Great Men Are Usually The Products Of

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.

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

The History Of The Erie Railroad Ever Since 1901 Has Been A Record Of Progress

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.

Consequently Many Large Railroad Systems Of Heavy Capitalization Bid Fair To Run Into Difficulties On The First Serious Falling Off In General Business