John W Barriger Iii

Author : H. Roger Grant
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-14
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780253032911

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John W. Barriger III by H. Roger Grant Pdf

In John W. Barriger III: Railroad Legend, historian H. Roger Grant details the fascinating life and impact of a transportation tycoon and "doctor of sick railroads." After graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, John W. Barriger III (1899–1976) started his career on the Pennsylvania Railroad as a rodman, shop hand, and then assistant yardmaster. His enthusiasm, tenacity, and lifelong passion for the industry propelled him professionally, culminating in leadership roles at Monon Railroad, Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad, Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad and the Boston and Maine Railroad. His legendary capability to save railroad corporations in peril earned him the nickname "doctor of sick railroads," and his impact was also felt far from the train tracks, as he successfully guided New Deal relief efforts for the Railroad Division of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation during the Depression and served in the Office of Defense Transportation during World War II. Featuring numerous personal photographs and interviews, John W. Barriger III is an intimate account of a railroad magnate and his role in transforming the transportation industry.

Author : Charles Penrose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Libraries
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112231951

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The John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library by Charles Penrose Pdf

Description of the collection begun by John W. Barriger, railroad executive. The collection became the John W. Barriger National Railroad Library, at the St. Louis Mercantile Library, St. Louis, MO.

Author : United States. Congress. House
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2196 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:35112104228244

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Hearings by United States. Congress. House Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Special Subcommittee on Bankruptcy and Reorganization
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1348 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Bankruptcy
ISBN : MINN:31951D02092165F

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Railroad Reorganization by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Special Subcommittee on Bankruptcy and Reorganization Pdf

Committee Serial No. 11.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1052 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015022468121

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Hearings by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1382 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119565617

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Railroad Reorganization by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Bankruptcy and Reorganization
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1344 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LOC:00176563746

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Voluntary Adjustment of Railroad Obligations: pt. 1-2. Railroad reorganization. May 31, June 1-2, 5, 7, 12, 14, 16, 19, 21, 28, July 5, 7, 10, 12, 15, 1939; supplemental statements, letters, and exhibits by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Bankruptcy and Reorganization Pdf

Author : Gregory L. Schneider
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-05
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780700629626

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Rock Island Requiem by Gregory L. Schneider Pdf

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 : H. Roger Grant
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780253049896

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A Mighty Fine Road by H. Roger Grant Pdf

The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad's history is one of big booms and bigger busts. When it became the first railroad to reach and then cross the Mississippi River in 1856, it emerged as a leading American railroad company. But after aggressive expansion and a subsequent change in management, the company struggled and eventually declared bankruptcy in 1915. What followed was a cycle of resurrections and bankruptcies; a grueling, ten-year, ultimately unsuccessful battle to merge with the Union Pacific; and the Rock Island's final liquidation in 1981. But today, long after its glory days and eventual demise, the "Mighty Fine Road" has left behind a living legacy of major and feeder lines throughout the country. In his latest work, railroad historian H. Roger Grant offers an accessible, gorgeously illustrated, and comprehensive history of this iconic American railroad.

Author : Herbert H. Harwood
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003-02-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780253110602

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Invisible Giants by Herbert H. Harwood Pdf

A comprehensive biography of the rise of the famous railroad barons who developed Shaker Heights, Ohio. Invisible Giants is the Horatio Alger-esque tale of a pair of reclusive Cleveland brothers, Oris Paxton and Mantis James Van Sweringen, who rose from poverty to become two of the most powerful men in America. They controlled the country’s largest railroad system—a network of track reaching from the Atlantic to Salt Lake City and from Ontario to the Gulf of Mexico. On the eve of the Great Depression they were close to controlling the country’s first coast-to-coast rail system—a goal that still eludes us. They created the model upper-class suburb of Shaker Heights, Ohio, with its unique rapid transit access. They built Cleveland’s landmark Terminal Tower and its innovative “city within a city” complex. Indisputably, they created modern Cleveland. Yet beyond a small, closely knit circle, the bachelor Van Sweringen brothers were enigmas. Their actions were aggressive, creative, and bold, but their manner was modest, mild, and retiring. Dismissed by many as mere shoestring financial manipulators, they created enduring works, which remain strong today. The Van Sweringen story begins in early-twentieth-century Cleveland suburban real estate and reaches its zenith in the heady late 1920s, amid the turmoil of national transportation power politics and unprecedented empire-building. As the Great Depression destroyed many of their fellow financiers, the “Vans” survived through imaginative stubbornness—until tragedy ended their careers almost simultaneously. Invisible Giants is the first comprehensive biography of these two remarkable if mysterious men.

Author : United States. Temporary National Economic Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Corporations
ISBN : UIUC:30112040432780

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Verbatim Record of the Proceedings by United States. Temporary National Economic Committee Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1656 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Railroads
ISBN : STANFORD:36105125357199

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Railway Age by Anonim Pdf

Author : H. Roger Grant
Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781501747793

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"Follow the Flag" by H. Roger Grant Pdf

"Follow the Flag" offers the first authoritative history of the Wabash Railroad Company, a once vital interregional carrier. The corporate saga of the Wabash involved the efforts of strong-willed and creative leaders, but this book provides more than traditional business history. Noted transportation historian H. Roger Grant captures the human side of the Wabash, ranging from the medical doctors who created an effective hospital department to the worker-sponsored social events. And Grant has not ignored the impact the Wabash had on businesses and communities in the "Heart of America." Like most major American carriers, the Wabash grew out of an assortment of small firms, including the first railroad to operate in Illinois, the Northern Cross. Thanks in part to the genius of financier Jay Gould, by the early 1880s what was then known as the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway reached the principal gateways of Chicago, Des Moines, Detroit, Kansas City, and St. Louis. In the 1890s, the Wabash gained access to Buffalo and direct connections to Boston and New York City. One extension, spearheaded by Gould's eldest son, George, fizzled. In 1904 entry into Pittsburgh caused financial turmoil, ultimately throwing the Wabash into receivership. A subsequent reorganization allowed the Wabash to become an important carrier during the go-go years of the 1920s and permitted the company to take control of a strategic "bridge" property, the Ann Arbor Railroad. The Great Depression forced the company into another receivership, but an effective reorganization during the early days of World War II gave rise to a generally robust road. Its famed Blue Bird streamliner, introduced in 1950 between Chicago and St. Louis, became a widely recognized symbol of the "New Wabash." When "merger madness" swept the railroad industry in the 1960s, the Wabash, along with the Nickel Plate Road, joined the prosperous Norfolk & Western Railway, a merger that worked well for all three carriers. Immortalized in the popular folk song "Wabash Cannonball," the midwestern railroad has left important legacies. Today, forty years after becoming a "fallen flag" carrier, key components of the former Wabash remain busy rail arteries and terminals, attesting to its historic value to American transportation.

Author : United States. Emergency Board (Carriers and Employees, Non-operating, 1943)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Railroads
ISBN : UOM:39015018446032

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Transcript of Proceedings of the National Railway Labor Panel Emergency Board by United States. Emergency Board (Carriers and Employees, Non-operating, 1943) Pdf

Author : United States. Emergency Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 942 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Labor disputes
ISBN : WISC:89058503848

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Transcript of Proceedings of the National Railway Labor Panel Emergency Board, Chicago, Illinois, 1943 by United States. Emergency Board Pdf