The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress

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.

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

The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship

While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points

Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.

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

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

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

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

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.

Your attitude in your storm determines how long you are in it

Vanity, thy name is vampire.

With the other fellow actors who have gone astray, I think it's sad that society wants to label the business as doing this to people. It's really not true.

The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.

I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.

It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.

...a young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.

Help, love, forgive, and create beauty.

Every man makes his own summer. The season has no character of its own, unless one is a farmer with a professional concern for the weather.

There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman.