Steam Quote by John Moody

“Steamboats by this time were becoming a familiar presence on the rivers and coastal waters of America, but not until 1838 did steam-powered ships…

— David McCullough

My steamboat voyage to Albany and back, has turned out rather more favorable than I had calculated. The distance from New York to Albany…

— Robert Fulton

“the railroad and the steamship affected not only industry and commerce, but also the lives of millions of ordinary people.”

— Thomas Sowell

We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.

— Henry David Thoreau

“The boat—no, it was a ship, as one of the crew had explained, since it had a solid superstructure and was stabilized by ballast,”

— Jack L. Chalker

Mode of providing steam power to locomotives.

— John Ericsson

One of my earliest memories of something that caught my attention was of a steam locomotive. I guess mainly because they have so many…

— Jim Peebles

“Being constantly active made time fly, and so it didn’t take long before the day of departure came. It was January 4, 1953, and…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One

Some people are born to trains, and some have trains thrust upon them. Fortunately, I can be included in this latter category.

— Michael Portillo

A public, unified and integrated railway - hardly controversial.

— Caroline Lucas

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

Train wreck, extremely fast train, but usually ends up derailed somehow,

— Clint Bowyer