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.

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

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.

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 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