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«The Last Railroad Tycoon» by Shawn Tully, won the Travel / Transportation category for medium - sized publications.

American business and railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt established his namesake university in 1873.

An album of Midwest plants collected by the wife of a railroad tycoon.

Homer Bedloe returns to Hooterville with a retired railroad tycoon who's interested in buying the Cannonball.

Nineteenth - century Sicilian immigrant vineyard owners struggle to keep their land from the hands of a ruthless railroad tycoon in northern California.

But the script feels the need to cram in the obviously scheming railroad tycoon Latham Cole (Tom Wilkinson), corrupt cavalry officer Fuller (Barry Pepper), and a perfunctory love story between Dan's widow, Rebecca (Ruth Wilson) and John.

10:30 pm — TCM — Once Upon a Time in the West A disparate group of characters interact and intertwine on America's western frontier — a young widow seeking those who killed her family, the outlaw suspected (but innocent) of the murders, the ruthless leader of a gang in the employ of a railroad tycoon, and a harmonica - playing stranger.

But then, that's all in keeping with the surprisingly silly tone of the movie, which is built around a greedy railroad tycoon's dastardly plot to enrich himself — what Western would be complete without a greedy railroad tycoon, after all?

«Harmonica» and Cheyenne look out for the prostitute - turned - widow and discover the motive for Frank and his boss, crippled railroad tycoon Mr. Morton (Gabriele Ferzetti), to off the McBains in an effort to claim the family's property, secretly and soon to become extremely valuable.

Also onboard for the film are Tom Wilkinson as a (possibly evil) railroad tycoon and Ruth Wilson as the film's female lead.

But on their quest to take down Cavendish and his men, the pair uncovers a larger plot involving railroad tycoon Latham Cole (Tom Wilkinson) that could spell trouble for the native tribes.

Pitting the legendary Pancho Villa against «the Colonel,» a thrill - seeking Bostonian railroad tycoon whose fading fortune is tied up in a colossal ranch in Chihuahua, El Paso opens during a time of dramatic upheaval in Mexico - its government being squeezed on one end by Villa's revolutionaries and on the other by «filthy» American capitalists.

Conceived by railroad tycoon Henry Flagler, the resort opened in 1920 as the final stop on Flager's Overseas Railroad.

and Railroad Tycoon, co-founder of MicroProse and Firaxis Games — will be awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the upcoming Game Developers Conference (February 18 - 22).

Train set collectors and builders, trainspotters and people who used to play Railroad Tycoon all know what I'm talking about.

, Railroad Tycoon, and Civilization.

Examples: Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon Theme Hospital Transport Tycoon Industry Giant II RollerCoaster Tycoon Aerobiz Corporate Warfare Jurassic Park: Project Genesis

Players of many old classics (such as Transport Tycoon and Railroad Tycoon) are having a hard time finding anything that pleases them on the mobile simulation market.

Play the game will be on Windows and Linux, to fulfill the childhood dream and by own experience to check how the product differs from its competitor — games developers Railroad Tycoon.

We shouldn't have to tell you that Railroad Tycoon is one of the games that breathed new life blood into the strategy / simulation market and marked the beginning of an illustrious and mostly fantastic franchise, but we can if you haven't heard.

Kieron Gillen summed up this impulse well when he dismissed The Watchmen video game trailer with a two - line blog post at Rock, Paper Shotgun: «Honestly, nice try guys, but you may as well turn Anna Karenina into a Railroad Tycoon clone.»

Games Been making games of one sort or another since 1980, and proud to have been on the teams that made the original versions of Railroad Tycoon, Civilization, the Age of Empires series, and Castleville.

He has design and writing credits for Civilization, Age of Empires, Railroad Tycoon, and Covert Action.»

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The Reality: The entire Railroad Tycoon IP seems to be dormant, if not dead.

It, like Railroad Tycoon II and III (both of which were not developed by Meier), was extremely focused and had none of the scope of the original.

Having a Railroad Tycoon with the complexity of the original but 2011 graphics would be a danger to human life on Earth, from its sheer addictiveness.

Great Falls was founded in 1883 by Paris Gibson and railroad tycoon James J. Hill.

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The widows of the Vanderbilt tycoons who had built the New York Central Railroad sold their ponderous mansions on Fifth Avenue — urban châteaus that lined «Vanderbilt Alley» from 42nd Street to Central Park — to real estate speculators like Benjamin Winter and Frederick Brown.

From this framing device, we jump back to Colby, Texas circa 1869, where the railroad has finally come, with, according to tycoon Latham Cole (Tom Wilkinson), the promise of progress.

Railroad modern tycoon strategy game created by solely Jan Zelený in 7 years.

Transport Fever by Urban Games is a transportation focused tycoon simulator that tasks you with building bus stations, railroads, and airports in an attempt to increase the transit of people and goods.