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.

Great 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.

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.

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

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.

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

The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress