History Quote by John Moody

The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of…

— John Moody

When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the…

— John Moody

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

— John Moody

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

— John Moody

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

— 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…

— John Moody

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

— John Moody

“The trains roared in on iron rails, bringing people from places he had never seen, taking them away to places he had only heard…

— Victoria Wilcox

I came from a poor family. My father was from Glasgow, Scotland; my mother's brothers were brakemen on the railroad. We didn't have anything…

— Mickey Rooney

I once drove a pair of horses from New York to Vicksburg, and to this day I can almost map out that country as…

— Collis Potter Huntington

The Underground Railroad was a spy network for the North and that story has never been told.

— Misha Green

“-How long you been with the rail road now? -Twenty-seven years. Now, I'll tell you something about the railroad. What I done learned after…

— August Wilson