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

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

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

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

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

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