Erie Railroad
4 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 1, 2024 by David Senra · said 20 times in 3 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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Feb 1, 2024
Jay Gould bypassed Cornelius Vanderbilt's injunction by using an executive committee
“Jay noticed that Barnard's injunction, injunction, that's the judge that Vanderbilt paid off against new share issuance enjoying the Erie board and only the board. What if another entity say Erie's executive committee issued the stock instead of the board? Jay…”
Feb 1, 2024
The Erie Railroad board took $7 million from Cornelius Vanderbilt
“Vanderbilt believed that the share count was fixed, so he kept buying. And Vanderbilt didn't know that the stocks he's buying were issued by his enemies, right, the other people on the board, and so that money, they wind up taking him for like seven million do…”
Nov 17, 2025
Nov 17, 2025
Standard Oil targeted Erie Railroad for rebates because it needed traffic
“So when they think about who to target for the largest possible rebates, they concentrate on the Erie railroad. Why? Because it was one of the smaller railroads at the time and therefore more hungry for traffic. This deal at Rockefeller is going to work out wi…”