Your packages are stuck in 1869: Why America still doesn’t have a real coast-to-coast railroad

America’s first transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869, born of the Pacific Railway Act that President Abraham Lincoln signed into law seven years earlier. It was meant to knit the country together, coast to coast, on steel rails. So why, more than 150 years later, can’t a shipper move a single load from one ocean […]

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