Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business.
Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.
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 car.
The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of th...
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.