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

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

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

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.

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

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

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