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... was parked outside the station. Inside, he watched through the window as the steam locomotive rolled in, pistons pumping, steam venting in short, controlled bursts.
In the past decade, Napoleon II had focused on transportation. Particularly, rails.
France had learned the hard way what fragmented systems did to empires. Different gauges. Different couplings. Different standards. Every transfer slowed movement. Every incompatibility became friction.
So he chose one gauge a ...
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