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 I wasn't disappointed in our hitting,

 I'm willing to do whatever they need me to do. I can serve food, be a janitor, clean up. I am willing to do just about anything they need me to do.

 If we seek the real predecessor of the modern railroad track, we must go back three hundred years to the wooden rails on which were drawn the little cars used in English collieries to carry the coal from the mines to tidewater.

 In 1831, steam locomotives were tested, and one of them, the York, was found capable of conveying fifteen tons at the rate of fifteen miles an hour on level portions of the road.

 In 1862, when the charter was granted by the United States Government for the construction of a railroad from Omaha to the Pacific coast, the only States west of the Mississippi Valley in which any railroad construction of importance existed were Iowa and Missouri.

 In 1871 the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad, which had been opened as early as 1852, came under the Pennsylvania control.

 In 1906 the Pennsylvania began to dispose of the bulk of its holdings in competing properties, the most notable transactions being the sale of its entire interest in the Chesapeake and Ohio to independent interests and a substantial part of its Baltimore and Ohio holdings to the Union Pacific Railroad.

 In 1919 the entire property, including controlled lines, embraced more than 13,000 miles of main track, besides about 5000 miles of extra tracks; over 200,000 freight cars are in use on the system, and every year upwards of 200,000,000 tons of freight are transported.

 In fact there were railroads long before there were steam engines or locomotives.

 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.

 In the earlier days of railroading, and especially in the long period which came to an end with the death of Harriman, the typical railroad president was usually a man of great wealth who had secured his position by owning a large financial interest in the property.

 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.

 In this wise the Commodore not only added millions to his already growing fortune but also made himself a power in the financial world.

 It basically broke in half. It was a shock to see.

 It had opened up millions of acres to cultivation, given homesteads to millions of people, many of whom were immigrants from Europe, developed mineral lands of incalculable value, created several new great States, and made the American nation a unified whole.


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