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Union Pacific
The Reconfiguration; America's Greatest Railroad from 1969 to the Present
By Klein, Maury
- ISBN
- 978-0-19536-989-2
- Publisher
- Oxford Univ.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on June 15, 2011
This final volume of Klein's three-volume chronicle of the Union Pacific (UP) Railroad (Union Pacific 1862–1893; Union Pacific 1894–1969) traces the evolution of the company and the American railroad industry from 1969 to the present. Klein (history, Univ. of Rhode Island), a Pulitzer Prize finalist for The Life and Legend of Jay Gould, describes the 1969 railroad environment as being overbuilt, highly regulated, increasingly competitiv...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
