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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Commerce Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021057042
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LOC:00101496752
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015076083347
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Union catalogs
ISBN : UOM:39015082929715
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Author : Gregory L. Schneider
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-05
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780700629626
Celebrated in history and song, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company—the Rock Island Line—was a powerful Midwestern railroad that once traversed thirteen states with its fast freights and Rocket passenger trains but eventually succumbed to government regulation and a changing economy. Gregory Schneider chronicles the Rock Island’s painful decline and along the way reveals some of the key problems within the American railroad industry during the post–World War II era. Schneider takes readers back to a time when railroads still clung to a storied past to offer new insight into the devastating impact of economic policymaking during the 1960s and 1970s. Schneider recounts the largest railroad liquidation in American history—as well as one of the most successful reorganizations in American business—to depict the demise and ultimate collapse of Rock Island as part of a broader account of hard times in the railroad industry beginning in the 1970s. Schneider weaves a complex story of how business, politics, government bureaucracy, and individual greed helped to limit the economic possibilities of the railroad industry and catapult the Rock Island Railroad into oblivion. Weakened by a troubled economy, the Rock fell victim to inept management and labor union intransigence; but Schneider also reveals how government regulations and price controls prevented innovation, hindered capital acquisition, and favored other forms of transportation that lie beyond the scope of regulation. Railroads were even hurt by taxation of property and real estate while competitors were able to use government-subsidized highways and airports without having to pay taxes to fund them. Now that America has gone on to witness the collapse of such mammoth firms as Enron and Lehman Brothers, not to mention the bankruptcy and bailout of General Motors, the story of the Rock provides an instructive lesson in how a major American enterprise was allowed to fall victim to forces often beyond its control—while the bailout of the Penn Central, at the expense of smaller lines like Rock Island, helped initiate the era of “too big to fail.” For economic historians and railroad buffs alike, Rock Island Requiem is a well-researche
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045434458
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Traffic engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015013048304
Author : R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2530 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117254248
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1050 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Catalogs, Subject
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211444794
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1052 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015082932628
Author : R.R. Bowker Company
Publisher : New York : R.R. Bowker Company
Page : 1476 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063601368
Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110743684
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Railroads
ISBN : PSU:000053981820
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Railroad law
ISBN : LOC:0017121841A
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Railroads
ISBN : UCAL:$B643548
Pt. 1: Committee Serial No. 90-17. Considers S. 1175 and related bills, to change administrative procedure and requirements for discontinuance of passenger train service, allowing longer periods of investigative time, reassignment of burden of non-profitability proof to carriers, and making alternative transportation arrangement provisions rather than service continuance/discontinuance decisions