Yale students almost always access New York City via the Metro-North New Haven Line, a direct connection between the academic and urban campuses. But beyond […] ...

Seventeen people were killed and 159 others hurt when a full-speed train crashed into another nearly stopped on the tracks ...

Commissioned in 1893 by railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt II, The Breakers is a Renaissance-style "summer cottage" inspired by the palaces in northern Italy. Its opulence knows no bounds ...

Frederick Vanderbilt Field was news the day he was born, Apr. 15, 1905. He was a great-great grandson of Railroad Builder Cornelius Vanderbilt, marked by destiny and carefully drawn wills to be a ...

Anderson Cooper is one of the most famous faces in the world of journalism — and he has managed to create quite a name for himself. While he was born as a member of the influential Vanderbilt ...

Buell Hall is the only reminder of the lost Bloomingdale Asylum and the battle between real estate and mental health in ...

Symes (pronounced Sims), 64, a railroad man all his life ... still carries the swashbuckling stamp of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt, who acquired control of the line in 1867, did ...

Built in 1913, Grand Central is the dream of Cornelius Vanderbilt. Unlike once-glorious ... It all began with a long stretch of abandoned elevated railroad track. Built in the 1930s, the track ...

Cornelius Vanderbilt. The one made the permanent way possible on which food and fuel could be carried in vast quantities without friction or loss; and the other laid or consolidated the permanent ...