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"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, "The Devil's Dictionary" (1911).
"A TEN-YEAR-OLD lad in Indianapolis who was arrested for picking up coal along the side of railroad tracks is now in jail. If the boy had known enough to steal the whole railroad he would be heralded as a Napoleon of finance." – Chicago News, reported in Locomotive Engineers Journal: Volume 33 (1899).
"Every person of any experience in Courts of justice, knows that a scintilla of evidence…
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