Vanderbilt - The $100 Billion Empire That Vanished Documentary

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1869 was a year like no other when it came to the  railway industry in the United States. Thirty-five or so years earlier there had barely been a  railway line of any kind in America. The ‘Railway Mania’ had arrived from Britain in the 1840s and  when the American West opened up in the 1850s after the US had acquired territory all the way  to Calif... Read More