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| reply to garagerock
Re: What will get posted in this thread
Actually, as an incentive to get the railroads to lay down track out west, the government GAVE the railroads every odd numbered section of land within 25 miles on each side of their track. Talk about a giveaway and corporate subsidy! This did open up the west and made it easier for people to move themselves and things West. Now, the railroads have since sold off a lot of their land holdings (making a HUGE bundle of cash) but more importantly THEY KEPT THE MINERAL RIGHTS. This is why (in Colorado and Wyoming at least) virtually every oil and gas well has a name like UPRR-Amoco #5, where UPRR stands for Union Pacific Railroad. |
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garagerock
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Louisville, KY
| reply to void_of_Ligh
They would say "you've got an option...Satellite! Get a T-1, you cheap bastard!" 
Seriously though-in the past, I'm sure people said the same things about:
1. city water
2. electricity
3. automobiles
4. health care
5. high tech jobs
6. telephones
and so on. hell, I'd venture a guess that the railroads started out that way. after a critical mass amount of time, these things (and more) all made their way out to just about every corner of the country. why is broadband so different? |
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