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A full generation has passed since a New York Central emblem dashed
across the countryside on a railroad car, but few could ever forget
"the greatest railroad in the world." The New York Central System
grew from an amalgamation of smaller lines stretching from Albany
to Buffalo in the 1830s. Twenty years later, the lines were
gathered into a single company. Its phenomenal success did not go
unnoticed by Cornelius "the Commodore" Vanderbilt. In his late
sixties, when most men retire, he methodically started acquiring
railroads in the New York City and Hudson River region. He then
acquired the New York Central and merged it with his Hudson River
Railroad. The Commodore and his son William, the foremost rail
barons of their age, forged ahead with one of the most dynamic
future-directed endeavors in the world-a railroad empire that
traversed 11 states and 2 Canadian provinces.
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