"Give me a moment I am preparing to drawback to screamLouder than a train overhead below a railroad bridge"
- John E. Wordslinger
"Through the dark night chasing the morning lightThat headlight streaming white through the night"
- Richard L. Ratliff
"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