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TIL of the Bayside Canadian Railway, a 200-foot-long railroad to nowhere in New Brunswick, Canada. Due to a loophole in the Jones Act, cargo between American ports is permitted to be shipped on foreign-built vessels if at some point it also uses a Canadian railroad.

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