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 |
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| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (523 p.) :; 15 halftones, 14 line illustrations, 14 maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Railroad Companies and Abbreviations
- 1 The Enduring American Railroads
- 2 The Ills of Government Regulation of Rail Rates and Services
- 3 The Policy Dilemma of Competition and Consolidation
- 4 The Impact of Rival Freight Modes on Railroads
- 5 The Decline of Railway Passenger Service, 1900–1970
- 6 Merger s at Midcentury and the Penn Central Debacle
- 7 Two Railroad Reform and Revitalization Acts and the Northeast Rail Crisis in the 1970s
- 8 The Brief, Mainly Happy Life of Conrail, 1976–1999
- 9 The Making of the Staggers Rail Act, and Experience under Deregulation
- 10 How Railroads Got Their Final Sizes and Shapes
- 11 The Enduring Problem of Rail Passenger Service in the Amtrak Era
- 12 Advancing Technology for American Railroads
- 13 Decline and Renaissance of American Railroads in the Twentieth Century – Pulling into the Terminal
- Afterword: Future Policies for US Railroads
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index