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

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

In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government

The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads.

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

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

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.