Railroad Quotes
The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines from one city to another, almost as fast as birds can fly, 15 or 20 miles an hour…. A carriage will start from Washington in the morning, the passengers will breakfast at Baltimore, dine at Philadelphia, and sup in New York the same day…. Engines will drive boats 10 or 12 miles an hour, and there will be hundreds of steamers running on the Mississippi, as predicted years ago. — Oliver Evans, 1800.
The same year Evans made this statement, he created the earliest successful non-condensing high pressure stationary steam-engine. Four years later, in 1804, he built the first steam-powered boat.
A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand. — Mark Twain
RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off. For this purpose the railroad is held in highest favor by the optimist, for it permits him to make the transit with great expedition. — Ambrose Bierce
Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station. — Ada Louise Huxtable
A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately. — Eleanor Robson Belmont (1879-1979)
The introduction of so powerful an agent as steam to a carriage on wheels will make a great change in the situation of man. — Thomas Jefferson, 1802
If God had meant for us to fly, he wouldn’t have given us the railways. — Unknown
Rail travel at high speeds is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia. – Dionysius Lardner (1842 – 1914) US journalist, short-story writer
I can see nothing to hinder a steam carriage moving on its ways with a velocity of 100 miles an hour. — Colonel John Stevens, 1812
Railroad iron is a magician’s rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water. — Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
Only fools want to travel all the time. Sensible men want to arrive. — Metternick
One stretch of track was so crroked we met ourselves coming back. – Unknown
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