While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points

The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship

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

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

The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property

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