The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress.
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The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship.
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Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.
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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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With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history.
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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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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.
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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 United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car.
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As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies through the mountains.
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