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Cargando... Twilight of the Great Trainspor Fred W. Frailey
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. It is interesting how one's view of a given book can change in four years. This time this book really saddens me. It is breathtaking to read how a major American industry plummeted in barely a decade from a position of desperate need (the war years) to one of near abhorrence. There is room for a lot of shoulda, coulda, woulda on the part of the industry's leaders. But these leaders went from being people everyone wanted to see to folks no one wanted to see. The leaders were just not capable of seeing a vastly changed nation with the people not in the least thankful for what the industry had done just years earlier. Sadly, the leaders panicked which led to a disintegration of a worn out plant. There hasn't been anything else quite like it; we can hope there will never be a repeat. ( ) This is a tightly woven story of the fall of the railroad owned passenger trains in the US from 1950 to the dawn of Amtrak in 191. There are many detailed graphs on how the railroads attempted to cut costs; yet, trying to continue the trains. Don't look for numbers in the graphs but how the railroads shuffled cars between several trains to keep service. There is a wealth of data in this volume. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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In the years following World War II, a potent combination of new prosperity, a renewed love affair with the automobile, improved highways, and the availability of commercial air travel contributed to the dwindling number of rail travelers. By the 1960s, rail passenger service had become an endangered species in an unfriendly environment. Fred W. Frailey recounts the demise of the pre-Amtrak passenger train in Twilight of the Great Trains. Drawing upon a lifetime of experience as a reporter and editor, Frailey uncovers the reasons behind the disappearance of these great trains and explains how 11 railroad systems withstood or welcomed, fought or embraced the inevitable decline of their passenger services. Stimulating and informative, this book offers a behind-the-scenes look at one of the most challenging eras in American railroad history. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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