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The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad. One transformed millions of acres of uncultivated land into fertile farms, while the other furnished the transportation which carried the crops to distant markets.

John Moody's Popular Quotes

With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history.

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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 …

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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…

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

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

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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…

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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…

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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 …

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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…

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