All John Moody Quotes
- 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… Area
- 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… Developed
- 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. Big
- Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business. Bid
- 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… All
- Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive. Cars
- 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… Assisted
- In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the… Appearance
- 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… Agency
- 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… Acquisition
- 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… Brought
- 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… California
- 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… Baltimore
- The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress. Been
- 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… Addition
- The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship. Completely
- The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad. Agricultural
- 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… Baltimore
- While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points. Another Line
- With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history. Baltimore
- 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… All
- 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… Absolute