railroad baron
Track empire builder
A railroad baron is a wealthy industrialist who built or controlled major railroad companies, especially in 19th-century America.
The term evokes both the immense fortunes these men amassed and the ruthless business practices they employed: Vanderbilt and other railroad barons shaped the American economy.
Baron suggests quasi-aristocratic power over territory and workers.
- tycoonDominant industrial leader
- magnateWealthy business leader
- VanderbiltAmerican industrial dynasty
- locomotiveRailway pulling machine
- iron horseSlang for steam engine
railway · gilded · fortune · monopoly · stock manipulation · steel · tracks · empire · wealth · robber · industrialist · Carnegie · Rockefeller · mansion · private car · stocks · corruption · transcontinental
- business mogulstycoon, mogul, magnate, billionaire, titan
- barons
- capitalistscapitalist, investor, financier, tycoon, mogul
- Gilded AgeGilded Age, robber barons, Carnegie, Rockefeller, Morgan
- Railroad PioneersGeorge Stephenson, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Fowler, Drummond, Webb
- tycoonsoil tycoon, tycoons, John Rockefeller, magnates, moguls
railroad baronbrakeman
Rail worker controlling deceleration
switchman · coolie · gandy dancer · track worker · wage slave
railroad baronphilanthropist
Donor to charitable causes
social reformer · muckraker · labor advocate · Robin Hood · socialist
railroad baronshopkeeper
Small store manager
corner store owner · peddler · street vendor · subsistence farmer · sole proprietor
railroad, baron, rail, road, rails, roads, railed, railing, railings