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Excerpt from Les Chemins de Fer aux Etats-Unis
Le premier chemin de fer a ete entrepris en Amerique en. 1827 vingt ans plus tard, les Etats Unis ne comptaient encore que 14 000 kilometres de lignes ferrees; aujourd'hui le reseau com prend 282 000 kilometres, soit un quart de plus qu'en Europe, pour une superficie territoriale plus petite du sixieme et pour une population cinq fois moindre; c'est le reseau le plus serre qui soit au monde. Depuis l'ouverture de la pre miere ligne transcontinentale, celebree solennel lement a Promontory Point le 10 mai 1869. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
