John Moody Quotes

• 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.

  John Moody

  Men, Leader, Railroads

  John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• 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.

  John Moody

  Relationship, Country, Expansion

  John Moody (1919). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• 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

  John Moody

  Car, Three, United States

  John Moody (1919). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• 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.

  John Moody

  Lakes, United States, Borders

  John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• 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

  John Moody

  War, Land, Government

  John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• 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

  John Moody

  Ohio, Rivers, Water

  John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• 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

  John Moody

  Agency, Law, Evil

  John Moody, Gerhard Richard Lomer, Charles William Jefferys (1919). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• 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.

  John Moody

  Country, Winning, Government

  John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• 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.

  John Moody

  Discovery, Gold, East

  John Moody (1919). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• 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.

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  Rivers, East, Railroads

  John Moody (1919). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• 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

  John Moody

  Ohio, Interesting, Baltimore

  John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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

  John Moody

  Progress, Records, Railroads

  John Moody, Gerhard Richard Lomer, Charles William Jefferys (1919). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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

  John Moody

  Running, Fall, Firsts

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• 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

  John Moody

  California, Discovery, Gold

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

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  Two, Competition, Lines

  John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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

  John Moody

  Ships, Railroads, Economy

  John Moody, Gerhard Richard Lomer, Charles William Jefferys (1919). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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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.

  John Moody

  Struggle, Lines, Problem

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

  John Moody

  Ohio, Baltimore, Reorganization

  John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad. One transformed millions of acres of uncultivated land into fertile farms, while the other furnished the transportation which carried the crops to distant markets.

  John Moody

  Land, Acres, Today

  John Moody (2013). “The Railroad Builders (Volume 38 Chronicles of America)”, CreateSpace

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

  John Moody

  Horse, Car, Sailing

  John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• 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.

  John Moody

  California, People, Development

  John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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