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With modern trucks, we so easily forget how important railways were to building our infrastructure.

The narrow guage railroad was cheaper and more effective than any road. As in, it carried loads that were far heavier than any dirt or paved road could provide. And it did it for hundreds of years.

Yes, even the narrow gauge railroads could carry a lot more raw material than trucks, even in the 1930s when truck technology was getting better.

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