Posted 9/28/2023 08:28 (#10419566 - in reply to #10418530) Subject: RE: We used horses for thousands of years...
Agent Orange: Friendly fire that keeps on burning.
I don't think there were many railroads built between 1600 and 1700, which is the 17th century you allude to. There was, however; a massive spurt of RR building in the 19th century, a lot of which were subsidized by land grants from the feds. Anyways, carry on . . .