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082 0 0 _a385.0973/0904
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100 1 _aGallamore, Robert E.
245 1 0 _aAmerican railroads :
_bdecline and renaissance in the twentieth century /
_cRobert E. Gallamore & John R. Meyer.
264 1 _aCambridge, Massachusetts :
_bHarvard University Press,
_c2014.
300 _axiii, 506 pages ;
_c25 cm
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 437-496) and index.
505 0 _aThe 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.
650 0 _aRailroads
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aRailroads and state
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
700 1 _aMeyer, John Robert.
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949 _aHE2751 .G337 2014
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