Why doesn’t America have a transcontinental railroad?

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Washington Examiner

In 1869, the first-ever American transcontinental railroad was completed at Promontory Summit, then in the Utah Territory. Passengers and cargo from the industrial cities of the Northeast could make the steam-powered one-week journey toward the West Coast, stretching the American frontier and settling the West. Nearly 160 years later, highway systems and airplanes have taken []