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Author:
Krebs, Robert D., 1942- author.
Title:
Riding the rails : inside the business of America's railroads / Robert D. Krebs.
Publisher:
Indiana University Press,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
viii, 134 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Krebs, Robert D.,--1942-
Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
Executives--United States--Biography.
Railroads--United States--Management.
Railroads and state--United States.
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.
Series:
Railroads past and present
ISBN:
0253031869
9780253031860
OCLC:
(OCoLC)987041799
LCCN:
2017015152
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Des Moines)

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