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«The railroad is sprung from the application of two fundamental ideas - one the use of a mechanical means of developing speed, the other the use of a smooth running surface to diminish friction.»
Author: John Moody
«By this time Vanderbilt had achieved a great reputation as a man who created values, earned dividends, and invented wealth as if by magic; other railroad managers now began... ask him to do with them what he had done with the Harlem and the Hudson River. »
Author: John Moody
«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.»
Author: John Moody
«The Pennsylvania was the first American railroad to lay steel rails and the first to lay Bessemer rails; it was the first to put the steel fire-box under the locomotive boiler; it was the first to use the air brake and the block signal system; it was the first to use in its shops the overhead crane.»
Author: John Moody
«As a result of these new conditions, the States, cities, and towns were welded together, and population and prosperity increased rapidly in those inland sections which had formerly languished because they had no means of easy and rapid communication.»
Author: John Moody
«The development of railroad properties under the Vanderbilt influence was not confined to the territory east of Chicago and the Mississippi Valley.»
Author: John Moody
«In fact there were railroads long before there were steam engines or locomotives.»
Author: John Moody
«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.»
Author: John Moody
«When business revived in the closing years of the nineteenth century, the history of American railroads began a new chapter.»
Author: John Moody
«It was a simple matter to find fault with the railroad; it has always been its fate to arouse the opposition of the farmers.»
Author: John Moody

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