Rock Island Requiem – The Collapse of a Mighty Fine Line Schneider Paperback

Rock Island RequiemThe Collapse of a Mighty Fine Line\nAuthor(s): Gregory L. Schneider\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University Press of Kansas, United States\nImprint: University Press of Kansas\nISBN-13: 9780700629626, 978-0700629626\nSynopsis\nGeorge H. and Constance M. Hilton Book Award\n\nCelebrated 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. \n\nSchneider 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 .