John Moody Quotes

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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…
• 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…
• 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.
• Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business.
• 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…
• Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.
• 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…
• In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress.
• The nation did not begin to realize the extraordinary possibilities of the vast Western territory until its attention was thus suddenly and definitely concentrated on…
• The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship.
• The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad.
• 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…
• While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points.
• With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history.

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