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Riding the rails : inside the business of America's railroads / Robert D. Krebs.
Lippincott Library HE2754.K74 A3 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Krebs, Robert D., 1942- author.
- Series:
- Railroads past and present
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Krebs, Robert D., 1942-.
- Krebs, Robert D.
- Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
- Executives--United States--Biography.
- Executives.
- United States.
- Railroads--United States--Management.
- Railroads.
- Management.
- Railroads and state--United States.
- Railroads and state.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 134 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2018]
- Contents:
- Prologue
- The making of a railroader
- Breaking in, breaking bones
- The apprentice
- Blue streak nights
- A railroad of my own
- My time in purgatory
- The big Texas thicket
- The merger that wasn't
- The fight for Santa Fe Southern Pacific
- Just a railroad again
- Santa Fe's grand finale
- The tumultuous birth of BNSF
- We become our own railroad
- Building the super railroad
- Epilogue.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Krebs, Robert D., 1942- Riding the rails.
- ISBN:
- 9780253031860
- 0253031869
- OCLC:
- 987041799
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