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whereas European railways were mostly created to move large amounts of people between densely populated cities.
Not really. European railroads were built to move armies to the borders.
American railways were also built on a wider gauge (the distance between the rails),
Wrong. Everyone in Europe and N. America but the Russians use the same gauge. This article is wrong on a lot of facts.