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

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

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

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

And of the fact that every vision of the past is a vision of the blind

What the theologian shrinks from, the poet grasps intuitively.

Don't get tied up in something merely religious in search of something that is is Christian

Fire taps something ancient and vital in each of us, something both snarling and reverential.

The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.

When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying the food with the dexterity of a croupier.

The editing of moving pictures is geared toward the single image. You'd have to edit things in new ways.

I know why the Jews and Muslims have nine hundred names for God; one small word is not enough for love.

It was really fun to bring that scene to life. I can't wait to see it at the premiere with the fans.

Is there no way out of the mind?