..by the late nineteenth-century." (Byrne, 2006) Byrne relates that once the railroads were in operation the trains "...caused forests to fall and the earth to be ripped open." (2006) the Transcontinental railroads "...changed this society by stitching it together ever more tightly, by amplifying dramatically the number of commercial, social and communications exchanges that could take place over broad distances." (Byrne, 2006) When the Transcontinental Railroad was complete it stretched across the vast expanse of land between California and the Missouri River and a journey of between four and six months in length was cut to a mere six days. In fact, "With such an increase in the speed of travel, the states became more united and the world felt smaller. The telegraph lines that were strung up alongside the railroad added to this feeling by enabling nearly instantaneous communication across the country." (Nosotro, 2007)
Increases in commerce and communication between the states was one result of the Transcontinental Railroad as "fifty million dollars worth of cargo annually surged across the railroad during its first decade of use." (Nosotro, 2007) the
As demonstrated in this study, the Transcontinental Railroad most greatly affected the Western region of the United States and in fact is held to be the primary factor, which drove Western Expansion in the U.S.
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