Detroit, 1850 Detroit is the manufacturing and shipping center of Michigan, with water connections north, south and east.

	Chicago Chicago is booming, with a new canal connecting to the Mississippi River, and 100 trains arriving daily from new farming regions to the west.
	Wisconsin and Ohio Oshkosh is the gateway to virgin timber in Wisconsin (left). On the Ohio River, the shipping hub of Cincinnati is now the country's sixth largest city (right, top and bottom).