John Moody Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“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.”

“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 relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads.”

“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.”

“Farmers, merchants, manufacturers, and the traveling public have all had their troubles with the transportation lines, and the difficulties to which these struggles have given rise have produced that problem which is even now apparently far from solution.”

“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.”

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

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