1. Ambiguous Legacy Of The Era Of Reform: 1893-1920 -- Last Spike At Stevens Pass, 1893 -- Northern Securities Case -- Last Additions To The North American Railroad Network -- Accountability Through Trustbusting -- Accountability Through Regulation -- Government Operation In World War I -- Weak Road-strong Road Problem -- Plumb Plan -- Esch-cummins, The Transportation Act Of 1920 -- 2. Legacy Of The Transportation Act Of 1920: 1920-1940 -- Four Powers Of The East -- Shopmen's Strike Of 1922 -- Fifth Systems And The Scramble Of 1929 -- Final Plan -- Prince Plan And The Washington Agreement -- Railway Labor Act And The Electro-motive Ft -- Dc-3 And The Pennsylvania Turnpike -- Railroads At War -- 3. Dead Ends With Pennroad And Robert R. Young: 1940-1954 -- Pennsylvania Railroad And Pennroad -- Robert Young Comes To Alleghany -- Alleghany Merger That Never Was -- C&o, The Nickel Plate, And The Schwabacher Ruling -- Lackawanna-nickel Plate: What Might Have Been -- Robert Young And The New York Central -- New York Central Proxy Fight -- 4. Troubles: 1945-1964 -- Golden Glow Years, 1945-1955 -- Who Shot The Passenger Train? -- Crying Towel Years -- Two Faces Of The Crying Towel: Deramus And Barriger -- Abandonment -- Transportation Act Of 1958 -- Window On A Troubled Time -- 5. Solutions: 1947-1964 -- Piggyback -- Merger Panacea -- Gulf, Mobile & Ohio -- Labor: The New Orleans Conditions, 1948-1952 -- Florida East Coast, 1954 -- Legal Prerequisites -- Minneapolis & St. Louis, 1957 -- Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis, 1957 -- Merger Talk -- First Announcement Of The Penn Central -- Virginian Railway, 1959 -- Warnings On The Eve -- Firemen On The Diesel -- 6. Erie Lackawanna: The Agony Of The Perfect Merger, 1960 -- Two Traditions -- Coordination -- Merger Is Negotiated -- Proceedings -- Merger -- William White -- 7. Chessie System And The Norfolk & Western: 1961-1964 -- B&o Proxy Fight -- Lehigh Valley -- C&o-b&o Case -- N&w-nickel Plate-wabash -- Robert Kennedy And The Justice Department -- 8. West: 1960-1962 -- Southern Pacific-western Pacific -- Concept Of The Burlington Northern -- 9. Kennedy, The Kefauver Hearings, And The Icc -- Kefauver Hearings -- B&o And The Cuban Missile Crisis -- Divestiture Of The N&w -- 10. Rise Of The Penn Central -- Looming Crisis In New England -- New Haven Passenger Discontinuance Case -- Symes, Saunders, And The Culture Of The Pennsylvania Railroad -- Perlman And The New York Central -- Concept Of The Penn Central -- Saunders Deals For His Merger -- M-day -- April 27, 1966 -- 11. South: 1960-1972 -- Seaboard Coast Line -- Strike On The Florida East Coast -- Bill Brosnan And The Southern Railway -- Central Of Georgia Fiasco -- Mopac And The Chicago & Eastern Illinois -- Illinois Central Gulf -- L&n-monon -- 12. Stalemate In The West: 1963-1970 -- Ben Heineman And The Chicago & North Western -- Union Pacific's Choice -- Rock Island -- Chicago Great Western -- Burlington Northern -- Chicago, Milwaukee & North Western -- Black Hole Of The Great Rock Island Case -- Klitenic Plan -- 13. Eastern Inclusion Crisis: 1966-1968 -- Bison Yard And The Erie Debt -- Chessie's Orphans -- John Fishwick And The N&w-c&o -- On The Dereco Roads -- Inclusion Cases -- Pennsylvania-new York Central Transportation Company -- 14. Fall Of The Penn Central: 1968-1970 -- Trouble Spots: Selkirk And Big Four -- Unhappy Customers And Connections -- Don't Blame It On Computers -- Don't Blame It On Labor -- Red Team And The Green Team -- Pitfalls Of Diversification -- Earnings Maximization And Imaginative Accounting -- Debacle -- Midnight Hour -- 15. Turning Point: 1970 -- Defining Moment -- Epilogue For The Old Penn Central Gang. Richard Saunders, Jr. Rev. Ed. Of: The Railroad Mergers And The Coming Of Conrail. 1978. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [449]-458) And Index.

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