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The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad.
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... →
While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points.
The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into... →
The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of... →
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... →
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... →
Farmers, merchants, manufacturers, and the traveling public have all had their troubles with the transportation lines, and the difficulties to which... →
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... →
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... →
Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.
Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general... →
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... →
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