1. Compare and contrast rail travel before the Civil War with rail travel after the Civil War? What inventions help bring about these changes?

Railroads made the difference of logistics during the Civil War for the north and after the Civil war only did the rail become a nationwide phenomenon.

Explanation:

The railroads of the country before Civil war were a very new phenomenon. They had been constructed largely in the industrial north and the west and the south had either sparse railroad or none at all.

In the Civil war the rail proved to be a deciding factor as the north was able to use it to their advantage while the South was not.

After the war the invention of the small gauge track changed the scenario as the rail could be laid down nationwide and the process could be centralized,

By the 1880s the whole country had a robust railroad system from north to South and East to west.

Compare & Contrast: The source of fuel in rail network before and immediate after the civil war was same that is steam functioned engine. Global transportation of foods and goods took place after the civil war.

Availability of suitable land for spreading railway tracks, capital investments are some of the inventions helped to bring changes.

Explanation:

In earlier period the connectivity of railway track was in very limited space between small distances. But later then the area extended and took the area under coverage of railway development. And at the same time it was used for shipping food, goods and weapons at the time of emergency.

The number of coaches enhances in the train after civil war. Technological revolution make the journeys more comfortable and useful one at the time of need. Water transportation also developed in large scale then.