railroad magnates
Track empire builders
Railroad magnates were the powerful businessmen who built and controlled America's railroad empires in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—figures like Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, and E.H.
Harriman.
The term carries connotations of immense wealth, political influence, and often ruthless business practices.
The railroad magnates transformed the American landscape and economy.
- tycoonsPowerful business leaders
- captains of industryPowerful business magnates
- baronsTitled nobles, lowest rank
- VanderbiltAmerican industrial dynasty
- CarnegieGilded Age industrialist
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- tycoonsoil tycoon, tycoons, John Rockefeller, moguls, industrialists
railroad magnatesrailroad workers
Train and track employees
laborers · track workers · coal miners · factory workers · indentured servants
railroad magnatesunion leaders
Officials representing organized workers
muckrakers · Ida Tarbell · Mother Jones · social reformers · philanthropists
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