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.
From John Moody
While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points.
The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad.
The States which form the northern border of the United States westward from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast include an area several times larger than France and could contain ten Englands and still have room to spare.
People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future possibilities were almost unlimited, so far as the development of natural resources and the genera production of wealth were concerned.
Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.
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 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 the Pacific railroads.
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.
Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business.
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