The great American railroads responded, immediately employing non-union workers to replace three quarters of the empty positions.

美国铁路为此迅速做出反应，立刻雇佣了无组织工人来填补四分之三的空缺。

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"Overall, rates have gone down for just about every commodity group," said Tom White of the Association of American Railroads.

“总体而言，针对几乎每个商品团体的运费均有所下降，”美国铁路协会的汤姆·怀特说。

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In addition, construction of the canal served as a training ground for many of the engineers who built other American canals and railroads in the ensuing decades.

同时还为美国培养了大批工程师，这些工程师在美国后来几十年的运河和铁路建设中起到了巨大的作用。

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An African American man named John Henry was the hero of former slaves and the people who built the railroads.

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The great American railroads were built by and large, for decades, by government subsidies, and a tremendous amount of corruption.

这几十年间,美国伟大铁路建起来了,这当然是是通过政府的支助,以及伴随着数不清的行贿受贿

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But railroads revolutionized an American sense of time, their ability to travel.

但是铁路改变了美国人的时间观念,他们有能力去旅行

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That's 42% of all nonintermodal carloadings on major railroads, according to the Association for American Railroads.

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After World War II, for example, American railroads employed about 1.5 million people.

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He notes that American railroads are already jammed with mile-long freight trains travelling between the Atlantic and the Pacific.

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