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Railroad Quotes (page 3)

So time passed on. And the two skyscrapers decided to have a child. And they decided when their child came it should be a *free* child. "It must be a free child," they said to each other. "It must not be a child standing still all its life on a street corner. Yes, if we have a child she mist be free to run across the prairie, to the mountains, to the sea. Yes, it must be a free child."So time passed on. Their child came. It was a railroad train, the Golden Spike Limited, the fastest long... Carl Sandburg
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 extensions of one another, were separately owned and separately managed. John Moody
John Moody quote: "With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and..."
With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history. John Moody
John Moody quote: "While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line,..."
While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points. 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 United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period. 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
John Moody quote: "The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from..."
The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship. 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 '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific. John Moody
John Moody quote: "The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a..."
The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress. John Moody
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 agency whose laws they did not completely understand. John Moody
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 history. John Moody
Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business. John Moody
You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans. Walter Russell Mead
Ada Louise Huxtable quote: "Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more..."
Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station. Ada Louise Huxtable
Harold Evans quote: "For 50 years my father worked for the railroad."
For 50 years my father worked for the railroad. Harold Evans

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