“A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.”
Mark Twain
“This is a municipal railroad that connects to BNSF and UP. We don't know if there are many railroads that provide this access.”
Jason Anderson
“(Chicago) Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders”
Carl Sandburg
“Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad”
“In the end we went to the railroad station, as he suddenly decided he would have to go. We were just in time to see the last lights of the train disappearing. Once again Hoffmann left the house too late, and so I couldn't even say good-by to him. Perhaps I am taking too dark a view, I hope I am, but he is not coming again for another two weeks.”
Eva Braun
“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
“While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points.”
