The cattle car reminds me of a story I read about the competitiveness of Jay Gould and Vanderbilt. Mr. Gould decided to play a prank on Mr. Vanderbilt and lowered the price of shipping cattle from Chicago to New York to $1.00 per head. Vanderbilt matched the price. Gould then lowered the price to $1.00 per car load. Again Vanderbilt matched the price. What Vanderbilt did not know was that Gould had bought all the cattle in futures trading and so Gould shipped all the cattle over Vanderbilt's NYC for $1.00 per carload.