Horses And Mules, And Even Sail Cars,

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.

With The Reorganization Of 1898 Finished, The Baltimore And Ohio Railroad Entered A New Period In Its 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

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.