 oil you know it was just up and coming you know the first oil derrick in america was was actually built not until 1859 just before the civil war began it was an up-and-coming thing but the real power was with the railroad magnets um uh people like um jay gould and accordingly vanderbilt and thomas durant you know these guys wanted a a um the transatlantic railway built um they didn't want to go through the south was nice and flat and very easy they wanted to