John Moody Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad.

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.