Without the Chinese, it would have been impossible to complete the Western portion of this great National Highway. [The Transcontinental Railroad]
Every small town that I had ever been to had had a caboose.
For me, I've always been fascinated by tales of the Chinese railroad and the workers and the conditions of the workers who built the railroad.
The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship.
RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off. For this purpose the railroad is held in highest favor by the optimist, for it permits him to make the transit with great expedition.
I come from a line of railroad men. My great-grandfather was a surveyor for the Burlington Railroad.
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.
Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico.
I have always loved locomotives passionately. For me they are living creatures and I love them as others love women or horses.
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.
The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress.
When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker.
With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history.
Many Americans have a romanticized view of trains, rooted in a bygone era of elaborately adorned rail cars lit by flickering gas lamps and pulled by smoke-belching steam locomotives.
In the end, the railroads made America and nanotech will make the 21st century, and that is the end of the story. The beginning of the story and the end of the story.
Black men built the railroads, not blue eyes.
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.
I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.
My friend Anderson Cooper is the scion of one of America's great shipping and railroad families, the Vanderbilts.
