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.

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

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

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

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

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

The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad. One transformed millions of acres of uncultivated land into fertile farms, while the other furnished the transportation which carried the crops to distant markets.