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What was the singlemost damaging invention that hurt the railroads?
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smooth roads <br /> <br />when you had the difference between powhole ridden myddy roads or faster smooth trains, it was easy to choose what was more comfortable to ride, or ship goods. once methods started coming out to keep the roads fairly smooth, it was easlier to hop into the automobile or load the goods into a truck to take into another town, and just as comfortable. <br /> <br />And LC. Without gasoline, we wouldn't have had the Doodlebugs :D which were very useful for branch lines.
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