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John Moody Quotes

American - Businessman | 1868 - 1958

Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.

Progress Sail More Even Horses Made

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.

Government War Land Decade Railway

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.

Situation New Railroad Understand

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.

Future People Possibilities Wealth

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.

History Control Financial Interesting

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

History Progress Railroad Been Ever

The nation did not begin to realize the extraordinary possibilities of the vast Western territory until its attention was thus suddenly and definitely concentrated on the Pacific by the annual addition of over fifty million dollars to the circulating medium.

Possibilities Attention Realize Begin

The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific.

Gold Congress Railroad Survey Act

The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship.

Ship Railroad Steam Originally

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.

River United Even East Mississippi

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