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Granville T. Woods
By Sharon Fabian |
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1 Americans were traveling by rail. In the second half of the 1800's railroad transportation was booming. Both the North and the South had used railroads to transport troops in the Civil War. In 1869, the long awaited Transcontinental Railroad was finally completed when they drove in the final spike at Promontory Point, Utah. On the East Coast, railway travel was becoming popular, and lines were extended to carry more and more passengers. By the late 1800's, there were about 200,000 miles of track in the United States.