Riding the Rails - Inside the Business of America''s Railroads

Informationen zum Autor Robert D. Krebs spent his career as a railway executive. He is the former CEO and chairman of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway. Klappentext When Robert D. Krebs joined the ranks of Southern Pacific Railroad in 1966, the industry had been in decline for decades, and the future of trains was in peril. Despite these obstacles, Krebs fell in love with the rugged, competitive business of railroads and was determined to overcome its resistance to change and put rail transportation back on track. By the age of 40, Krebs was president of the Southern Pacific Railroad and had also served as chief executive of both the Santa Fe Railway and Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway companies. Riding the Rails: Inside the Business of America's Railroads details Krebs's rise to a position of influence in the recovery of America's railroads and offers a unique insider's view into the boardrooms where executives and businessmen reimagined transportation in the United States. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgments Prologue 1. The Making of a Railroader 2. Breaking In, Breaking Bones 3. The Apprentice 4. Blue Streak Nights 5. A Railroad of My Own 6. My Time in Purgatory 7. The Big Texas Thicket 8. The Merger That Wasn't 9. The Fight for Santa Fe Southern Pacific 10. Just a Railroad Again 11. Santa Fe's Grand Finale 12. The Tumultuous Birth of BNSF 13. We Become Our Own Railroad 14. Building the Super Railroad Epilogue

Product details

• Authors: Robert Krebs, Robert D Krebs, Robert D. Krebs
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9780253031860
• ISBN: 978-0-253-03186-0
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Railroads Past and Present; Railroads Past and Present; Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Rail vehicles; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Züge und Eisenbahnen: Sachbuch, TRANSPORTATION / Railroads / History, Transportation