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GeorgeGaskill

April 18, 2014 01:31AM

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The Kansas City, Mexico & Orient originally intended to reach the southwestern coast of Mexico on the theory that they would have the shortest rail link to the Pacific and then, to the Orient. Unfortunately, that made the Orient (ocean) part of the route the longest.

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