George Francis Train – City of Smoke https://www.cityofsmoke.com New York in History and Anecdote Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:58:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 The Man Who Was Phileas Fogg https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/348 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 04:36:11 +0000 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=348 He went four times around the world and inspired Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days. He devised the financing scheme for the transcontinental railroad, lobbied Congress to enact it, and made a fortune from it. And at the end, nearly penniless and living in a Greenwich Village single]]>