top of page
"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."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Car quotes

"I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving."
Car,

"I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive."

"My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car."

"Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments."
Car,
Explore more quotes by John Moody

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history."

"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."

"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."

"As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies through the mountains."

"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."
bottom of page