Sure do. Another victim of the eventual governmental creep, although thankfully long after his passing. Even made enough money to electrify part of his railroad under his tenure, mostly through the Cascade Tunnel area.
Do you think we could ever return to the Lochner Era or the Gilded Age? Men like Vanderbilt, Mellon, Rockefeller and Hill weren’t villains. They got rich because they satisfied a market need. Yet, our government schools teach a history that never was. People moved from farms to urban factories because their lives, working conditions and health improved. They weren’t forced. Can we break that myth and really return to a free market in America?