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[quote user="ICLand"] [quote user="Falcon48"] The land grants to Illinois Central were very different from the later Federal land grants to the trancontinental roads.  I agree the IC grants were likely unnecessary as events transpired. But the IC and the later roads in the midwest weren't building hundreds of miles of line across unproductive territory, as were the transcontinental roads.  [/quote]  Well, that's the point; IC's was an early grant, when politicians thought it was the only way to spur "development," i.e. bribes into their pockets. The lesson was clear: let the market work and the government didn't need to build "hundreds of miles of line across unproductive territory." There is a reason that territory is "productive" or "unproductive." It's called economics. [/quote] But if you have a lot of territory that is unproductive, and it would become productive if you built railroads into it, why not build railroads into it in order to make it productive?
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