This is a list of railway towns in the United States listed by state.
The United States has a high concentration of railway towns, communities that developed and/or were built around a railway system.
Railway towns are particularly abundant in the midwest and western states, and the railroad has been credited as a major force in the economic and geographic development of the country.
[1] Historians credit the railroad system for the country's vast development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as having helped facilitate a "unified" nation.
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