Here we profile 12 of the most famous railroad tycoons in the 1800s and early 1900s who helped shape the modern industry in ...

It appears that agents of Jay Gould have been working during the past few days to obtain the appointment of a committee of the Senate to investigate the affairs of the Erie Railway Company.

As the flag-decked railroad train chugged out of Piermont ... Drew was soon joined on the Erie board by Jay Gould and Jim Fisk, a slippery pair of Civil War profiteers and stock-market riggers.

Jay Gould and Jim Fisk. The two financiers had worked together in 1868, when they used stock fraud and bribery to keep Cornelius Vanderbilt from taking control of the Erie Railroad, which they owned.