This created a single transportation conglomerate encompassing river shipping, stagecoach, and railroad ventures.

Brannan's railroad venture failed and was sold at a foreclosure sale in 1869.

The Seligmans tended to lose money on their railroad ventures.

"Mr. Boudreaux was still in the dining room, with his partners in the railroad venture."

He was shot and killed in Ripley's town square by his former partner in the railroad venture.

This threatened new railroad ventures as the court's decision effectively protected the Canal's rights to purchase land and excluding potentially viable rail charters from doing so.

Mellon had founded the T. Mellon and Sons Bank, and was invested in coal, steel, oil, glassmaking, and other railroad ventures.

She listed, among the faults in the great transcontinental railroad venture, "executive misbehavior, large-scale corruption, shoddy construction, brutal labor exploitation, financial inefficiency."

Breckinridge's other railroad ventures were less successful.

His critics faulted him for some of his railroad ventures, accused him of being a Doughface, and questioned his intellectual capacity for a high government position.