Rock Island Requiem: The Collapse of a Mighty Fine Line

Chronicles the unraveling and demise of the mighty Rock Island Railroad--the largest railroad liquidation in American history. Victim of government regulation, inept management, individual greed, and self-interest, its downfall presents in microcosm the story of the railroad industry's larger problems in postwar America--and in relief, the story of America's economic failures in the 1960s and 1970s.

• | Author: Gregory L. Schneider
• | Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• | Publication Date: February 05, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 400 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0700629629
• | ISBN-13: 9780700629626