railroad tycoon
Train empire builder
A railroad tycoon is a person who amassed great wealth and power through ownership or control of railroad companies, especially during the 19th-century expansion of rail networks in America.
The term evokes figures like Cornelius Vanderbilt and Jay Gould, and carries connotations of both entrepreneurial vision and ruthless business practices: He fancied himself a railroad tycoon, buying up small lines across the Midwest.
- magnateWealthy business leader
- robber baronUnscrupulous wealthy industrialist
- baronLow-ranking peer
- VanderbiltAmerican industrial dynasty
- CarnegieGilded Age industrialist
Cornelius Vanderbilt · monopoly · stock manipulation · hostile takeover · empire · fortune · railway · locomotive · golden spike · steel · gilded · robber · industrialist · mogul · wealth · tracks · freight · stocks
- Business TycoonsAndrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford, J.P. Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt
- tycoonsJohn Rockefeller, magnates, moguls, industrialists, titans
- Old Westcowboy, cowboys, cowgirl, sheriff, sheriffs
- railroadstrains, train, tracks, track, locomotive
- historic railwayssteam locomotive, steam train, steam engine, heritage railway, railway museum
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Person in extreme poverty
working poor · hobo · vagrant · factory hand · locomotive engineer
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