The Wreck of the Penn Central

Joseph R. Daughen

ISBN 10: 1893122085 / ISBN 13: 9781893122086

Published by Beard Books Feb 1999, 1999

About this Item

Neuware - 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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Wreck of the Penn Central
• Publisher: Beard Books Feb 1999
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1893122085
• ISBN 13: 9781893122086
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 216W x 141H x 30D millimeters 216 millimeters width by 141 millimeters height by 30 millimeters depth
• Weight: 475 grams

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Synopsis

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.

"The Wreck of the Penn Central" provides a close-up view of the events that brought the Big Train to bankruptcy court--over-regulation, subsidized competition, big labor featherbedding, greed, corporate back-stabbing, stunning incompetence, and, yes, even a little sex.

About the Author

Co-authors Joseph R. Daughen and Peter Binzen are professional journalists of many years experience and have written for several newspapers. Currently their bylines can be found in The Philadelphia Daily News and the Philadelphia Inquirer, respectively, where they have been since 1982. A successful writing team, Daughen and Binzen also co-authored The Cop Who Would be King.