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" What we want ," Hill is quoted as saying, " is the best possible line, shortest distance, lowest grades, and least curvature we can build.
" Hill got what he wanted, and in January 1893 his Great Northern Railway, running from St. Paul, Minnesota to Seattle, Washington — a distance of more than — was completed.
The Great Northern was the first transcontinental built without public money and just a few land grants and was one of the few transcontinental railroads not to go bankrupt.
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