John Moody
John Moody
california people acquisition
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.
california discovery gold
The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California
car three united-states
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
two lines may
While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points
ships railroads steam
The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship
struggle lines problem
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.
ohio baltimore reorganization
With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history.
land railroads acres
The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad. One transformed millions of acres of uncultivated land into fertile farms, while the other furnished the transportation which carried the crops to distant markets.
horse car sailing
Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.
running fall firsts
Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business
progress records railroads
The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress
rivers east 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.
discovery gold railroads
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.
law agency evil
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