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

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

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

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

The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California

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

Many of the railroad evils were inherent in the situation; they were explained by the fact that both managers and public were dealing with a new agency whose laws they did not completely understand