113 ordspråk av John Moody
John Moody
 It popped out of the ground because of the water pressure. |
| It was a simple matter to find fault with the railroad; it has always been its fate to arouse the opposition of the farmers. |
| It's so easy to hide behind a letter, ... Teachers are busy, and we fully understand that. But this is a profession, and it's a profession that's built on connecting with your parents. |
| 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. |
| On July 18, 1858, the first through train passed over the entire line from Philadelphia via Mount Joy to Pittsburgh without transfer of passengers. At the same time the first smoking car ever attached to a passenger train was used, and sleeping cars also soon began to appear. |
| One of the primary objects of Pennsylvania Railroad policy has been to keep pace with the growth of the country. |
| 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. |
| Perhaps more than any other one person, Cassatt foresaw the approach of the day when New York City as a commercial center would outstrip both in density of population and in amount of wealth all the other cities of the world. |
| Practically no railroad, even as late as the sixties, was wider than another. They were all single-tracked lines. |
| Railroads had been operating for many years in this country before it dawned upon the farmers that this great improvement, which many had hailed as his greatest friend, might be his greatest enemy. |
| Since the through line from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh was opened, not a single year has passed without the payment of a dividend--a sixty-year record which can be duplicated by no other American railroad system. |
| The builders of the Santa Fe lines in the early days no doubt planned ultimately to penetrate to the Pacific coast, knowing that the real opportunity for the road lay in that direction. |
| 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 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 development of railroad properties under the Vanderbilt influence was not confined to the territory east of Chicago and the Mississippi Valley. |
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