>>63946317
Completely right. Modern people spoiled by car don't realize how much horse cart sucks. How land logistics was inexistent prior to railroad.
Random economic Roman fact: moving grain 200km by donkey/ox carts Romans used increased it's price by 200%. If there is no ship we aren't going. This why Roman empire was thin line smeared over walls of the Mediterranean Sea, it's essentially line of naval transportation costs.
Railroads rewrote economic geography allowed to connect economically lands that before were "on the another planet".