The Rebirth of the Missouri Pacific, 1956-1983

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In 1956, the era of tail-finned cars and nineteen-cents-a-gallon gasoline, the Missouri Pacific Railroad emerged at the corporate scene as a private company after twenty-three years in a receivership. In its past lay a collapsed rail empire, a sensational bankruptcy struggle that shattered dreams and betrayed trusts, an emotional battle over stockholders’ interests, and the flowery maneuvers of the railroad’s overseers. In its future lay two computerized, merger-dominated decades through which the railroad business would serve as a classic example of a tradition-bound industry forced to conform to “future shock.” The transition from crippled line to prime property would develop into, as one politician later put it, “a lawyers’ paradise, and a security-holders’ nightmare.”

H. Craig Miner, the use of a wealth of oral and written number one sources, with the cooperation of the corporate and complete get admission to to records and group of workers, describes and critically analyzes, the physical and financial revolution of the Missouri Pacific.

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