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

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

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

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.

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

Creative problem solving is not necessarily tantamount to cheating.

Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities.

I look at comic books, and I do very eclectic mood boards with ideas and images that have to do with a character or story point. It's a bit like spinning plates. You gradually just steal your ideas.

Our waiting is not nothing. It is something -- a very big something -- because people tend to be shaped by whatever it is they are waiting for.

I happen to believe that the preemption school is correct, that the risks of allowing Saddam Hussein to acquire his weapons will only grow with time.

It is unforgiveable to do what one doesn't love especially if one succeeds.

Dream the impossible dream.

For as long as love takes up the whole heart, what room is there for sin therein?

When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.

The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and its only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of neurology.