I’m studying geography and can’t quite grasp the correlation between railtracks and the creation of cities. I get that railtracks can transport natural resources, but I don’t see the connection.
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Railtracks do not just transport natural resources, they transport all resources. Before railroads and canals the only way to transport goods was by horse and carrige. This was quite a costly and slow way of transporting things. The railway was the “Amazon Prime” of its day. Cities with rail would grow a lot bigger as factories and other industry would use the railway to deliver goods and order goods from all over the continent. This was just not feasable in cities without railways.
Even today the railway is responsible of carrying a huge part of the worlds mail, including Amazon packages. Huge warehouses have rail spurrs to them allowing them to receive entire trains with packages. But most factories today will have a truck pick up or dropp off the goods, but the truck would often drive to the rail yard to have its trailer loaded onto a train or its container loaded onto the train for long distance transport. The exception to this is the US where, despite it being profitable for the rail companies, individual loads is not prioritized.
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