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At least partly by buying up other railroads which had been subsidized?

 

GN wasn't a transcon. There weren't and still aren't any transcon railroads.

 

The Great Northern railroad did not reach Seattle until 1893, almost a full quarter-century after the Union Pacific was completed with the driving of the golden spike. His was a much-easier undertaking. He benefitted from superior technology, didn't have to fight Native Americans, and also crossed the continental divide at Marias Pass, the lowest crossing of the Rockies south of the Canada–US border.

Despite having the case tried in his hometown court, James J. Hill was later found to be in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act following his purchase of the Burlington and Northern Pacific railroads, for illegal restraint of trade. He was a robber baron.

 

Neither the GN nor the UP were transcons. The transcon refers to the physical completion of a transcontinental rail line, but no single RR operated, or operates, coast-to-coast.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/03/22/auto-factory-closing-ev/

BELVIDERE, Ill. — Early last year, workers at a Jeep factory here hoped their plant would be converted to an electric vehicle facility as the auto industry revamps for a green-energy future. Engineers came to take measurements for a possible retooling, and rumors spread that electric sports cars were on the agenda.

But those hopes crumbled last month when the corporate parent company, Stellantis, ended production at the 58-year-old plant and laid off roughly 1,200 workers, ripping the heart out of this small town 70 miles northwest of Chicago.

 

Sent the jobs to Italy and Eastern Europe.

 

Drive it in your EV.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/transcontinental-railroad-back-country-byway?

 

How much misdirected hate mail do you think the Bureau of Land Management has received since 2020?

 

All land matters.

 

Whatever happened to those Bundy fucksticks?

 

Not enough, if you ask me.

 

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