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00:00Mississippi has the world's shortest railroad.

00:03It runs only about two miles.

00:05Can you imagine?

00:07There are many theories about why it was built so short.

00:10Some say it was built to haul cotton.

00:12That makes sense because Mississippi was one of the largest producers of cotton in the

00:15United States, second only to Texas.

00:18And back in the day when railroads were being built across the country, they were primarily

00:23used to transport agricultural products to market.

00:27In fact, the first segment of this railroad was completed in 1831 and it ran from a place

00:33called Chunky to the Alabama State Line.

00:37It was originally built by the Alabama and Tennessee River Railroad Company.

00:41Their goal was to connect the cotton fields of Mississippi to the Port of Mobile, which

00:45was a major shipping port at the time.

00:48The problem was that the railroad ended at the Alabama State Line, about two miles from

00:54the nearest point in Mississippi.

00:56So they built a two-mile railroad in Mississippi to connect the two.

01:00Now the entire railroad is owned by Canadian Pacific, and it runs freight trains, mostly

01:05hauling grain and soybeans, but the original purpose of the railroad was to transport cotton.

01:11If you want to see the world's longest railroad, you'll have to travel all the way to Australia.

01:16It's almost 2,000 miles long.

01:20If you enjoyed this video, stay tuned for more railroad facts every day.

01:24See you later.

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