Railroads of the Civil War
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Easton Peachblossom YMCA 202 Peachblossom Road, Easton, Maryland
Bernard Kempinski
Bernard Kempinski is a retired defense analyst with over 35 years’ experience in weapons system evaluation and analysis. He has been researching and building models of civil war railroads for the past 20 years.
How railroads were built, operated, and ultimately, contributed to the start and prosecution of the American Civil War.
In the two decades before the start of the Civil War, the railroads of the United States underwent a period of amazing growth and technological development. Nonetheless, railroads were still in their infancy at the start of the war. While the modern viewer would recognize the civil war era railroad and its primary components, many differences, some obvious and some subtle, exist between then and now.
In this course, we will learn how railroads were built and operated, as well as how they contributed to the start of the war, and affected its prosecution.
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