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The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.
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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.
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With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history.
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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.
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