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John Moody

"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."

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"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."

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Amber Hurdle

"I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here."

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Amber Hurdle

"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."

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Amber Hurdle

"Railroads are the primary economic beneficiaries. It's a difficult project for the public sector."

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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."

Car

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John Moody
"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."

History

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John Moody
"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."

Transportation

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John Moody
"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."

Development

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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."

Attention

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John Moody
"Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business."

Business

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John Moody
"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."

Act

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John Moody
"The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress."

History

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John Moody
"When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period."

History

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John Moody
"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."

Government

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