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.

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

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

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

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