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The Penn Central And Other Railroads
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Special Staff for the Penn Central Enquiry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
The Penn Central And Other Railroads written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Special Staff for the Penn Central Enquiry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Railroads and state categories.
The Penn Central And Other Railroads
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
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The Wreck Of The Penn Central
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Author : Joseph R. Daughen
language : en
Publisher: Beard Books
Release Date : 1999
The Wreck Of The Penn Central written by Joseph R. Daughen and has been published by Beard Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Business & Economics categories.
It took ten years of laborious planning and exhaustive negotiations to create the mammoth Penn Central Railroad, the largest railroad in United States history. When the leviathan was finally born of a merger between the Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroads on February 1, 1968, the event was hailed as a great day for railroading. But the baby giant survived only 367 days. The crash of the Penn Central set a new record, this time for the largest bankruptcy the United States had ever seen. "The Wreck of the Penn Central" provides a close-up view of the events that brought the Big Train to bankruptcy court--over-regulation, subsidized competition, big labor featherbedding, greed, corporate back-stabbing, stunning incompetence, and, yes, even a little sex.
Predecessors Of Conrail
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Author : Source Wikipedia
language : en
Publisher: University-Press.org
Release Date : 2013-09
Predecessors Of Conrail written by Source Wikipedia and has been published by University-Press.org this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with categories.
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 56. Chapters: Penn Central Transportation Company, Pennsylvania Railroad, New York Central Railroad, Lehigh Valley Railroad, Reading Company, New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, Raritan River Railroad, Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines, Erie Railroad, Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, Erie Lackawanna Railway, Ironton Railroad, Central Railroad of New Jersey, Monongahela Railway, Lehigh and Hudson River Railway, New York Connecting Railroad, Ann Arbor Railroad, New York and Long Branch Railroad. Excerpt: The Pennsylvania Railroad (reporting mark PRR) was an American Class I railroad, founded in 1846. Commonly referred to as the "Pennsy," the PRR was headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The PRR was the largest railroad by traffic and revenue in the U.S. for the first half of the twentieth century and was at one time the largest publicly traded corporation in the world. At its peak it controlled about 10,000 miles (16,000 km) of rail line; in the 1920s it carried about three times the traffic (measured by ton-miles of freight) as other railroads of comparable length, such as Union Pacific or Santa Fe. The only rival was New York Central, which carried around three-quarters of PRR's ton-miles. During its history the PRR merged with or had an interest in at least 800 other rail lines and companies. The corporation still holds the record for the longest continuous dividend history: it paid out annual dividends to shareholders for more than 100 years in a row. At one point the budget for the PRR was larger than that of the U.S. government; at its peak it employed about 250,000 workers. In 1968 the Pennsylvania Railroad merged with its rival, the New York Central Railroad, to form the Penn Central Transportation Company. The Interstate Commerce Commission required that the ailing New York, New Haven and...
Penn Central Railroad
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Author : Peter E. Lynch
language : en
Publisher: Motorbooks International
Release Date : 2004
Penn Central Railroad written by Peter E. Lynch and has been published by Motorbooks International this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Transportation categories.
In describing Penn Central's operational history and the factors that led to its formation and downfall, author and former PC employee Peter Lynch offers a collection of the best Penn Central color imagery from the archives of photographers Thomas McNamara, J. W. Swanberg, David P. Oroszi, and others. These region-by-region collections depict freight and passenger operations, motive power, rolling stock, and facilities along 20,000 miles of trackage in states from New England to Illinois.
The Penn Central And Other Railroads
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Author : Warren G. Magnuson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
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Branch Line Empires
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Author : Michael Bezilla
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2017-11-06
Branch Line Empires written by Michael Bezilla and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-06 with Transportation categories.
The saga of a fierce business rivalry: “Absorbing, well-written . . . will appeal to American history scholars and railroad enthusiasts.” —Choice The Pennsylvania and the New York Central railroads helped to develop central Pennsylvania as the largest source of bituminous coal for the nation. By the late nineteenth century, the two lines were among America’s largest businesses and would soon become legendary archrivals. The PRR first arrived in the 1860s. Within a few years, it was sourcing as much as four million tons of coal annually from Centre County and the Moshannon Valley and would continue do so for a quarter-century. The New York Central, through its Beech Creek Railroad affiliate, invaded the region in the 1880s, first seeking a dependable, long-term source of coal to fuel its locomotives but soon aggressively attempting to break its rival’s lock on transporting the area’s immense wealth of mineral and forest products. Beginning around 1900, the two companies transitioned from an era of growth and competition to a time when each tacitly recognized the other’s domain and sought to achieve maximum operating efficiencies by adopting new technology such as air brakes, automatic couplers, all-steel cars, and diesel locomotives. Over the next few decades, each line began to face common problems in the form of competition from other forms of transportation and government regulation—and in 1968, the two businesses merged. Branch Line Empires offers a thorough and captivating analysis of how a changing world turned competition into cooperation between two railroad industry titans. Includes photographs
The Penn Central And Other Railroads
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Author : Warren G. Magnuson
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2018-03-20
The Penn Central And Other Railroads written by Warren G. Magnuson and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-20 with Reference categories.
Excerpt from The Penn Central and Other Railroads: A Report to the Senate Committee on Commerce Ratio of income available for fixed charges to fixed charges; Pennsylvania and New York Central, 1948 - 67. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A Sampling Of Penn Central
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Author : Jerry Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2000
A Sampling Of Penn Central written by Jerry Taylor and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Railroads categories.
The Penn Central existed only from the New York Central-Pennsylvania merger in 1968, until the formation of Conrail in 1976. This book fills an information void with its 208 wonderful photographs taken between 1970 and 1972. The photos, with their detailed captions, portray the 5,000-plus miles of PC's Southern Region.
No Way To Run A Railroad
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Author : Stephen Salsbury
language : en
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Release Date : 1982
No Way To Run A Railroad written by Stephen Salsbury and has been published by McGraw-Hill Companies this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Business & Economics categories.