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 ...

After graduating from Yale, Frederick worked at the New York Central Railroad with his father ... and fame were thanks to his grandfather Cornelius Vanderbilt. Cornelius was a self-made ...

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 ...

Do new divorcées throw their wedding rings off the Virginia Street Bridge in Reno? Former Nevada state archivist Guy Rocha ...

The apocryphal legend begins with railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt dining at an upscale resort in Saratoga Springs in 1853. When he sent his fried potatoes back to the kitchen for being too ...

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 ...