American Experience: Scouting the Route
Piedmont, Wyoming
There are ruins of dozens of little towns all along the original line. Steam engines needed water constantly, so every twenty miles the railroads stopped and planted a water-tower and a telegraph station and more or less called it a town. Some grew into towns, some didn't.
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