Download or read book Reorganization of the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company written by Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railway Company and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Re Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reorganization of the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Re Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company written by and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings for Reorganization in the Matter of the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company written by Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company and published by . This book was released on 1937* with total page 1267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Re Chicago Rock Island Pacific Railroad Company written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plan of Reorganization for Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company written by William M. Gibbons and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book In Re Chicago Rock Island Pacific Railway Company written by and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company written by United States. Interstate Commerce Commission and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Mighty Fine Road written by H. Roger Grant and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Grant has once again hit a home run . . . a detailed but readable history of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, a major Midwestern railroad.” —Carlos A. Schwantes, St. Louis Mercantile Library Professor Emeritus 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. “This handsome, well-illustrated book merits the attention of any reader interested in the history of Iowa. And just as important, the book reminds us of the importance of railroads to the history and vitality of American society. All aboard!” —Iowa City Press-Citizen “A Mighty Fine Road lays out the amazing, yet heartbreaking history of the railroad I loved. The historical opportunities and disappointments of the Rock Island is clearly explained in Grant’s book, with visionaries keeping the dream moving forward, yet damaged and constrained by greed and lack of vision with the next management regime.” —Dan Sabin, President, Iowa Northern Railway Company
Download or read book In Re Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company written by and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Annual Report of the Directors to the Stockholders of the Chicago Rock Island Pacific Railway Company written by Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railway Company and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railroad Reorganization written by Stuart Daggett and published by Boston : Houghton, Mifflin. This book was released on 1908 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bibliographical note": p. [387]-393.
Download or read book Rock Island Requiem written by Gregory L. Schneider and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2020-02-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Annual Report of the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company written by Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railway Company and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
