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Riding the Rails : Inside the Business of America's Railroads / Robert D. Krebs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Krebs, Robert D., 1942- author.
- Series:
- Railroads past and present
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Railroads and state--United States.
- Railroads and state.
- Railroads--United States--Management.
- Railroads.
- Executives--United States--Biography.
- Executives.
- Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
- Krebs, Robert D., 1942-.
- Krebs, Robert D.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- Riding the Rails: Inside the Business of America's Railroads details Krebs's rise to a position of influence in the recovery of America's railroads and offers a unique insider's view into the boardrooms where executives and businessmen reimagined transportation in the United States.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- 1 The Making of a Railroader
- 2 Breaking In, Breaking Bones
- 3 The Apprentice
- 4 Blue Streak Nights
- 5 A Railroad of My Own
- 6 My Time in Purgatory
- 7 The Big Texas Thicket
- 8 The Merger That Wasn't
- 9 The Fight for Santa Fe Southern Pacific
- 10 Just a Railroad Again
- 11 Santa Fe's Grand Finale
- 12 The Tumultuous Birth of BNSF
- 13 We Become Our Own Railroad
- 14 Building the Super Railroad
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780253031877
- 0253031877
- OCLC:
- 989520302
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