Richard Saunders 1st edit/1 print The Railroad Mergers and the Coming of Conrail 1978 [Hardcover] Saunders, Richard [Hardcover] Saunders, Richard

by Richard Saunders

TABLE OF * List of Maps * List of Tables 1.) The Problem and the Idea; 1904-1920 -- 2.) The Legacy of the Transportation Act of 1920 in the East; 1920-1940 -- 3.) Dead Ends under the Transportation Act of 1940; 1940-1954 -- 4.) Consolidation Is the Panacea; 1954-1960 -- 5.) Erie Lackawanna, the Ideal Merger that Didnâ€t Work; 1960 -- 6.) Chessie and Norfolk & Western Restructure the East; 1961 -- 7.) Preliminary Moves in the West; 1960-1962 -- 8.) Congress Listens and the Commission Acts; 1962-1964 -- 9.) The Rise of Penn Central; 1961-1966 -- 10.) The Emergence of Four Southern Giants; 1960-1976 -- 11.) Stalemate in the West; 1963-1976 -- 12.) The Eastern Inclusion Crisis; 1966-1968 -- 13.) The Fall of the Penn Central; 1968-1970 -- 14.) The Coming of Conrail; 1970-1976 -- 15.) The Railroad Mergers -- * NOTES -- * BIBLIOGRAPHY -- * INDEX

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First published October 1, 1978