In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail ….

As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies throug….

The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the co….

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 in histor….

Farmers, merchants, manufacturers, and the traveling public have all had their troubles with the transportation lines, and the difficulties to which ….

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 new agen….

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 ….

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 States had bar….

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..

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 large….

The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress.

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 physically mere ex….

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

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 land from the….

The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the d….

Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general busine….

Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive..

The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into re….

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

People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future possibil….