Talk:Erie Railroad

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[edit] Erie's "colorful" alias

Erie Railroad in the years after the Civil War. The Railroad became known as "the Scarlet Woman of Wall Street' because it was a plaything of men like Corneilus Vanderbilt, Daniel Drew, Jay Gould, and "Jubillee Jim Fisk who engaged in an orgy of rivalrous inside trading and bought and sold judges, city councilmen and Albany legislators like they were so many pigs in a poke.

(above was unsigned by User:Wk muriithi)

Ooh, neat. Do you have a reference for that? slambo 20:47, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, it was from this washingtonpost article. They force login which has made the source abit worthless, but i can past the whole article if you can't access it. Try bugmenot first. [1] gathima 00:17, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)