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Author Gallamore, Robert E., author.

Title American railroads : decline and renaissance in the twentieth century / Robert E. Gallamore and John R. Meyer.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 506 pages)
Bibliography 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.
Note Print version record.
Subject Railroads -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Railroads and state -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
TRANSPORTATION -- Railroads -- Pictorial.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy.
Railroads. (OCoLC)fst01088711
Railroads and state. (OCoLC)fst01089339
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Electronic books.
Added Author Meyer, John Robert, author.
Other Form: Print version: Gallamore, Robert E., author. American railroads 9780674725645 (DLC) 2013042025 (OCoLC)861478393
ISBN 9780674369368 (electronic bk.)
067436936X (electronic bk.)
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