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Author : Thomas R. Lee
Publisher : Lee Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780916244040
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Rock Island Westward written by Thomas R. Lee and published by Lee Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas R. Lee
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Rock Island Westward: Memories of the high line, a history of the Clay Center Line written by Thomas R. Lee and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas R. Lee
Publisher : Lee Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780916244040
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Rock Island Westward written by Thomas R. Lee and published by Lee Publications. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rock Island Plow Company
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (139 download)
Download or read book "The Rock Island Line" of Rock Island and Great Western Farm Implements and Machinery. 1913-1914 written by Rock Island Plow Company and published by . This book was released on 1913* with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Rock Island Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bill Marvel
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253011310
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The Rock Island Line written by Bill Marvel and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the rich history of the legendary railroad that spanned the American Midwest in this beautifully illustrated volume. Beginning operations in the mid-nineteenth century, the Rock Island Line served farms and small-town America for more than 140 years. One of the earliest railroads to build westward from Chicago, it was the first to span the Mississippi, advancing the frontier, bringing settlers into the West, and hauling their crops to market. Rock Island’s celebrated Rocket passenger trains also set a standard for speed and service, with suburban runs as familiar to Windy City commuters as the Loop. For most of its existence, the Rock battled competitors much larger and richer than itself. When it finally succumbed, the result was one of the largest business bankruptcies ever. Today, as its engines and stock travel the busy main lines operated by other carriers, the Rock Island Line lives on in the hearts of those whom it employed and served.
Author : Greg Stout
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781582481876
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (818 download)
Download or read book Rock Island Trackside, 1960-1980 written by Greg Stout and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert S. Farnsworth
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480927074
Total Pages : 727 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Grand Western Railroad Game written by Robert S. Farnsworth and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-11 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grand Western Railroad Game By: Robert S. Farnsworth The Grand Western Railroad Game by Robert S. Farnsworth is a fascinatingly detailed story of the historical importance of Western railroads. It has been meticulously written to educate the reader on the intricacies involved in the creation and growth of the Rock Island System over the “Empire Years.” The railroad’s premium passenger train service even inspired the popular song “The Rock Island Line is a Mighty Fine Line.” To quote the author, “I wrote this book, not from just the viewpoint of a rail fan, hundreds of whom have diligently photographically documented the railroad’s passage through time, but from the viewpoint of a former employee and from the insights gained from a broad education in both the university and in the experience of a practiced transportation planner. I hope that the reader will learn from the stories told here that the workers tried valiantly to do their jobs, that the line’s managers were forced to play with the hand that was dealt to them from a less than full deck, and that investors expected to get a reasonable return on the often gigantic sums paid into the corporation. “I hope that the information contained within these covers leads others toward more detailed studies of the railroads and of the conditions in which they survived, if not prospered.”
Author : A. Phillips & Co
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Phillips' Rock Island Excursions to California, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, and All Western Points Via the Denver & Rio Grande R.R. written by A. Phillips & Co and published by . This book was released on 18?? with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael M. Bartels
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780942035520
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (355 download)
Download or read book Rock Island Town written by Michael M. Bartels and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chicago and North Western Railway Company
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (64 download)
Download or read book The Proposed Rock Island Mergers written by Chicago and North Western Railway Company and published by . This book was released on 1965* with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Re Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : Michael E. Hibblen
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467125385
Total Pages : 1 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Rock Island Railroad in Arkansas written by Michael E. Hibblen and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly 80 years, the Rock Island was a major railroad in Arkansas providing passenger and freight services. A decline in rail travel after World War II and an increase in trucks hauling freight over government-subsidized interstates were among factors that left the railroad struggling. Efforts to merge with other railroads were stalled for years by federal regulators. The Rock Island filed for bankruptcy in 1975 and attempted a reorganization, but creditors wanted the assets liquidated, with a judge shutting it down in 1980. Most of the tracks that traversed the state were taken up, but a few relics, like the Little Rock passenger station and the Arkansas River bridge, remain as monuments to this once great railroad.
Author : Steve Urie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615661827
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (618 download)
Download or read book Rock Island written by Steve Urie and published by . This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rock Island: An American History is the entertainingly unvarnished history of the United States. History books tend to be boring, Rock Island isn't. It's a delightful history of the Native Americans who first settled on the scenic bluffs at the confluence of the Mississippi and Rock Rivers and of the white men who fought for the Indians' lands and built one of America's prototypical cities on the rivers' edge. Through Rock Island's 340 year history, since Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet were the first white men to walk the rivers' banks until the information age, Rock Island tells the heroic, amusing, and ruthless stories of those who immigrated to America and how history's greatest nation was built. Rock Island is the fascinating history of America's patriots and villains, and how "the land of the free and the home of the brave" was won, stolen, and settled. It's a history that won't be found in student textbooks but is for all Americans, whether your ancestors arrived on the Mayflower or in the hold of a slave ship.
Download or read book Brown V. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Company written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Excursions Extraordinary written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
