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Instead of using traditional railroad couplers or magnets to attach cars, the cars use their motors to stay connected.

At its peak, the enslaved population’s market value exceeded the worth of all the other industrial capital in the country, which would include railroads and factories, estimates economist Thomas Piketty.

The Canadian railroad says 3Q revenue of C$4.2 billion was driven by an 11% increase in intermodal transport, which are containers that can be transferred between trains, trucks, and ships.

Compared with Brazil and Chile, infrastructure such as roads, railroads and ports are less extensive or well maintained.

She and her younger siblings regularly set out with their mother to the nearby railroad tracks, where they harvested leftover lumps of coal to fuel their pot-bellied stove — the apartment’s sole source of heat.