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.

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.

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

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

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

Farmers, merchants, manufacturers, and the traveling public have all had their troubles with the transportation lines, and the difficulties to which these struggles have given rise have produced that problem which is even now apparently far from solution.