Transport Tycoons: the Vanderbilt family

[kamnet]

An overview of the historic rise and fall of the Vanderbilt family business empires.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy0937MDGVY

[CTarana45]

As a native Central New Yorker, he never struck me as being one the Robber Baron Types!

Christopher Tarana

[kamnet]

As it turns out, he was the most robber-baronish of all the robber-barons combined.

[kamnet]

Cornelius Vanderbilt bought the Nickel Plate Road because it represented a threat to his own lines that would eventually become the New York Central Railroad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ntj6zQh-vVk