By that time, railroads were proving a better method of long-distance transportation, and the Baltimore and Ohio<span> Railroad was being built west from Baltimore to</span>Cumberland<span>, mostly along the </span>Potomac River<span>, and then by a more direct route than the National Road across the Allegheny Plateau of </span>West Virginia<span>
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