Grain and what other product were shipped to the manufacturing centers of the east by railroad

Federal Government contracted millions of acres of land for the development of transportation. The land was used for construction of major transcontinental railroads which paved way for the easy and quick transportation of goods from America to the eastern countries.

Central Pacific Railroad is the first cross continental railroad which connected two continents for enhancing trade relationships. Slow horse carriages were relied upon before the emergence of railroads. It was time consuming.  

Today freight train carries commercial goods to the continents without and delay or damage to the goods. Both grain and steers where transported to the eastern butchers from the west.

the industrial development of cities in the ruhr area in the nineteenth century is described. the research was based on english and german language sources. several factors that shaped growth and paths of the cities were categorized and analyzed. they are locations, resources, traditions, entrepreneurs, and technological developments. locations and resources were the most important among them; other factors may be regarded as consequences from locations and resources. among the cities, bochum, essen, gelsenkirchen, and dortmund had the richest resources and most favorable locations in the transportation network and grew to be the largest cities in the ruhr area near the end of the nineteenth century. riverside location was also a favorable factor for the development, as shown in the development of duisburg on the confluence of rhine and ruhr. resource distribution can explain the rise of textile industry, metallurgical industry, and coal and iron industries, and the northward progression of the mining industry. tradition was an important factor for cities such as krefeld, barmen, elberfeld, solingen, and remscheid, which experienced development based on their traditions through the nineteenth century. various entrepreneurs exerted influences within and beyond the local level over the ruhr area. technological development stimulated the northward progression of the mining industry and the deep connection between the coal and the iron industries.

spanish executed counts egmont and horne in brussels.