Farmers, Merchants, Manufacturers, And The Traveling Public

Farmers, Merchants, Manufacturers, And The Traveling Public Have All Had Their Troubles With The Transportation Lines, And The Difficulties To Which These Struggles Have Given Rise Have Produced That Problem Which Is Even Now Apparently Far From Solution.

The Railroad Originally Was As Completely Dissociated From Steam Propulsion As Was The Ship

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.

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

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