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American railroads : decline and renaissance in the twentieth century
- Title
- American railroads : decline and renaissance in the twentieth century / Robert E. Gallamore & John R. Meyer.
- Author
- Gallamore, Robert E.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
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- Additional Authors
- Meyer, John Robert
- Description
- xiii, 506 pages; 25 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The enduring American railroads -- The ills of government regulation of rail rates and services -- The policy dilemma of competition and consolidation -- The impact of rival freight modes on railroads -- The decline of railway passenger service, 1900/1970 -- Mergers at mid-century and the Penn Central debacle -- The RRR and RRRR Acts and Northeast rail reorganization -- The brief, mainly happy life of Conrail, 1976/1999 -- The Staggers Rail Act and railroad experience under deregulation -- How railroads got their final sizes and shapes -- The enduring problem of rail passenger service in the Amtrak era -- Advancing technology for enduring railroads -- Decline and renaissance of American railroads in the twentieth century; pulling into the terminal.
- ISBN
- 9780674725645
- 0674725646
- LCCN
- 2013042025
- 99959555225
- OCLC
- 2013042025
- 861478393
- SCSB-9397819
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries