Gilded Age railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt would be wealthier than Jeff Bezos if he were alive today. His grandson built ...

Derek Thompson: The driving of the golden spike at Promontory Point in 1869 marked the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad. The Gilded Age begins just after and extends into the early 1900s.

The Gilded Age was a time of extreme disorientation for ... One such form of technology driving the change was the railroad system. About 70,400 miles of rail tracks were laid down between 1880 ...

"We don't think of railroads as high-tech, but they were high-tech in those days." While the Gilded Age was marked by extravagance, O'Donnell noted that it was also characterized by feelings of ...