The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship
John MoodyFarmers, merchants, manufacturers, and the traveling public have all had their troubles with the transportation lines, and the difficulties to which these struggles have given rise have produced that problem which is even now apparently far from solution.
John MoodyGreat men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.
John MoodyThe United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad. One transformed millions of acres of uncultivated land into fertile farms, while the other furnished the transportation which carried the crops to distant markets.
John Moody