Railroad System, United States, 1861

Description:: This line shapefile represents the railroad network of the United States in 1861. This layer is part of the Railroads and the Making of Modern America project.

This project seeks to document and represent the rapid and far-reaching social effects of railroads and to explore the transformation of the United States to modern ideas, institutions, and practices in the nineteenth century.

This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.
Resource Link:: https://purl.stanford.edu/nh989wx0112
Identifier:: https://purl.stanford.edu/nh989wx0112
Language:: eng
Creator:: Thomas, William G., 1964-
Publisher:: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
Provider:: Stanford
Resource Class:: Datasets
Resource Type:: Line data
Subject:: Railroads and Transportation
Theme:: Transportation
Temporal Coverage:: 1861
Date Issued:: 2006
Spatial Coverage:: United States
Rights:: This dataset is freely available for academic use and other non-commercial use. Redistribution, or commercial use is not allowed without prior permission. You are free to create maps and use the data in other ways for publication in academic journals, books, reports, etc.
Access Rights:: Public
Format:: Shapefile
Georeferenced:: false

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