Today I played Ticket To Ride a game about building railroad tracks in Europe and in America. You build them by getting cards that are different colors and if you get like 4 of the same color as the track you are trying to build then you can put it down it is worth seven points.
Tracks were originally made for horses to pull carts faster where the ground was bumpy.
Later steam engines were invented that made the train move faster.
Back then it took them six months to travel across the U.S.A. but after they built the transcontinental railroad it only took them six days!
The railroad's usually carried coal, steel and other material that are used for making things.
the people that built the railroads were super super super rich. Some of them used their money to help the poor and also to build schools and universities.
Seattle to New York is my favorite route to build.
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