TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gallamore,Robert E.
AU  - Meyer,John Robert
TI  - American railroads: decline and renaissance in the twentieth century 
SN  - 9780674725645
AV  - HE2751 .G337 2014
U1  - 385.0973/0904 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Railroads
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Railroads and state
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-496) and index; 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
ER  -