Incredible black-and-white pictures capture how railroads and steamboats helped forge its future..

UK Daily Mail ^ | July 19, 2012 | Staff

[C19fan]

They are images of a nation in motion - of a country building its future with expanding railroads and industrial opportunities. These glorious black-and-white photographs, which have been released by the Library of Congress, reveal America reveling in its new-found productivity, at a time when steam engines and steamboats were forging the nation ahead. The images, taken between 1870 and 1920, capture the determination with which America tackled the new century - and how the country also began enjoying the fruits of the 19th century's industrial labour, in what was termed the Gilded Age.

[US Navy Vet]

I grew up about 1.5 Mile from that Rail Road High Bridge(it’s still there, commonly known by the Locals(Boone County, IA) as the “Kate Shelley High Bridge”)). I walked across it when I was around 10 or so.

[publius911]

Great pictures at the link.

You were lucky.
I gave up trying to get in afer 15 minutes.
Maybe in a few days.

[SunkenCiv]

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[editor-surveyor]

That Baldwin locomotive had the horse power to pull 100 loaded cars at 120 MPH.