The operating management, providing as it does for the care of near thirty thousand miles of railway, is far more important than that for construction in which there is comparatively little doing.
~ John Bloomfield Jervis
Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business.
~ John Moody
Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
~ John Burroughs