northern railroad became the most successful transcontinental railroad and was one of the few railroads that was not forcedd into bankruptcy.

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James Hill built the Great Northern Railroad from Wisconsin and Minnesota to Washington State. He did this without federal land grants.

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The Credit Mobilier Scandal became public in 1872.

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During the 1850s and 1860s the federal land grant system gave railroads more than 120 million acres of public land.

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The Central Pacific starting from the west, laid a total of 688 miles of track.

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Each mile of track required 400 rails, and each rail took 10 spikes.

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The Central Pacific Railroad hired about 10,000 worker from China. They got paid about $1 a day.

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By 1900, he United States had more that 200,000 miles of track.

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In 1865 the United States had about 35,00 miles of railroad trace, almost all east of the Mississippi.