American Railroads : : Decline and Renaissance in the Twentieth Century / / John R. Meyer, Robert E. Gallamore.
Once an icon of American industry, railroads fell into a long decline beginning around the turn of the twentieth century. Overburdened with regulation and often displaced by barge traffic on government-maintained waterways, trucking on interstate highways, and jet aviation, railroads measured their...
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Edition: | Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (523 p.) :; 15 halftones, 14 line illustrations, 14 maps |
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