Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface TransportationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroad law
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Rock Island Transition Act
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface TransportationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroad law
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Rock Island Requiem
Author: Gregory L. SchneiderPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700629629
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
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
Milwaukee Railroad and Rock Island Railroad Amendments Act
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and TransportationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroad law
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The RRB Quarterly Review
Author: United States. Railroad Retirement BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
The RRB Quarterly Review
Author: In Re Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company
Author: Compilation of Selected Acts Within the Jurisdiction of the Committee on Energy and Commerce
Author: United StatesStaggers Rail Act of 1980
Author: United States. Congress HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroad law
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
United States Statutes at Large
Author: United StatesRail Issues
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation, and TourismPublisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description