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

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.

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

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

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

The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property

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 Federal Government

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

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

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

I'm still one of the guys and I always will be.

And I think that that emphasis on keeping a family together, alike, I think it's important.

The world belongs to those who possess it, and is scorned by those to whom it should belong.

I'll perform all the way to the grave.

I'll be honest: I was a super-late bloomer, and I was kind of a prude.

There are two things worth living for, one is a good cigar, the other is a better one.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

Why does not the brain adapt to repeated exposure and become indifferent, instead of satisfied?

No man is above the law.

Everyone should be treated fairly no matter what they look like.