Question: who built the first railroad in the united states
Answer: 1795 - 96 & 1799 - 1804 or ' 05 -- In 1795 , Charles Bullfinch , the architect of Boston 's famed State House first employed a temporary funicular railway with specially designed dumper cars to decapitate ' the Tremont 's ' Beacon Hill summit and begin the decades long land reclamation projects which created most of the real estate in Boston 's lower elevations of today from broad mud flats , such as South Boston , Eastern parts of Dorchester , much of the shorelines of the entire Charles River basin on both the