The men who loved trains
Subtitle: the story of men who battled greed to save an ailing industry
By: Rush Loving, Jr.
Series: Railroads past and present
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
Subjects: Railroads -- United States -- Biography.; Capitalists and financiers -- United States -- Biography.; Railroad companies -- United States -- History.
Genres: Biography.
Description: Annotation
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The Forrest Gump of railroading; title: Meeting the blue-eyed Jew from Minnesota; title: A cabal at the Greenbrier; title: The portly Virginia gentleman; title: An eleventh hour surprise; title: "Where the hell is Harrisburg?"; title: Cooking the books; title: "That telephone man"; title: The granddaddy of Enron; title: Some high society sex; title: "They are going to run out of cash"; title: The scandals unfold; title: Booted off the property; title: A school band on the railroad tracks; title: The unsinkable Chief Wawatam; title: Donning the mantle of Moses; title: Merging railroads over bourbon; title: Selling the shiny silver sphere; title: "God save me from the planners and thinkers!"; title: Son of Penn Central; title: "Why the hell do we need four tracks out here?"; title: Girding for battle; title: "We will fight with every means at our disposal"; title: John Snow, CEO; title: A catalog of blunders; title: "I think we want to be seen as somewhat crazy"; title: In the betrayal suite; title: The day the horse fell down.