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 | | Surveying, mapping, and construction started on the Baltimore and Ohio in 1830, and fourteen miles of track were opened before the year ended. |
 | | Soon joining the B and O as operating lines were the Mohawk and Hudson, opened in September 1830, the Saratoga, opened in July 1832, and the South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company, whose 136 miles of track, completed to Hamburg, constituted, in 1833, the longest steam railroad in the world. |
 | | Although Congress failed to sanction his plan, Whitney made the Pacific railroad one of the great public issues of the day. |
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