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Author : I. E. Quastler
Publisher : Degolyer Library
ISBN 13 : 9780976985815
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (858 download)
Download or read book Rock Island Line in Focus written by I. E. Quastler and published by Degolyer Library. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 886 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Rock Island Lines News Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Rhodes
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 1571318240
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)
Download or read book Rock Island Line written by David Rhodes and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An authentically great American novel” that follows a young man’s descent into darkness after a tragic loss, and his struggle to find renewal (Booklist, starred review). Raised in an idyllic Iowa town, young July Montgomery is rocked by the tragic death of his parents. Fleeing to Philadelphia, he fashions a ghostly existence in an underground train station. When a young woman appears to free him from his malaise, they return together to the Iowa heartland, where the novel soars to its heartrending climax. First published to enormous acclaim in 1975, Rock Island Line brings David Rhodes’s striking characterizations and unparalleled eye for the telling detail to this tale of paradise lost—and possibly regained. “Beautiful and haunting . . . I read the book when it first came out over thirty years ago and it has lived in both my heart and head ever since.” —Jonathan Carroll, author of Teaching the Dog to Read
Author : Gregory L. Schneider
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700629629
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Rock Island Requiem written by Gregory L. Schneider and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2020-02-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated in history and song, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company—the Rock Island Line—was a powerful Midwestern railroad that once traversed thirteen states with its fast freights and Rocket passenger trains but eventually succumbed to government regulation and a changing economy. Gregory Schneider chronicles the Rock Island’s painful decline and along the way reveals some of the key problems within the American railroad industry during the post–World War II era. Schneider takes readers back to a time when railroads still clung to a storied past to offer new insight into the devastating impact of economic policymaking during the 1960s and 1970s. Schneider recounts the largest railroad liquidation in American history—as well as one of the most successful reorganizations in American business—to depict the demise and ultimate collapse of Rock Island as part of a broader account of hard times in the railroad industry beginning in the 1970s. Schneider weaves a complex story of how business, politics, government bureaucracy, and individual greed helped to limit the economic possibilities of the railroad industry and catapult the Rock Island Railroad into oblivion. Weakened by a troubled economy, the Rock fell victim to inept management and labor union intransigence; but Schneider also reveals how government regulations and price controls prevented innovation, hindered capital acquisition, and favored other forms of transportation that lie beyond the scope of regulation. Railroads were even hurt by taxation of property and real estate while competitors were able to use government-subsidized highways and airports without having to pay taxes to fund them. Now that America has gone on to witness the collapse of such mammoth firms as Enron and Lehman Brothers, not to mention the bankruptcy and bailout of General Motors, the story of the Rock provides an instructive lesson in how a major American enterprise was allowed to fall victim to forces often beyond its control—while the bailout of the Penn Central, at the expense of smaller lines like Rock Island, helped initiate the era of “too big to fail.” For economic historians and railroad buffs alike, Rock Island Requiem is a well-researche
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Commerce Committee
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Financial Condition of the Rock Island Railroad, Hearing Before the Surface Transportation Subcommittee Of..., 94-1, Mar. 10, 1975 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Commerce Committee and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Financial Condition of the Rock Island Railroad written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
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Author : H. Roger Grant
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025304989X
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book A Mighty Fine Road written by H. Roger Grant and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad's history is one of big booms and bigger busts. When it became the first railroad to reach and then cross the Mississippi River in 1856, it emerged as a leading American railroad company. But after aggressive expansion and a subsequent change in management, the company struggled and eventually declared bankruptcy in 1915. What followed was a cycle of resurrections and bankruptcies; a grueling, ten-year, ultimately unsuccessful battle to merge with the Union Pacific; and the Rock Island's final liquidation in 1981. But today, long after its glory days and eventual demise, the "Mighty Fine Road" has left behind a living legacy of major and feeder lines throughout the country. In his latest work, railroad historian H. Roger Grant offers an accessible, gorgeously illustrated, and comprehensive history of this iconic American railroad.
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Total Pages : 998 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Rock Island Employes' Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
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Author : Dale Pierce
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312451386
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (124 download)
Download or read book Tales From The Rails written by Dale Pierce and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 556 pages
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Author : Alison Ley
Publisher : Nelson Thornes
ISBN 13 : 017427100X
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Sounds of Singing written by Alison Ley and published by Nelson Thornes. This book was released on 2003 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a singing course with songs and support for teachers, this programme enables development and regular practice of essential musical skills, focusing on the singing voice. It is flexible to be used as a self-contained singing course or as supplementary material to others schemes.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Railroad Bankruptcies written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 632 pages
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Total Pages : 208 pages
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Author : Lawrence Harold Larsen
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 080320602X
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Upstream Metropolis written by Lawrence Harold Larsen and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Being a man, like being a woman, is something you have to learn," Aaron Raz Link remarks. Few would know this better than the coauthor of What Becomes You , who began life as a girl named Sarah and twenty-nine years later began life anew as a gay man.
