"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"

"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"

"The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay"

"On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this went on for about thirty minutes"

"The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship"

"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"

"Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree"

"I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger"

"One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt"

"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad"

"While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points"