While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points.
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.
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.
The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad.
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.
