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Originally Posted by hal53
actually the railways started most of the towns , as they built stations where the trains had to stop to reload with water etc. It's a moot point anyway, I was getting at the fact that trains carry dangerous cargo thru' populated areas vs pipelines
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With the shortage of lines to get product moved there is argueably a clean slate to build future infrastructure around populated areas and problem spots.
Back in the day when many of these rail roads were built I don't think they anticipated the stuff we would ship on them today.