The Rebirth of the Missouri Pacific, 1956-1983

By H. Craig Miner

Book Overview

In 1956, the era of tail-finned cars and nineteen-cents-a-gallon gasoline, the Missouri Pacific Railroad emerged on 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 flamboyant maneuvers of the railroad's overseers. In its future lay two computerized, merger-dominated decades in which the railroad business would serve as a classic example of a tradition-bound industry forced to adapt to "future shock." The transition from crippled line to prime property would become, as one politician later put it, "a lawyers' paradise, and a security-holders' nightmare."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1585440485
• ISBN13: 9781585440481
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"