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The American Civil War developed at a time of rapid technological development. The war could never have been fought as it was without the use of the steam engine to move transportation on both land and water.

Railroads had been developing since 1830. Most of them started as links from an inland resource area to a seacoast city and port.

Railroads in the Union
Northern Central Railroad
Pennsylvania Central Railroad
Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad

The Border Railroad
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

Railroads in the Confederacy
Alexandria, Loudon & Hampshire Railroad
East Tennessee & Virginia Railroad
Manassas Gap Railroad
Norfolk & Petersburg Railroad
Orange & Alexandria Railroad
Richmond & Danville Railroad
Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad
Richmond & Petersburg Railroad
Virginia Central Railroad
Winchester & Potomac Railroad
York River Railroad