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original trainfag here...
Abraham Lincoln was an attorney for a railroad which built the first bridge over the Missouri river. He helped win the case for the bridge to remain. Later, president Lincoln placed his former boss into the VP role of the Transcontinental Railroad.
Vanderbilt got rich on Steamboats on the Hudson which he eventually sold in favor of all the rail lines in the northeast US which he bought up with 30 million earned from the steam ship industry.