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

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

Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business

The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific.

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

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.