Word: closingâ
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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Railroad men realized that Mr. James's hammer blows brought an end to an epoch that was slow in closing???the Building Period. Next year when trains run over Great Northern-Western Pacific's new 200-mi. link, no other important construction will be underway. Some 249.000 mi. of track serve the LJ. S. well, perhaps too well. Future changes will be in the construction of systems rather than lines ?construction through financial liaisons; links completed with the signing of checks and the endorsement of stock certificates rather than the pounding of spikes...