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Rail Road Towns For convenience of continuation of the Rail Road, as it pushes its way into the wilderness, some point is selected as the terminus for the line. This point becomes the Rail Road Depot. Here are collected the ties rails and material for the next eighty or hundred miles. Passenger and freight being carried only to this point, it becomes the place of departure for stages, and for Frighters with their huge wagon, "The prairie schooner." Houses go up as by magic. All insurance (?) business is done by these peripatetic merchants. On this point the grading contractors depend for the supplies for their working gangs yet in advance. To a visit to this "Town," the graders, tie cutters,