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The Rock Island Line
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Author : Bill Marvel
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2013-10-01
The Rock Island Line written by Bill Marvel 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 2013-10-01 with Transportation categories.
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.
Rock Island Requiem
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Author : Gregory L. Schneider
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Release Date : 2020-02-05
Rock Island Requiem written by Gregory L. Schneider and has been published by University Press of Kansas this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-05 with Transportation categories.
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
Rock Island Line
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Author : David Rhodes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Rock Island Line written by David Rhodes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with City and town life categories.
Raised in an idyllic Iowa town, young July Montgomery is rocked by the tragic death of his parents. Fleeing to Philadelphia, he fashions a ghostly existence in an underground train station. When a young woman appears to free him from his malaise, they return together to the Iowa heartland, where the novel soars to its heartrending climax. First published to enormous acclaim in 1975, Rock Island Line brings Rhodes's striking characterizations and unparalleled eye for the telling detail to this tale of paradise lost - and possibly regained.
Reading My Arse
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Author : Ricky Tomlinson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-01
Reading My Arse written by Ricky Tomlinson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01 with Rock musicians categories.
Hot on the heels of the hugely popular books Football My Arse! and Celebrities My Arse!, comes an exciting, off-beat novel by Ricky Tomlinson, the much-loved comedy actor who doubles as a bestselling author. Inspired by Ricky's love of reading, it tells the thrilling story of one young man's quest to cross the Atlantic from Liverpool in search of the Rock Island Line, the legendary American railway, and follows the adventures that change his life for ever. Reading My Arse! is guaranteed to make you laugh and sigh, and want to keep listening...
Roots Radicals And Rockers
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Author : Billy Bragg
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2017-05-30
Roots Radicals And Rockers written by Billy Bragg and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-30 with Music categories.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZERoots, Radicals & Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World is the first book to explore this phenomenon in depth - a meticulously researched and joyous account that explains how skiffle sparked a revolution that shaped pop music as we have come to know it. It's a story of jazz pilgrims and blues blowers, Teddy Boys and beatnik girls, coffee-bar bohemians and refugees from the McCarthyite witch-hunts. Billy traces how the guitar came to the forefront of music in the UK and led directly to the British Invasion of the US charts in the 1960s.Emerging from the trad-jazz clubs of the early '50s, skiffle was adopted by kids who growing up during the dreary, post-war rationing years. These were Britain's first teenagers, looking for a music of their own in a pop culture dominated by crooners and mediated by a stuffy BBC. Lonnie Donegan hit the charts in 1956 with a version of 'Rock Island Line' and soon sales of guitars rocketed from 5,000 to 250,000 a year. Like punk rock that would flourish two decades later, skiffle was a do-it-yourself music. All you needed were three guitar chords and you could form a group, with mates playing tea-chest bass and washboard as a rhythm section.
The Rock Island Line
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Author : Michelle Dobbs
language : en
Publisher: Michelle Dobbs
Release Date : 2012-10-22
The Rock Island Line written by Michelle Dobbs and has been published by Michelle Dobbs this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-22 with Fiction categories.
Lilly Moore lives in a small town that is the first link of a railroad line that connects the Wild West to Chicago, and on to the Atlantic Ocean. She is learning, in the heart of the Moore clan, the unique responsibilities that they shoulder, both unwillingly and willingly for the good of the Rock Island line that is her family legacy. In finding peace with the settlers of the growing city and within herself, Lilly learns that love defies both color and class, and that families come in many packages.
A Mighty Fine Road
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Author : H. Roger Grant
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-06
A Mighty Fine Road written by H. Roger Grant 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 2020-10-06 with Transportation categories.
The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad's history is one of big booms and bigger busts. When it became the first railroad to reach and then cross the Mississippi River in 1856, it emerged as a leading American railroad company. But after aggressive expansion and a subsequent change in management, the company struggled and eventually declared bankruptcy in 1915. What followed was a cycle of resurrections and bankruptcies; a grueling, ten-year, ultimately unsuccessful battle to merge with the Union Pacific; and the Rock Island's final liquidation in 1981. But today, long after its glory days and eventual demise, the "Mighty Fine Road" has left behind a living legacy of major and feeder lines throughout the country. In his latest work, railroad historian H. Roger Grant offers an accessible, gorgeously illustrated, and comprehensive history of this iconic American railroad.
Rock Island Lines News Digest
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
Rock Island Lines News Digest written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with categories.
Rock Island Lines
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Author : Dean Klinkenberg
language : en
Publisher: Travel Passages
Release Date : 2019-12-01
Rock Island Lines written by Dean Klinkenberg and has been published by Travel Passages this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-01 with Fiction categories.
Frank Dodge, disgruntled and desperate for a story to write about, has a hot tip: Miguel Ramirez could be one of the last surviving descendants of a brutal gangster named John Looney. Dodge sees this as a good story to sell, so he concocts a plan to meet the young man. When Ramirez is found floating in the Mississippi River, Dodge finds himself without a story and on the wrong side of a murder investigation. As Dodge and his buddy, homicide detective Brian Jefferson, go over the surprising events of the night Ramirez died, clues about the death of Ramirez will come from an unlikely source: the life of John Looney.
Forty Five Years On The Rock Island Line
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Author : Tom Foster
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
Forty Five Years On The Rock Island Line written by Tom Foster and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Railroads categories.