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

When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period

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.

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

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

Farmers, merchants, manufacturers, and the traveling public have all had their troubles with the transportation lines, and the difficulties to which these struggles have given rise have produced that problem which is even now apparently far from solution.