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George pullman
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Made the sleeping car
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George westinghouse
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Made air breaks
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Eli janney
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Made car couplers
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Gustavus swift
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Made refrigerated railroad cars
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Rail road barons
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Powerful buissness men who owned R.R companies
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Consolidation
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Combing companies
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4 industries that grew from R.R
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Iron, Coal , Lumber ,Steel
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Transcontinental railroad
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R.R that ran across the continent
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Pools
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Agreements between large R.R companies
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Rebates
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Discounts
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Effects of consolidation
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Bigger and more efficient R.R companies. Took out smalle companies and controled industries
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Advantage og large R.R companies
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More efficent
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Disadvantage of large R.R companies
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Took out smaller companies
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Standard Gauge
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Distance between the rails used by all american R.R
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Railroad network
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R.R connecting
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