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Library of Congress Since the end of the Civil War, railroad construction in the United States had been booming ... The nation's first transcontinental railroad had been completed in 1869.

There are 23 miles of railroad in the United States. President Millard Fillmore signs the first Railroad Land Grant Act. By encouraging railroad construction in undeveloped territories ...