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March, 2006
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Rebirth of the North American Railroads, 1970–2002

By Richard Saunders, Jr.
(DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003. Pp. xxi, 436. Maps, tables, notes, works cited, index. $49.95.)

Richard Saunders, Jr., calls this volume "the first that I know of to cover this material in a systematic way, a kind of first draft of history" (p. xii). Intended as a sequel to his earlier Merging Lines: The American Railroads, 1900–1970 (2001), this work provides an extraordinarily detailed and insightful look at the complex and profound reconfiguration of American railroads since the Penn Central debacle. During these thirty years the once-crowded ranks of major railroads, each with its own proud name and heritage, boiled down into four American and two Canadian mega-systems surrounded by coveys of smaller lines. In the process the nature as well as the structure of railroading underwent profound changes. . . .
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