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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. (John Moody)
The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads. View quote
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While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress. View quote
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Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business. (John Moody)
Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive. View quote
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With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history. View quote
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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. View quote
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The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship. View quote
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People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future possibilities were almost unlimited, so far as the development of natural resources and the genera production of wealth were concerned. View quote
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The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (John Moody)

John Moody

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Occupation: American Businessman
Born: May 2, 1868
Died: February 16, 1958
Quotes count: 21