The wreck of the Penn Central
By: by Joseph R. Daughen and Peter Binzen.
Contributors: Binzen, Peter, joint author.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 1971
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
Subjects: Pennsylvania Central Transportation Company
Description: It took ten years of laborious planning and exhaustive negotiations to create the mammoth Penn Central Railroad, the largest railroad in United States history. When the leviathan was finally born of a merger between the Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroads on February 1, 1968, the event was hailed as a great day for railroading. But the baby giant survived only 367 days. The crash of the Penn Central set a new record, this time for the largest bankruptcy the United States had ever seen.
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Includes bibliographical references.