J. Pierpoint Morgan
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt. He was the most powerful "railroad baron." He earned his fortune in steamship lines and then began to buy up railroad lines in New York State.
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by selling the coal for your heaters and for your cars back then.
Charles Crocker was considered a robber baron, as he amassed considerable wealth and power through the Central Pacific Railroad, often through unethical business practices such as exploiting workers and engaging in corruption. He was one of the "Big Four" railroad tycoons in the late 19th century who controlled much of the railroad industry in the United States.
A duke held usually more land from his feudal lord, and so was more powerful than a baron, in theory.
Julia Tuttle, a local citrus grower convinced Henry M. Flagler, the hotel baron and railroad tycoon to expand the Florida East Coast Railroad to Miami. He made it a railroad hub, dredged the harbor, began a recreational center, and promoted tourism.
The primary railroad barons in the US were James Hill, Jay and George Gould, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Edward Harriman, Collis P. Huntington, and others. Of these, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt probably was the most known and most influential. See American Rails.
Harriet Tubman is the most popular railroad conductor.
The Railroad, Lumber, and mining industry boomed because of the railroad industry
the Railroad industry
Though he was not the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad, he became known as one of Ohio's first and most active "conductors" on the Underground Railroad.