John Moody

"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."

"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."

"The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads."