“The road must run save first and fast afterward.”

— Daniel McCallum

McCallum Cited in: Roger Pickenpaugh (1998) Rescue by Rail: Troop Transfer and the Civil War in the West, 1863. p. 17

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Canadian engineer and early organizational theorist 1815–1878

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