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The U.S. railroads, for instance, would not have been built without British capital.
The changes now going on have their analog in the last century, when technological innovations of the day like railroads, telegraph, and steam power—developed for purposes far afield of retail, apparel, or textiles—helped transform the mass distri-bution of goods and information.
There were numbers of factories and other installations to which no access was possible, which were encapsulated in small triangles (or sometimes rectangles) formed by the nearest roads and railroads.
EPA has identified two types of small entities which could potentially be impacted by the rule: (1) small businesses involved in locomotive aftermarket parts production and locomotive remanufacturing and (2) small railroads.
Railroads preceded settlers into many parts of the United States, and every few miles a siding had to be built so that trains could pull off the track and wait for others to pass.