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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay.

So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something completely different going on. And in the middle they meet, or not, depending.

Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even when they were physically mere extensions of one another, were separately owned and separately managed.

If we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they've done on the Shanghai line in China, and if we had a straight path from L.A. to San Francisco, as well as the milk run, at least that would be progress.

To connect with the great river we all need a path, but when you get down there there's only one river.

You can say your lines a million different ways and play your character a million different ways and still hit the common, agreed-upon finish line.

Railroads are the primary economic beneficiaries. It's a difficult project for the public sector.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.