Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business

The 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.

With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history.

The States which form the northern border of the United States westward from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast include an area several times larger than France and could contain ten Englands and still have room to spare.

As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies through the mountains.

In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car

Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.