Benefits Quote by William Henry Vanderbilt

The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay.

— George Stephenson

Railroads are the primary economic beneficiaries. It's a difficult project for the public sector.

— John Gates

“If we stay at home and mind our business, who will want railroads?”

— Henry David Thoreau

We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness.

— Mike Rutherford

“So, I think that when we become civilized, great corporations will make provision for men who have given their lives to their service. I…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

Why should the railroad employees be parceled out among a score of different organizations? They are all employed in the same service. Their interests…

— Eugene V. Debs

“To know the everlasting majority attitude toward new uses of productive energy, remember that your great-grandfather did not believe that railroads were possible. At…

— Rose Wilder Lane

One glance proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that these unions (railroad craft unions) are exceedingly useful to the corporations; and to the…

— Eugene V. Debs

“Wall Street billionaires are predicting that Roosevelt-style railroad rate regulation will sooner or later bring about financial catastrophe. [ca. 1906]”

— Edmund Morris

We will be in the railroad business, first and foremost.

— Philip Anschutz

We continue to subsidize highways and aviation, but when it comes to our passenger rail system, we refuse to provide the money Amtrak needs…

— Corrine Brown

Why should I tell you where I am going to get funds from? If I were to do that then all the vested interests…

— Lalu Prasad Yadav