As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies through the mountains.

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.

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

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

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

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