USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Railways are a climate-smart and efficient way to move people and freight. Railways promote economic growth while cutting greenhouse gas emissions. They are a clean and compact way to move millions of passengers and millions of tons of goods across countries and continents.

Detailed explanation-2: -Railroads became a major industry, stimulating other heavy industries such as iron and steel production. These advances in travel and transport helped drive settlement in the western regions of North America and were integral to the nation’s industrialization.

Detailed explanation-3: -Every year, railroads save consumers billions of dollars while reducing energy consumption and pollution, lowering greenhouse gas emissions, cutting highway gridlock and reducing the high costs to taxpayers of highway construction and maintenance. More jobs and a stronger economy.

Detailed explanation-4: -Railroads allowed for increasing production in counties that were otherwise underutilizing inputs, or where the value marginal product of inputs (be they materials, capital, or labor) was greater than their marginal cost.