Accessory Transit Company

Cornelius Vanderbilt's transit company that operated a cross-Nicaragua route linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans — before the Panama Canal — which was one of Vanderbilt's most profitable enterprises and which he fought to control against William Walker and his own business partners.

Represents Vanderbilt's global ambition — building infrastructure that connected continents — and the Nicaragua route was commercially vital during the California Gold Rush when getting from New York to California quickly was worth enormous sums.