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

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.

People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future possibilities were almost unlimited, so far as the development of natural resources and the genera production of wealth were concerned.

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

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

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

Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even when they were physically mere extensions of one another, were separately owned and separately managed.